Here’s The Nintendo Switch 2

Nintendo shared nan first specifications astir nan Nintendo Switch 2 successful a video published Thursday. Nintendo doesn’t springiness a circumstantial merchandise time for nan console excessively “2025.”

The console looks a batch for illustration nan original, but it’s bigger. In nan video, nan Joy-Con controllers are achromatic pinch colored accents, and they link to nan broadside of nan console alternatively of sliding connected and off. There’s a caller fastener nether nan location fastener connected nan correct Joy-Con, which had shown up successful leaks. The video too appears to show nan Joy-Cons being utilized likewise to a mouse. And nan SL and SR buttons connected nan Joy-Cons are bigger than connected nan original Switch.

On apical of nan Switch 2, there’s a caller USB-C port. The kickstand has a caller design, excessively — it’s shaped overmuch for illustration a U. The dock for nan Switch 2 has a overmuch rounded design. And, for illustration pinch nan original Switch, location will too beryllium a abstracted controller grip that you tin threat nan Joy-Cons into.

The only crippled shown is what appears to beryllium a caller Mario Kart title. But nan console will beryllium backward-compatible pinch immoderate beingness and integer Nintendo Switch games — though nan video cautions that “certain Nintendo Switch games whitethorn not beryllium supported connected aliases afloat compatible pinch Nintendo Switch 2.”

Nintendo is promising to banal overmuch specifications successful a Nintendo Switch 2-focused Direct connected April 2nd, 2025.

The Nintendo Switch will beryllium a reliable enactment to follow. The instrumentality was a clever hybrid of a location console and a handheld, and nan look resulted successful 1 of nan bestselling consoles of each time. A immense information of nan console’s occurrence was that it was location to immoderate of Nintendo’s best-ever games, including hits for illustration The Legend of Zelda: Breath of nan Wild, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of nan Kingdom, Super Mario Odyssey, Metroid Prime Remastered, and nan very celebrated Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Fortunately, you’ll beryllium tin to play each of those games connected nan caller console — Nintendo said successful November that nan Switch’s successor will beryllium compatible pinch Switch games and will personification Nintendo Switch Online.

The first Switch was too a monolithic income hit. The institution says that, truthful far, it’s sold 146.04 cardinal units, making nan console its second-highest-selling video crippled strategy down nan original Nintendo DS, which sold 154.02 cardinal units. The Switch’s income figures too mean that it has surpassed nan Nintendo Wii (101.63 cardinal units), nan Game Boy (118.69 cardinal units), and nan Nintendo 3DS (75.94 cardinal units).

While we’ve been waiting years for a existent Switch successor, nan console had mid-cycle hardware refreshes connected nan way. The Nintendo Switch Lite was a awesome measurement to play Switch games connected a smaller device, and nan Nintendo Switch OLED added a beautiful show and a fistful of different bully upgrades.

Starting successful December, expected accusation astir Nintendo’s adjacent console began to trickle retired from accessory manufacturers. Dbrand, for example, gave america what it believed to beryllium existent dimensions of nan hardware and said that its “understanding” was that nan Joy-Con controllers would beryllium magnetically attached. And astatine CES 2025, Genki showed disconnected a 3D-printed mockup of what it believed nan Switch’s successor would look like.

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