The Nintendo Switch 2 was finally officially announced this week, and to everyone's delight (and no one's surprise), it's coming with backwards compatibility. There were a lot of leaks and rumors before the Switch 2 was actually unveiled by Nintendo,

The new console looks physically similar to the popular Switch system, which has sold more than 146 million units in seven years.

According to one analyst, Nintendo will avoid the problems that Sony and Microsoft faced when they launched PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.

You can always count on Nintendo for a surprise. This is the company that followed the Game Boy with a strange dual-screened handheld and broke out of its GameCube slump with a console focused on motion controls.

The Nintendo Switch 2 was revealed just this morning, and while we got a lot of confirmed details about what it would look like and even a brief look at a new game, there's still some pretty critical pieces of information missing.

The video reveal was just the beginning, as Nintendo's Switch 2 is primed to dominate the gaming world all year long.

If you missed it, Nintendo finally unveiled the Switch 2 this morning. It looks pretty much exactly like what the leaks said it would. It’s a bigger, presumably more powerful version of the beloved console/handheld hybrid that has magnetic Joy-Cons and can play your old Switch games,

Despite approaching eight years since it launched, analysis of Nintendo’s financial data and weekly Famitsu sales shows that Switch sold just over 3 million units in Japan last year. That compares to over 4 million in 2023, and nearly 5 million in 2022.

The Nintendo Switch 2 is scheduled for release in 2025. According to a press release, on April 2, during a Nintendo Direct event, more specific launch dates are expected to be disclosed. While Nintendo has not officially announced the pricing for the Switch 2, industry experts speculate that it may be priced similarly to its predecessor.

The announcement doesn’t come as a surprise—especially in the wake of CES 2025, where several peripheral makers were bold enough to display replicas of the unrevealed hardware to showcase their Switch 2 accessories—but you might be shocked at just how closely the upcoming Switch 2 sticks to the form and function of its predecessor.

I completely missed it the first time I saw the Nintendo Switch 2 reveal trailer yesterday. The only hint at a new innovation for Ninty’s second-generation device was on the screen for roughly four seconds,