Nintendo Switch 2 Official Reveal Is Happening Today as the Long-Awaited Follow-Up Gaming Console Makes Its Debut

I watched part of the announcement video. People in chat on youtube are loosing their freaking minds. Literally impossible to read. And there is very little pomp to the presentation. They are a voiceover away from having a kid in a room just read pieces of paper introduce the next game video. ;)
 
I don't usually watch these kinds of things live, but I did this time. The video in the stream lagged behind the audio, and at one point the video just plain stopped working.

$450 is a tough sell when base PS5 without disc drive is $400, and XBSS is $300 and is probably still more powerful than Switch 2. But yeah I know, Switch 2 is portable.

Full Nintendo Direct on Switch 2 here:

Switch 2 overview trailer:

Nintendo GameChat:

Game showcase:
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GCN games on the NSO service: https://youtu.be/0MvkSVs8f_w

Kirby and the Forgotten Land getting Switch 2 upgrades: https://youtu.be/Q5peJd37J-k

Zelda BotW and TotK getting Switch 2 upgrades: https://youtu.be/dmDD7JSfhcE
And probably still won't look as good or run as well as the emulated versions of PC. Plus those emulated versions have mod support.

Super Mario Party Jamboree getting Switch 2 upgrades: https://youtu.be/w0jkSlm6gVA

New game Mario Kart World: https://youtu.be/3pE23YTYEZM

New game Kirby's Air Riders: https://youtu.be/oJVsNMp_nAU

New game DK Bananza: https://youtu.be/mIddsPkdX9U

FromSoftware game The Duskbloods, exclusive to Switch 2: https://youtu.be/niKHDEKQ7xA

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment: https://youtu.be/V3kGASsFqQI
 
Yeah that's a tough pill to swallow price wise.
 
A friend showed me this: https://kotaku.com/nintendo-switch-2-pre-order-requirements-store-online-1851774277

"Right now, if you want to purchase a Switch 2 through Nintendo in the U.S., you have to register interest on the company’s website for either the standard $450 system or the $500 Mario Kart World bundle. Nintendo will send the first round of purchase invites on May 8, almost a month after pre-orders go live elsewhere on April 9. The company will roll out more invites before its official pre-orders open to the general public, and if you receive one you’ll have 72 hours to make a purchase. But what makes you eligible? That’s where things get tricky. The priority requirements as listed on Nintendo’s site are: 'As of 4/2/2025, (i) you must have been the one who purchased any Nintendo Switch Online membership, (ii) you must have had any paid Nintendo Switch Online membership for a minimum of 12 months, and (iii) you must have opted in to share gameplay data and have at least 50 hours total gameplay hours.'"
 
www.eurogamer.net

Switch 2 has "10x the graphics performance of the Nintendo Switch", claims Nvidia

We've learned an awful lot about Switch 2 over the last 24 hours or so, but not so much - as is Nintendo's usual way - …
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Has Tensor Cores and RT cores. DLSS has been confirmed. Also has G-Sync VRR.

"As for Nvidia's claim Switch 2 has '10x the graphics performance' of the original Switch, it certainly sounds impressive, but Digital Foundry was perhaps more cautious in its evaluation of Switch 2's potential real-world performance when sharing its initial analysis of the console. 'As an opener for the deluge of games to come, Switch 2 lands where I would expect it to based on what we've seen so far,' Richard Leadbeatter wrote. 'Personally, I went into the presentation expecting a machine with overall performance in line with Steam Deck, but early indications do suggest something more potent - at least in docked configuration.'"
 
Snowy said:
$80 per game is insane.
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I mean... as one who opts for the more inclusive packages... I tend to pay that as it is. Sometimes north of 100... but for new gamers... as long as prices drop or as is likely they are in the RMR generating subscription packages.. people won't care.
 
$50 was bad. $60 was very troublesome. The new standard $70 price for 9th-gen games was absolutely insane. Now we are seeing $80 for games for a system that is 8th-gen in terms of power! This is absolutely ridiculous! But I never buy games at launch or at full price anyways. The problem with Nintendo is that A.) they sell old games for full price for a looooong time, B.) their sales never really go below $40, which is hardly a "sale". Meanwhile on PC, games can be 50% off in as little as a few months, and within a year or two you'll see those same games for as little as $5. On Microsoft and Sony consoles, games will fall to 50% price or below relatively quickly. All the big-name games I own on PS4 I paid $10 each for, and those were brand-new physical copies. I've seen PS5's top games already in the $20-$30 range within a couple years. Personally my sweet spot price range for buying games is $5-15. So Nintendo can kiss my @ss. I hope that A.) emulation for the Switch 2 takes off as well as it did for Switch 1 games, and B.) the system gets cracked wide the f*ck open which allows for modding. Playing those Switch 1 games on PC via emulation was a vastly superior experience to playing on the hardware anyways. Nintendo got their hands on some grade A Colombian cocaine, and they are doing copious amounts of it.
 
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Niner51 said:
They say PC gaming is getting expensive. Nintendo.."hold my beer"
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Get back to me when the cost to build a top end nintendo system is 5.5k. THEN you have to pay whatever the market will bare for the games themselves.
 
Grimlakin said:
Get back to me when the cost to build a top end nintendo system is 5.5k. THEN you have to pay whatever the market will bare for the games themselves.
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If you wanna compare Switch 2 to PC, then compare to the Steam Deck, a system of similar power whose lowest SKU is cheaper than the Switch 2, and whose games are on the whole vastly cheaper, especially when factoring in the constant and deep sales I mentioned earlier. Not to mention the Steam Deck is a full-blown PC that is completely open, free for you to use as you wish, just as with any PC.

It also does not take a top-end PC (or anywhere close) to be able to emulate Switch 1 games and have a gaming experience far superior to that of the hardware.
 
Grimlakin said:
Get back to me when the cost to build a top end nintendo system is 5.5k. THEN you have to pay whatever the market will bare for the games themselves.
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I guess I should have specified that I meant the cost of games..;)
 
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