{"id":9758,"date":"2025-06-07T00:05:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T00:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=9758"},"modified":"2025-06-07T00:05:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T00:05:06","slug":"nintendo-drops-switch-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=9758","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo drops Switch 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
Gamers on Thursday finally got their hands on Nintendo’s new Switch 2 console, which could score record early sales for the Japanese Super Mario creator.<\/p>\n

Featuring a bigger screen and more processing power, the device is an upgrade to the Switch, which became a global phenomenon with hit games such as Animal Crossing.<\/p>\n

The original Switch has sold 152 million units since its 2017 release, making it the third best-selling console ever.<\/p>\n

At a Tokyo electronics store on Thursday morning, Nintendo fans \u2013 including 24-year-old Lei Wang, a recent graduate from China \u2013 queued to collect their devices.<\/p>\n

He had been “shocked” to win a pre-order lottery, as none of his friends had been selected.<\/p>\n

“It’s basically just me who got picked… so I don’t really want to say anything” to them, he laughed.<\/p>\n

Shinichi Sekiguchi, 31, said he was so excited he forgot to bring his phone, while 33-year-old Kuro said she had taken a day off work to play with her new device.<\/p>\n

“The improved graphics and the ability to play with a larger group \u2013 I think that’s a big deal,” she said.<\/p>\n

Serkan Toto from Tokyo consultancy Kantan Games said he “would not be surprised to see Switch 2 breaking sales records in the next weeks and months”.<\/p>\n

In Japan, Nintendo’s online store had 2.2 million pre-order applications for the Switch 2 \u2013 an “insane number the industry has never seen before”, Toto told AFP.<\/p>\n

The Switch 2 has eight times the memory of the first Switch, and its controllers, which attach with magnets, can also be used like a desktop computer mouse.<\/p>\n

New functions allowing users to chat as they play online and temporarily share games with friends could also be a big draw for young audiences used to watching game streamers.<\/p>\n

The Switch 2 costs $449.99 in the United States, more than the original’s launch price of $299.99. Both are hybrid consoles which can connect to a TV or be played on the go.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gamers on Thursday finally got their hands on Nintendo’s new Switch 2 console, which could score record early sales for the Japanese Super Mario creator. Featuring a bigger screen and more processing power, the device is an upgrade to the Switch, which became a global phenomenon with hit games such as Animal Crossing. The original […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}