Nintendo Switch 2

Hands on: All of that, and yet I'm two days in and I'm still very excited. A new Nintendo console, with a bunch of games I already love, and a bunch of little things that may change the way I play and connect with old friends. And the promise, of course, of new things to come.

Hands on: Now that I’ve had a Nintendo Switch 2 in my hands for a few days, I can say pretty confidently that this feels a lot like a Switch. You know, only more. The differences between console generations have become increasingly blurry over the last few years, and Nintendo’s latest device is the blurriest yet. It really is just a bigger, more powerful Switch. It’s not a radical update to Nintendo’s portable console — but it is a pleasant one.

Hands on: The Switch 2 needs to lean hard into that, I think. But it's also got a lot of promise. I just have to see how much it feels like a Nintendo console versus like a Steam Deck, and what taking it on the road next week will feel like.

Hands on: I suspect this could be more of an issue on Nintendo’s end, with millions of people picking up a Switch 2 at once, the company’s servers must be getting slammed pretty hard. Or at least, I’m hoping this is the case, because so far, download speeds have felt near dial-up levels of slowness.

Hands on: We’re already really enjoying our time with the Switch 2 outside of a few annoying shortcomings and design choices that haven’t yet won us over. Calling it just a bigger, stronger Switch might sound boring, but in practice, it totally rocks.