Nintendo Switch 2 fan notices musical Super Mario Bros Easter egg in reveal trailer, indicating just how badly everyone needs more details about the new console

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This sort of, kind of sounds like something, right?

A screenshot of Mario Kart 9, shown during the Switch 2 reveal trailer.
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Spanish Twitch streamer and pianist Elesky seems to have found a buried Super Mario Bros. Easter egg in the Nintendo Switch 2's reveal trailer – you just have to slow it down, reverse it, and listen with all your might.

"Have you heard these references in the Nintendo Switch 2 trailer?" Elesky says in a recent video, according to our translation with help from DeepL. "[Nintendo] showed us a little bit of music, and at the beginning of the trailer, this is what happened." Elesky plays a snippet of the Switch 2 trailer, where what sounds like a marimba trills.

But Elesky wonders if the missing G could be a secret, too. She notices that the Switch 2 trailer includes the sound of a piano key being hit in reverse, so she reverses it again, and finds a sparkly C major chord – the notes C, E, and G. After, the Switch 2 clicks into place in a G-like way.

What do you think – is the Super Mario theme camouflaged by the clacks, snaps, and happy flourishes of the Nintendo Switch 2 trailer? Personally, I believe Nintendo needs to give us all some more to work with.

Ashley Bardhan
Ashley Bardhan
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Ashley is a Senior Writer at GamesRadar+. She's been a staff writer at Kotaku and Inverse, too, and she's written freelance pieces about horror and women in games for sites like Rolling Stone, Vulture, IGN, and Polygon. When she's not covering gaming news, she's usually working on expanding her doll collection while watching Saw movies one through 11.