You can always count on Nintendo for a surprise. This is the company that followed the Game Boy with a strange dual-screened handheld and broke out of its GameCube slump with a console focused on motion controls.
The new console looks physically similar to the popular Switch system, which has sold more than 146 million units in seven years.
Nintendo is making it official: The Nintendo Switch 2 gaming console will arrive in 2025. The Japanese video game giant announced the new Switch Thursday morning, alongside the first official images of the device.
The video reveal was just the beginning, as Nintendo's Switch 2 is primed to dominate the gaming world all year long.
A reader is surprised at just how positive the response has been to the Nintendo Switch 2 reveal and asks what that means for the console’s success.
The Nintendo Switch 2 was revealed just this morning, and while we got a lot of confirmed details about what it would look like and even a brief look at a new game, there's still some pretty critical pieces of information missing.
If you missed it, Nintendo finally unveiled the Switch 2 this morning. It looks pretty much exactly like what the leaks said it would. It’s a bigger, presumably more powerful version of the beloved console/handheld hybrid that has magnetic Joy-Cons and can play your old Switch games,
I completely missed it the first time I saw the Nintendo Switch 2 reveal trailer yesterday. The only hint at a new innovation for Ninty’s second-generation device was on the screen for roughly four seconds,
Despite approaching eight years since it launched, analysis of Nintendo’s financial data and weekly Famitsu sales shows that Switch sold just over 3 million units in Japan last year. That compares to over 4 million in 2023, and nearly 5 million in 2022.
Nintendo's Switch 2 reveal saw shares drop 4.3%, as the console faces high expectations amid industry challenges.
Video game consoles used to be as fun as the games that could run them, but th Switch 2 signals that the era of hardware experimentation is ending.