When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Heres how it works.
Its reception by critics has been one of still more speculation: What’s new?
Are Nintendo’s days of off-the-wall console releases in the past?
Nintendo’s latest announcement feels different because, by its own standards, it is.
As for the “Who is it for?”
The system zips around before a field of rapidly increasing numbers and a thumping techno beat.
It’s even shown playing a new Mario Kart.
That might tell us everything there is to know about how the Switch 2 is to be positioned.
The Game Boy Advance simply incorporated hardware improvements into a gear that everyone had already been persuaded by.
Early DS marketing placed the touchscreen at the forefront with its bizarre “touching is good” campaign.
Its sleek black design and rumored Joy-Con mice may even have the reverse goal of courting core gaming audiences.
After all, the trailer does literally show a Switch turning into a Switch 2.