The Nintendo Switch 2 Hype Thread, Nintendo Direct April 2nd 2025! 3 more weeks

@ghostofgolden: It's probably a clamp locking the dev unit to the desk. Nintendo are famously afraid of leaks and piracy. I remember IGN talking about some kind of "chastity belt" for Nintendo hardware. Someone from Nintendo would fly in with a briefcase handcuffed to them, and they would then lock the Nintendo hardware to the desk, with the game inside unable to be removed or changed. Sometimes they would not leave the room until they were done with the game and could bring everything back.

Either that or it's part of the debug cables and that seems more likely to me.

Problem is at this point, they hype they will build when its actually announced wont be quite there as it would have been otherwise.

Likewise, since Switch 2 is taking up everyone's attention, their other marketing attempts are effectively ignored.

Hard to say. I never take it off.

@judaspete: sounds like your body is ready

Speaking of Reggie

How do we know that these so-called "leaks" are actually made-up by trolls who are exploiting the expectations of gamers?

Exactly! This is an issue, most "leaks" nowadays are fake, and gamers believe them too much, gamers should stop believing everything that they see on the internet.

Those people must be laughing their asses off after knowing they fooled thousands of people on the internet.

I'm waiting for the price, and I'm eagerly awaiting a price drop. I never get freshly released consoles, and I'm not buying an system that's over $399.99. So Nintendo better be smart and release at $299.99, and then eventually have a price drop or great game bundled with the system.

I am very sure it is going to be $400.

@SolidGame_basic: I look forward to playing Switch 2 games on PC.😌

@Pedro: @luxuryheart: Yeah, we're coming off a whole generation with no price drops. Switch 2 will be $400 at least, probably $450 so the OLED Switch can stay somewhat appealing at $350.

I look forward to the Nintendo lawsuits!

That haven't stopped me.🤭

Well, they know your first name, better watch out…

Actually, I always thought your username was a reference to Napoleon Dynamite lol.

I'm looking forward to the Switch 2...been a while since I played Nintendo games and skipped out on a lot of titles over the years. I've dabbled with a few games here and there but the only game I ever really remember finishing was Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze with my ex a few years ago

Switch 2 will compliment my PC well since Sony & Microsoft bring everything to PC now

They can't do anything to gamers using emulation because emulation is legal. Distribution of proprietary software, code or privacy is a different beast.

My username was just a hat tip to Spanish. It turns out that overtime folks with animosity to Spanish speakers assumed that I am latino or that English is not my native language.😂

I’m really hoping that Nintendo implement some sort of universal Achievement/Trophy system when they launch the Switch 2.

Corporate greed. They are greedy pricks. The Switch 2 might end up having a decent price.

I refuse to get hyped by the next Nintendo switch...games looked horrible, the online was horrible, the ergonomics are also horrible.

@uitravioience: You just described the perfect Nintendo platform. We should share friend codes.🤭

I also hope some new games will be there but i will pick it up if it just plays old games better too

especially rocket league it lags and is sluggish on switch 1

Genki ****ed around and found out. 😅

Being called "Switch 2" I cast doubt in its legitimacy.

"Switch 2" is a pretty lazy and straightforward name by Nintendo standards.

I'd wait until they can say they've topped PS2 sales, or when they know that will be inevitable, before announcing Switch successor.

Switch 2 Reveal Coming This Week, Launch Expected May Or June - Report

There may only be a few more days to go before Nintendo reveals the Switch 2.

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/switch-2-reveal-coming-this-week-launch-expected-may-or-june-report/1100-6528763/

Lots of buzz around a Thursday hardware reveal. 🤞🏾

@jaydan: Switch 2 would be out of character for Nintendo, but I kinda believe for two reasons; I think confusion around the Wii U has them spooked still, and there are more traditional, corporate minded people in charge of Nintendo than there used to be. It's not very often that you see such an earnest, creative type calling the shots like in the Iwata days.

I still cast doubt, and Wii U is a bit of an anomaly in the failure department, because they usually do less straightforward names in general for their console families (Gameboy/GB Color, NES/SNES, GBA/SP/Micro, DS/DSi, 3DS/2DS/3DSXL).

Point is: historically they have yet to make a sequel console with a straightforward #2 slapped on it, and I'm just not sure that's what they're going to suddenly do.

No one really expects the Switch 2 to be called the Switch 2 due to Nintendos historical naming schemes. So Nintendo calling it the Switch 2 would still be a very Nintendo thing to do 😋.

Anywho hopefully there is a reveal this week...though I suspect it won't do too much to quell speculation. They won't go into specs so we will be guestimating how powerful it is. But it's getting a bit silly now.

Hopefully we do get an idea of the games coming to it during it's launch period and a launch date....and a price. If Nintendo are charging a high tax (and covering the Nvidia Tax too) then revealing a painful price a bit early and getting the bad press out of the way may be a good idea.

This is it!!

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/nintendo-will-reportedly-reveal-switch-2-this-week/

Yep, seems like the case, but no games to be shown. So a dedicated direct that shows Switch 2 games will likely come around February

@FireEmblem_Man:

@SolidGame_basic: Hmmmmm?

@FireEmblem_Man:

OMG that video looks totally legit until peach starts asking to have her armpits sniffed in smellovision. WTF was that? No way that's real. Lol.

Literally lol‘d on that one 😆

I figure Ubisoft would be all over it, hoping for launch day sales to save them. I believe Nintendo has made their tools more friendlier to port over more games for the Switch 2.

No announcement today?! What is this s$#t!1!

The leaks just keep on coming almost daily. Switch 2 Docked/Undocked Tflops leaked.

https://wccftech.com/nintendo-switch-2-docked-undocked-tflops-have-been-leaked/

Data mining may have leaked the Nintendo Switch 2's computing power in teraflops. According to Famiboards user Zachy, the undocked or handheld mode will have a GPU clock speed of 561 MHz, translating into 1.71 TFLOPS. In docked mode, the GPU clock speed nearly doubles at 1000 Mhz, translating to around 3.1 TFLOPS.

That's one-fourth of the 12 TFLOPS of the GeForce RTX 3060 GPU, which launched in 2021. However, the RTX 3060 is a desktop GPU, so it's not an apples-to-apples comparison. A better comparison is Microsoft's Xbox Series S console. It has been said that the Nintendo Switch 2 will be less powerful than the Xbox Series S, and indeed, the leaked TFLOPS data supports that theory since the Series S has 4 TFLOPS of computing power. That's not a big difference, though, and third-party game developers will undoubtedly use their Xbox Series S configurations as starting targets for their ports to the new Nintendo console.

The Nintendo Switch 2, powered by NVIDIA's Tegra 239 SoC (featuring an eight-core CPU and an Ampere-based GPU with 2048 CUDA cores), does have an advantage over the Xbox Series S: its reported native support for NVIDIA DLSS Super Resolution and Ray Reconstruction technology. While the latter may not prove to be very useful as developers wouldn't want to spend the meager GPU power on ray tracing effects, DLSS SR will indeed be invaluable to uplift the performance to acceptable standards.

8:30pm EST is 10:30am in Kyoto, patience. If wrong, we riot and demand Nate The Hate's head

Phil needs to step in and announce the Switch 2!!

Looks like Nate The Hate Drake will get a lot of backlash tonight

@FireEmblem_Man: today’s the day!

Interesting to see the price I think it's possible its £399.

SuperMighty Win-Lite MonsterXpod or bust!! lolol :P