I Played the Nintendo Switch 2: Is It Worth It?
Published on: 2025-07-20 21:00:06
Pushing my hands over and over across a fabric-covered table while holding two mouse controllers is surprisingly tiring. I was playing Drag x Drive, a new wheelchair sports game coming for the Nintendo Switch 2 that uses one of the console's new features -- Joy-Cons that work like computer mice. I felt vibrations under my hands as though I was spinning my wheels. But I wondered: Who will play the Switch 2 while seated at a table? I realized later that you can also rub them on your pants legs to make them work. So I did that too. It was a little less tiring.
This was just one weird part of a long day playing the Nintendo Switch 2, the $450 sequel to one of Nintendo's most popular game consoles ever, arriving June 5. I've loved playing games on the Switch, just like a lot of people. But the Switch 2, while being a new console, feels a lot like an updated version of a system many people already own.
Much like the PlayStation 5 or the Xbox Series X, it's betting that playing games that l
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