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It’s time! After an agonizing three-month wait, Nintendo will finally reveal more details on the Switch 2 during its Direct on April 2nd at 9AM ET.
While Nintendo told us very little in the official reveal of the console in January, the Switch 2 isn’t a complete mystery. We do know about its backward compatibility capabilities and that you’ll be able to transfer digital games via the new virtual game card system. There are also suspicions floating around regarding the console’s new “C” button and that the Joy-Con controllers will have some kind of mouse functionality. We even know about at least one new game, a Mario Kart, while strongly suspecting Metroid Prime 4: Beyond and Pokémon Legends: Z-A will be cross-gen releases.
You can keep up with all the latest developers from the Switch 2 Direct right here.
Ash Parrish
Ash Parrish
Image of the Nintendo Switch 2.
Image of the Nintendo Switch 2.
As we settle in for the long, excruciating wait for more tangible news on the Switch 2, Nintendo has thrown us a little extra nugget of information. While we knew the company was planning to share more about the Switch 2 on April 2nd, now we have a time: 9 AM ET / 6 AM PT / 10 PM JST. If you were taking bets on this time, you would have won handily as this is generally the usual time Nintendo holds its big events. The announcement on Nintendo’s website didn’t contain any extra detail about the duration of the event or the exact breakdown of topics that’ll be covered, other than to say it “will share a closer look” at the new device.
Last month, the company finally confirmed the existence of its new console dubbed, helpfully, the Switch 2. The reveal itself was sparse on detail, only confirming that the console would be larger than its predecessor and that its Joy-Con controllers appear to attach via some kind of magnetic action. Because of the reveal’s relative lack of concrete information, we’re left with so many questions about the new console. Nevertheless, there was still lots of speculation about what the Switch 2 could possibly do. Theories were put forth that the new Joy-Cons contained some kind of mouse functionality and that the extra button on the right Joy-Con was related to some kind of party chat feature. Hopefully, Nintendo will let us know those if theories were correct during the Switch 2 Nintendo Direct on Wednesday, April 2nd bright and early at 9 AM.
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Ash Parrish
Vector illustration of the Nintendo logo.
Vector illustration of the Nintendo logo.
Now that Nintendo’s reveal of the Switch 2 has put to rest years of anticipation and rumormongering, it’s time to hear more information about the console and, importantly, all the games. The company has announced it will hold a Switch 2 Direct scheduled for April 2nd.
The Switch 2 reveal trailer showed footage that looks to be a new Mario Kart game, which is a good indication it’ll be a launch title. There’s speculation that the forthcoming Metroid Prime 4 might straddle both consoles the way Breath of the Wild launched on both the Wii U and the Switch back in 2017. The Switch 2 Direct might also reveal the follow-up to Super Mario Odyssey. Who knows?
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