Nintendo Switch 2 reveal

The Nintendo Switch 2 opposite Donkey Kong screaming in Donkey Kong Bananza.

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Not Tariffic | Nintendo isn't ruling out a Switch 2 price rise depending on those pesky tariffs, as it predicts the new hardware will outdo the uber-popular OG Switch's launch sales

"If the assumptions regarding tariffs change significantly, we would like to consider what price adjustments we should make."

May 8, 2025 Mark Warren

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Cardfusion | Nintendo rolls out Virtual Game Cards to Switch: cue confusion and anger from folks who can reportedly no longer play the same game online on two consoles

An apparent "loophole" that you can only explain in short essay form has seemingly been closed with this pre-Switch 2 Switch switch.

April 30, 2025 Mark Warren

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Shuhei Yoshida opposite the Nintendo Switch 2.

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Too JoyConservative? | Is Nintendo losing its identity with the Switch 2? Ex-PlayStation bigwig Shuhei Yoshida seems to think so

"The core premise of the whole Switch 2 is ‘we made things better’, and that’s something other companies have been doing all the time."

April 15, 2025 Mark Warren

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Link in Zelda: Breath of the Wild alongside a Nintendo Switch 2.

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Sigh | Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 edition will make you fork out for DLC separately, but hey, it's not like you'll already have spent a lot on other Switch 2 stuff

Prices definitely haven't been a talking point when it comes to any other elements of the new console or its gam-wait a minute...

April 11, 2025 Mark Warren

A JoyCon from the Switch 2 over the top of two slightly blurred, desaturated images from Bravely Default HD Remaster.

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Mouse Rules | I just gave the Nintendo Switch 2 a go, and found the best demo of the new hardware in the most unexpected place

You could argue it’s a brave decision to hide away some of the best tech work in the remaster of a 3DS game, with very little fanfare.

April 11, 2025 Dom Peppiatt

A cutout of Donkey Kong wielding a boulder in front of a stacked series of Rare logos in gold and blue.

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Rare Candy | Hands-on: Donkey Kong Bananza is extremely Super Mario Odyssey-coded, but also nails that delicious, specific Rare flair

This is almost certainly a DK title made in Japan, but whoever is behind this has stepped back and looked holistically at what Rare built in the 90s.

April 8, 2025 Alex Donaldson

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SPACE PIRATES | Playing Metroid Prime 4 with mouselook and at 120fps feels incredible - and like it should be illegal

On Switch 2, Metroid Prime 4 has modes so silky and control options so alien that playing it feels like you're being very naughty indeed.

April 5, 2025 Alex Donaldson

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Pay to Playroom | It should be free, but Switch 2’s genius Welcome Tour is nevertheless going to be a must-have game

Complain as I might… I know I’m probably going to buy this. D'oh. And you probably should too. That’s capitalism, baby!

April 4, 2025 Alex Donaldson

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Donkey Kong freaking out in Donkey Kong Bananza opposite a woman playing on a Nintendo Switch 2.

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Staying Silent | Why hasn't Nintendo responded to the Switch 2 pricing backlash? "They're so out of practice doing this", former Ninty PR staff suggest

"That muscle that they used to have has just atrophied."

April 4, 2025 Mark Warren

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A Nintendo Switch 2 next to Mario and Luigi being attacked by bees in Mario and Luigi: Brothership.

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Oof | Uh oh, Nintendo's Switch 2 Treehouse stream chat is being spammed by narked Ninty fans calling on the console maker to "drop the price"

And also like three trolls cheekily declaring it should "raise the price", because of course.

April 3, 2025 Mark Warren

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Hornet from Hollow Knight: Silksong in front of a cake.

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GLaDOS For News | In Hollow Knight: Silksong's case, the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct cake was somehow not a lie

It's possibly the weirdest way this apparent cheeky foreshadowing could have played out, so of course it's happened to Silksong.

April 3, 2025 Mark Warren

Switch 2 console with a cutout of the flying fairy, Airy, from Bravely Default.

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Fairy ‘Nuff | I wasn’t sold on the Switch 2, but then Nintendo promised me a remaster of a game I’ve been hankering to play again for over 10 years

A brave decision for a remake, now I’m defaulting to a Day One purchase.

April 2, 2025 Dom Peppiatt

Inverted colours curtain Mario next to a Nintendo Switch 2.

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Pre-Order Orders | Nintendo unveils its grand plan to fight Switch 2 scalpers: prioritise people with 20,000 hours in Ace Angler: Fishing Spirits

Sorry, people with actual lives, this is the only way.

April 2, 2025 Mark Warren

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Switch 2 Watch | The Nintendo Switch 2 launches June 5 with a bigger screen, more storage and a built-in mic - here's how much it'll cost

The wide-reaching and highly-anticipated Nintendo Switch 2 April Direct has delivered the two pieces of news everyone's been waiting for: price and launch date.

April 2, 2025 Sherif Saed

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Oh, Elden Switch (2) | Of course Elden Ring is coming to Switch 2 - and you'll get to play it this year

Elden Ring may have skipped Nintendo Switch, but If you guessed that surely it's going to be among the first few games to arrive on Switch 2, you get a cookie.

April 2, 2025 Sherif Saed