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Just a little thing:
The fact that stuff leaked from GamesCom last year, wasn't actually the fault of the fair or it's organizers.
It's Nintendo that set up those "show off" meetings in the closed-off business area, Nintendo made the appointments with the devs / pubs that took part, it's on Nintendo to have them sign a NDA (which they very likely did).
But neither Nintendo, and especially not anyone responsible for organizing GamesCom, can prevent devs talking to each other and some devs passing info to journalists.
Of course they weren't happy that things got leaked, but that's the danger zone you enter when you open up info access to more and more people.
If anything, they likely just decided that the remainig games on this years release calendar don't justify the cost of setting up a 6 day (1 day media / business, 5 days fully open) booth. And due to the rumored delay there's no need to have anymore behind-closed-doors schedules for Switch 2. They got the message to devs and pubs with last years presentation, anything further you just contact them directly or apply for devkits.
The fact that stuff leaked from GamesCom last year, wasn't actually the fault of the fair or it's organizers.
It's Nintendo that set up those "show off" meetings in the closed-off business area, Nintendo made the appointments with the devs / pubs that took part, it's on Nintendo to have them sign a NDA (which they very likely did).
But neither Nintendo, and especially not anyone responsible for organizing GamesCom, can prevent devs talking to each other and some devs passing info to journalists.
Of course they weren't happy that things got leaked, but that's the danger zone you enter when you open up info access to more and more people.
If anything, they likely just decided that the remainig games on this years release calendar don't justify the cost of setting up a 6 day (1 day media / business, 5 days fully open) booth. And due to the rumored delay there's no need to have anymore behind-closed-doors schedules for Switch 2. They got the message to devs and pubs with last years presentation, anything further you just contact them directly or apply for devkits.