The Nintendo Switch 2 was finally officially announced this week, and to everyone's delight (and no one's surprise), it's coming with backwards compatibility. There were a lot of leaks and rumors before the Switch 2 was actually unveiled by Nintendo,

The new console looks physically similar to the popular Switch system, which has sold more than 146 million units in seven years.

You can always count on Nintendo for a surprise. This is the company that followed the Game Boy with a strange dual-screened handheld and broke out of its GameCube slump with a console focused on motion controls.

According to one analyst, Nintendo will avoid the problems that Sony and Microsoft faced when they launched PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.

The video reveal was just the beginning, as Nintendo's Switch 2 is primed to dominate the gaming world all year long.

The Nintendo Switch 2 was revealed just this morning, and while we got a lot of confirmed details about what it would look like and even a brief look at a new game, there's still some pretty critical pieces of information missing.

If you missed it, Nintendo finally unveiled the Switch 2 this morning. It looks pretty much exactly like what the leaks said it would. It’s a bigger, presumably more powerful version of the beloved console/handheld hybrid that has magnetic Joy-Cons and can play your old Switch games,

Despite approaching eight years since it launched, analysis of Nintendo’s financial data and weekly Famitsu sales shows that Switch sold just over 3 million units in Japan last year. That compares to over 4 million in 2023, and nearly 5 million in 2022.

Gamers got a tantalizing first look at Nintendo's next video game console, the Switch 2, as the Japanese company released a brief trailer on Thursday morning.

The announcement doesn’t come as a surprise—especially in the wake of CES 2025, where several peripheral makers were bold enough to display replicas of the unrevealed hardware to showcase their Switch 2 accessories—but you might be shocked at just how closely the upcoming Switch 2 sticks to the form and function of its predecessor.

The original Switch came out in 2017, and — though graphics prowess has never been a huge part of the Nintendo ethos — if Nintendo is to expand the variety and scope of the games people can play on its console, it needs to keep up with current technology.