When players used the Joy-Con to do Iwata’s Nintendo Direct sign-off gesture on July 11th, the game would boot up and be playable using motion controls. The specifics surrounding the game, and the fact that it was one of Iwata’s, made the Easter Egg seem like an intentional tribute to the late Nintendo icon. However, Nintendo refused to comment on the topic, and was especially cagey about the subject during an interview with Kotaku back in autumn.

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Even then, the game could only be accessed on older versions of the Switch, an indication that Nintendo had not planned for it to be accessible yet or possibly at all. This latest discovery seems like the logical conclusion of that position, with the company effectively scrubbing Flog from the console entirely.

We’ve reached out to Nintendo for comment.