Nintendo Switch 2 officially announced for 2025

[Chimpzy]

It's here. Bout time too, fanboy desperation was getting awkward.


Anyway, not much to go on:

• Bit larger screen/system
• Joycons now lock magnetically?
• Physical backcomp with Switch games (I'm guessing the exceptions are maybe games that require a peripheral like Ring Fit or Nintedo Labo)
• New Mario Kart?

More info in a Direct on April 2nd.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

• New Mario Kart?

Big if true.

 

[Chimpzy]

Big if true.

Well, Mario Kart 8 sold like a billion copies, so maybe not that surprising.

 

[BrawlMan]

It's here. Bout time too, fanboy desperation was getting awkward.


Anyway, not much to go on:

• Bit larger screen/system
• Joycons now lock magnetically?
• Physical backcomp with Switch games (I'm guessing the exceptions are maybe games that require a peripheral like Ring Fit or Nintedo Labo)
• New Mario Kart?

More info in a Direct on April 2nd.

All agreed to hear. I won't be getting this immediately, but I'll give it some time down the line.

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

Well, with no release date and no info on any launch titles it's basically just an announcement of an announcement. Not terribly exciting.

 

[CriticalGaming]

It's here. Bout time too, fanboy desperation was getting awkward.


Anyway, not much to go on:

• Bit larger screen/system
• Joycons now lock magnetically?
• Physical backcomp with Switch games (I'm guessing the exceptions are maybe games that require a peripheral like Ring Fit or Nintedo Labo)
• New Mario Kart?

More info in a Direct on April 2nd.

You forgot the buttons! It's got buttons dude!

Also the joycons connect via a little chip connector not magnets. Magnets behind a screen seem like a bad idea.

 

[BrawlMan]

Not terribly exciting.

But it has begun....

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[Ezekiel]

Don't like Mario Kart anymore. Tracks all too short, lame physics and still no way to checkmark all the items that you want on the maps. DLC also had far too many real world cities. I don't want my world in Mario.

 

[meiam]

Any word on backward compatibility?

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Any word on backward compatibility?

I believe Nintendo have stated that games and the storefront will be compatible.

 

[Gordon_4]

I'm not hugely convinced on the new attachment method for the Joycons BUT if the current Pro Controller is compatible I'm not going to care because I don't use the Joycons cos I never take my switch anywhere unless I'm going to be gone for longer than 24 hours.

Not sure how hardcore portable stans feel about it though.

 

[Drathnoxis]

This seems like the least creative Nintendo console to date. Where's the stupid name? Why not call it the "New Switch" or something like that. Beyond that, just another Switch but with better specs is pretty boring.

 

[Gordon_4]

This seems like the least creative Nintendo console to date. Where's the stupid name? Why not call it the "New Switch" or something like that. Beyond that, just another Switch but with better specs is pretty boring.

There's nothing wrong with 'like the last one but better'.

 

[Elvis Starburst]

There's nothing wrong with 'like the last one but better'.

And given the success of the Switch and the niche it filled I think that's fine. For once it couldn't hurt to have "like the last one but better" from a Nintendo console, just this one time. I'm sure it'll have a bit more to it than what we see as well. This is just a first look, not a full system spec and feature announcement

 

[Chimpzy]

Any word on backward compatibility?

My guess is the unsupported/incompatible games are stuff like Ring Fit Adventure or Nintendo Labo, i.e. games with a peripheral that requires physical compatibility with Switch Joycons.

 

[Drathnoxis]

There's nothing wrong with 'like the last one but better'.

No, it's just uncreative and is another step to Nintendo falling in line with the rest of the games industry, like they did with dlc and online subscriptions. But I'm not worried, I'm sure Nintendo will innovate plenty by raising the price of games again and never letting them drop.

 

[BrawlMan]

No, it's just uncreative and is another step to Nintendo falling in line with the rest of the games industry, like they did with dlc and online subscriptions. But I'm not worried, I'm sure Nintendo will innovate plenty by raising the price of games again and never letting them drop.

And you are worrying too much. DLC and subscription aside. I pretty much pay for neither. Mainly the subscription. Fuck that shit.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

I find the decision to mess with the colors odd. The red highlight for the joystick looks really weird to me. Yes, that is a worthless nitpick, because I don't know anything about the original Switch and this video told me nothing about the new Switch.

Another thought: I highly doubt this will have the kind of power needed to actually have third party games again, but even if it did, I don't trust that games would be optimized enough to be enjoyable. Even if the Switch 2 is the biggest console of this generation, I don't think devs will want to prioritize porting to it for development.

 

[Gordon_4]

No, it's just uncreative and is another step to Nintendo falling in line with the rest of the games industry, like they did with dlc and online subscriptions. But I'm not worried, I'm sure Nintendo will innovate plenty by raising the price of games again and never letting them drop.

Okay, so what kind of innovative step were you hoping for?

 

[Gordon_4]

Alleged leak of specs for Switch 2

The TL;DR

• CPU: Arm Cortex-A78C
  • 8 cores
  • Unknown L1/L2/L3 cache sizes
• GPU: Nvidia T239 Ampere
  • 1 Graphics Processing Cluster (GPC)
  • 12 Streaming Multiprocessors (SM)
  • 1534 CUDA cores
  • 6 Texture Processing Clusters (TPC)
  • 48 Gen 3 Tensor cores
  • 2 RTX ray-tracing cores
• RAM: 12 GB LPDDR5

Handheld Mode:

• CPU: 998.4 MHz
• GPU: 561 MHz (~1.72 TFLOPS)
• Memory Frequency: 4266 MHz
• Memory Bandwidth: 68.256 GB/s

Docked Mode:

• CPU: 1100.8 MHz
• GPU: 1007.25 MHz (~3.09 TFLOPS)
• Memory Frequency: 6400 MHz
• Memory Bandwidth: 102.4

is what the current rumourmongering is looking at for now