The Nintendo Switch 2, hands-on: It’s pretty good!

At a presentation unveiling the Nintendo Switch 2, longtime Nintendo producer Kouichi Kawamoto revealed that at one point, he considered calling the Switch’s successor the “Super Nintendo Switch.” It would have been a nice nod to Nintendo’s second console, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, which followed the original NES about 35 years ago. But Kawamoto, along with directors Tetsuya Sasaki and Takuhiro Dohta, didn’t think that “Super Nintendo Switch” was quite the right fit. It’s not that the Nintendo Switch 2 isn’t super — I’ll go out on a limb and call it the Pretty Good Nintendo Switch. Rather, the Switch 2 tries to take a console that’s already beloved and simply just make it better. The Switch was well-received when it came out in 2017, but it exploded in popularity when the world went into lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic, with sales more than doubling between March 2019 and March 2020. But even before the Animal Crossing: New Horizons craze, this trio of Nintendo ... Read full article.