And what I meant is, that its obvious, that this thing only has an IR camera in it, which does record light in the same wavelength spectrum, you'd be interested, in to do thermal imaging - if your baseline is room temperature.
Take the camera. Put it close to your face, or another warm object. It shows it bright and blown out - without external light in the room.
Or the other way around - it doesnt take a genius to extrapolate that Nintendo is probably not doing low light amplification, because by then they would produce professional night vision devices for 15k USD a pop.
You can also read the wikipedia Article about nightvision and count how often "infrared" can be found in there:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_vision_device
Or guesstimate how much this statement makes sense to you "any manufacturer of consumer goods in this age is just visiting chinese manufacturing lines, and ticking off boxes on a pre-existing sheet of paper, regarding that factory lines usual capabilities, and in the end "their" product comes out".
Likelyhood of N shoving a cheep sensor in there to enable "creative use cases": 100%
Likelyhood of this being anything else than a cheap 3-5 USD implementation of a CMOS sensor without an IR filter: 0%
(On the other hand, ... those marketing folks sound so trustworthy..
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I'd say every tech journalist should know that. But what do I know..