Nintendo Switch 2 Revealed.

www.polygon.com Nintendo Switch 2 revealed, out in 2025

For once, Nintendo has gone the ‘same, but more powerful’ route

https://youtu.be/itpcsQQvgAQ

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Not too surprising they didn’t change much. The switch was a huge hit so fixing things like the joycons, adding a stand, etc. was the way to go.
My guess (hope) is that the only new titles exclusive to the switch 2 are ones that the original switch wouldn’t have the processor strength to play and that they won’t arbitrarily wall them but we’ll see.
- The Nintendo switch came out in early 2017, and it really wasn't all that powerful then. It's 8 years later, and it really shows. I don't think they should make new games for the Switch. If developers have to consider the original Switch, the games will suffer. It had a good run, and a good library. But it's time for the original switch to retire.
  
  Precisely this. Consideration for the original Switch is exactly how the Series S is causing problems for games on the Series X and PS5. Yes, a cheaper entry is great for gamers who can't afford but dragging the potential down is a recipe for hamstringing the newer hardware.
- Unfortunately games have been struggling on the Switch’s hardware for a couple years. There were a few parts of the newest Pokémon game that felt like a slideshow presentation.
  
  Oh I don’t want them to hold back new games performance just for the OG switch, that was pretty underpowered even when it came out. I’m hoping the switch 2 gets a good upgrade in the area since it’s needed.
  More for indie games and things like that was what I was thinking.
  
  Pokémon
  Is that still scarlet and violet? Because if so, I don't think that was a problem with the switch.
- Like, hyrule warriors lagging at ulti in splitscreen mode, you mean? They already released that for switch 1 🤣
  Now we can finally play it lag free 🥳well, hopefully 🤪
  Or we just continue to play lag free on steam deck 😜

It's basically the same. And it makes sense, it seems that's what people want. But also, can Nintendo ever go back to the old ways? If ever they make something that isn't a Switch, they'd have to develop two pieces of hardware, since they're likely going to want both a home console and a handheld device. I think things might be like this forever.
- Being Nintendo the fact that it is basically the same is the actual surprise.
  
  I feel like the nes->snes, gb->gbc->GBA, ds->3ds, and wii->WiiU were all pretty similar advancements.
  In all of those except nes->snes you had backwards compatability, and the wii->WiiU had hardware backwards compatibility (which the switch 2 doesn't, at least for controllers).

My switch 1 is gathering dust, mostly because of the awful controllers. Looks like they made the controllers bigger, and the magnetic slide looks much better than the switch1. I hope they significantly reduced the stick drift problem. I hope they allow 3rd party controllers to turn on the device.
- I've had every Nintendo console since the gbc and suspect I'll eventually get this too, but they've got an uphill battle vs the steamdeck for me. Really going to depend on the first party games.
- I always play with pro controller or powerA gamrcube wireless

Should have called it the Nintendo Top.
- Nintendo Dom

Hall Effect Sensors pls.
- Sadly, I don't see any amount of effort being put into longevity. That's far too consumer-friendly from any of the big 3
  
  Credit where it’s due, switch is pretty durable except joy-cons, and they are pretty easy to repair yourself
- What, do you think Nintendo is made of money?

I personally dont get why they went with Nvidia again, they make cheap mobile processors and I doubt this one will be any different. Imo they should have gone with a low end AMD APU based on Ryzen 9000.
- Who would switch from arm to x86 when the whole market is moving into arm direction?
- Backwards compatibility
  
  They could have implemented a simple compatibility layer to play Switch 1 games

I was kinda hoping for a smaller console, not a larger one.

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