The Switch 2’s Bigger Screen Is Just What I Wanted

Nintendo has yet revealed nan Switch 2 — but it didn’t uncover everything. Even still, nan caller console looks beautiful overmuch for illustration a bigger, overmuch refined Switch. Sure, that’s nan straightforward and expected move from Nintendo. But it’s too precisely what I’ve been waiting for.

The first Switch was a revelation. When it launched, I marveled complete being tin to play The Legend of Zelda: Breath of nan Wild connected my TV and past return nan console retired of nan dock and play successful handheld mode coiled up connected nan couch. Nintendo perfectly nailed nan execution of combining its console and portable expertise into 1 awesome device, and ever since, nan Switch has been a changeless companion astatine location and while traveling.

I would personification been disappointed if Nintendo messed pinch what worked for nan Switch pinch nan Switch 2. I’m gladsome it has a bigger screen, 1 that appears to beryllium moreover larger than nan seven-inch show connected nan OLED Switch. I’m guessing nan taller Joy-Cons will beryllium easier to hold, which could beryllium a monolithic betterment for my hands, and attaching them from nan broadside looks for illustration it could beryllium easier than sliding them up and down. The 2nd USB-C larboard connected nan apical will beryllium a very invited summation for easier charging. And moreover though I hardly utilized it, nan return of nan kickstand is great, excessively — perchance pinch nan Switch 2, I’ll really bring it to immoderate rooftop parties.

I too alternatively for illustration nan caller achromatic creation pinch accent colors. Sure, it doesn’t celebrated alternatively arsenic overmuch arsenic nan reddish and bluish Joy-Cons for nan original Switch, but I deliberation this creation looks elegant pinch a scatter of Nintendo whimsy — I emotion really colors peek retired successful different places astir nan hardware. And location will almost surely beryllium overmuch colour options astatine launch; Nintendo initially revealed nan Switch successful grey and later showed disconnected nan now-iconic reddish and blue. 

Nintendo made a awesome telephone successful making beingness and integer Switch games backward-compatible pinch nan Switch 2. (Before today, it was a mini unclear if that would beryllium nan case.) I’ve spent years building up a ample integer Switch room that is filled pinch unthinkable games, and while Nintendo says that “certain” games won’t beryllium supported connected its caller console, I ideate that nan immense mostly of my favourite Switch games will beryllium playable. 

While Nintendo didn’t uncover immoderate method specs, we tin presume it’s going to beryllium overmuch powerful than nan original Switch. And hopefully nan caller console gives a boost to games that sometimes struggled connected nan original hardware — arsenic overmuch arsenic I emotion Breath of nan Wild, immoderate capacity improvements could make it moreover better. The aforesaid goes for different ample games for illustration Tears of nan Kingdom and Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. Maybe we’ll yet get a Grand Theft Auto crippled connected nan Switch now.

Yes, there’s a batch we don’t cognize astir nan Switch 2. The only charismatic Switch 2 crippled is simply a caller Mario Kart. Nintendo didn’t uncover nan console’s UI aliases opportunity if nan console has immoderate improved online features. The video concisely showed a measurement to usage nan Joy-Con for illustration a instrumentality mouse, but that could beryllium a hardly utilized gimmick. We don’t cognize really overmuch it will costs aliases erstwhile successful 2025 it will recreation out.

That said, because it builds upon nan original Switch’s outstanding legacy, it will beryllium a acquainted experience. There will beryllium tons of older games to play moreover if Nintendo doesn’t personification galore Switch 2 games from nan jump. It doesn’t look for illustration Nintendo has switched things up very overmuch — and that’s bully pinch me.