The actual Nintendo Switch will not have the M.C. Escher-esque screen-hovering technology shown in the trailer. (credit: RealShigeruM / Twitter)

Amid all the excitement over the actual hardware features (both obvious and not-so-obvious) shown in last week’s Nintendo Switch trailer, the small glimpses of new Nintendo software generated a fair bit of interest themselves. That interest was so intense, in fact, that GameXplain felt the need to create an 11-minute analysis video based on six total seconds of Super Mario footage in the trailer. (As the kind of guy who made his own Mario fansite as a teenager, I found it fascinating.)

Maybe we all shouldn’t have gotten too excited about those games, however. Nintendo is now clarifying that users “shouldn’t assume what you saw on the video represents actual game footage and further specifics on first-party games will be provided later.”

That statement comes from a Nintendo UK spokesperson speaking to Eurogamer about the trailer’s production. The trailer itself did warn at the end that “game footage not final; graphics and features subject to change.” Still, the spokesperson’s statement is a much more direct suggestion that the pre-rendered footage in the trailer is more a proof of concept than a direct demonstrations of the Switch’s hardware power (or software design).