Nintendo’s portable system is about to see a slightly bigger and more impressive follow-up, as the Switch 2 is shown early.
The video game world has certainly changed, with a surprisingly lesser amount of the giants of gaming being portable.
There’s no portable Xbox per se, unless you count how Xbox Cloud Gaming can be used from your phone and tablet, while Sony’s PlayStation Portal is the closest you can get to making a PS5 remote.
Neither really takes gaming to go, not in the way something like the PC equivalents muster in the excellent Steam Deck or the Asus ROG Ally X.
No, if you want portable gaming that isn’t a PC and isn’t on a phone, you really have one option: Nintendo’s Switch.
A big screen with special controllers that snap on, complete with support for both cartridge games and digital downloads, not to mention able to be plugged into a TV for big screen gaming, the Switch has helped redefine Nintendo for the modern era, providing games aplenty in a portable form-factor.
And it’s about to get a sequel.
This week, Nintendo showed off a preview of what’s to come ahead of a proper announcement on April 2, showing off the main features of the Switch 2. They’ll include a bigger screen, magnetic controllers, a redesign stand, while still retaining support and backwards compatibility for the standard Switch library, or most of it.
There aren’t any spec lists yet, but we’re expecting something more powerful given the first Switch was released in 2017, and that was eight years ago. Eight years is a long time in hardware development, so you should expect something more modern that keeps Nintendo happy for another five to eight years, give or take, for the Switch 3 to arrive.
For now, there’s a cute little teaser to get stuck into what’s coming. April isn’t that far, and we can’t wait to see what Nintendo has been up to.
