The reveal comes from X user @ChrisMack32, who posted a video showing them unplugging a Super Nintendo controller – connected via USB – at one of the Nintendo Museum’s booths. Removing the cable from the controller results in what sounds like the familiar noise that plays when a Windows device is disconnected. If you listen carefully, you can also hear the Windows ‘device connect’ sound when the controller is plugged back in.
Yeah, it’s definitely a weird case of perception rejecting nuance. Nintendo accosting third party emulators (which sucks, for the record) is in no way inconsistent with them having in-house emulators.
Now if somebody showed those PCs running off-the-shelf open emus that’d be a different story, but the narrative is what it is regardless, it seems.