Nintendo has finally followed through on the promise that it would tell us more about the Switch 2 in April. During a mammoth hour-long Nintendo Direct, it unveiled a whole heap of details, including that all-important release date: **5 June**.
There's still one huge question lingering, though – how much will it cost? Well, Nintendo had nothing to share on that front, which took a fair few observers by surprise.
We did get some other financial revelations from the presentation, though, since we also found out that the "[Nintendo Switch 2 Edition](https://www.t3.com/tech/gaming-consoles/nintendo-switch-2-will-get-exclusive-games-get-ready-to-ditch-your-existing-switch)" versions of games that we'd heard mention of before will not be free upgrades, in at least some cases. Nintendo showed off upgrades to the likes of _Mario Party Jamboree_ and both _The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild_ and _Tears of the Kingdom_.
All of them offered better graphical performance in the form of frame rates and resolution, but Nintendo said that each would be a paid upgrade, without providing immediate details on how much that upgrade would cost.
In some ways, this mirrors how Sony has handled things in many cases with PS5 versions of PS4 games, but some of these have been offered for free. It'll be interesting to see how Nintendo handles this on a case-by-case basis.
Still, this slightly removes the dream that you'll be able to plug in an original Switch version of a game and immediately get performance benefits for free – we now know it'll generally cost money. That's life!
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