Nintendo asks gamers to embrace improvements and price increases with the new Switch 2 | hands-on with hardware

Nintendo has gone seven years without a new game console, and now it is unveiling the Switch 2 for a low low price of $80 for games and $450 for platforms. The Switch 2 is the first Nintendo console in a while that doesn’t have an original name, and so it has the boring name of Switch 2 and it is making some gamers wonder if there is enough innovation in this system. Nintendo’s own hardware designers admitted that they struggled to come up with a good name. But Nintendo really has to launch it due to competition from Valve’s Steam Deck and the work of various rivals. That gets it into the discussion of hardware specs for the first time. In its press event, Nintendo touted the systems ability to hit 4K HDR graphics and 60 frames per second on a TV, or 120 FPS at 1080p, in comparison to the 720p 30 FPS performance of the seven-year-old Switch. The net result is that there are a lot of tradeoffs for different parts of the system when you play it with unaffordable hardware. The Switch ... Read full article.