In less than 24 hours, our eyeballs will be filled with Nintendo Switch 2 news. No more speculation and no more hoping to wake up from a fitful sleep to see an angelic Shigeru Miyamoto hovering above the bed with a Switch 2 in hand. The Sequel Switch is set to be one of the most-impactful console launches in recent memory, but we’ll still have to get our hands on it before we understand its true potential.
We don’t have to wait long before Nintendo finally drops the final details about the Switch 2. The company is set to show its stuff April 2 at 9 a.m. ET, 6 a.m. PT. You can watch it through Nintendo’s official YouTube channel or on the dedicated Switch 2 Nintendo Direct page. All those U.S. west coasters will have to wake before sunrise just to see if Nintendo finally shows us if the Switch 2 JoyCon can slide around like a PC mouse, or not. And if you don’t want to tune in you can at least check out Gizmodo, where we’ll be covering the whole announcement.
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The company’s Nintendo Today! app has been counting down the days until the direct. In its latest posts, the app shows an image of the Switch 2 in multiple modes, including with the console docked, in handheld mode, and with the JoyCons connected to their own charging grip. And note the far right of the picture below. Nintendo added to the mouse-controls speculation by having the right-hand JoyCon arranged with its connection port facing down—ostensibly where the mouse optical sensor will sit.
The Switch-maker’s last Direct showed off a fair few games that were still set to launch on the original Switch. That includes both Pokémon Legends Z-A and Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, which seem like shoo-ins to receive a version on the Switch 2 too. Nintendo also detailed its new system for Virtual Game Cards, which let users transfer digital games between friends’ systems as well as your own. This is likely how Nintendo expects players to transfer games between the original and sequel Switch.
There’s still much we don’t know about the system, including what the hell that mysterious “C” button does on the right-hand controller. Some tips from relatively reliable tipster eXtas1s suggested it could allow players to connect to the original Switch to use as a second screen. Recently-revealed patents for a phone holder connection accessory further suggest the console could connect to a phone or other device to turn the Switch 2 into a pseudo-Nintendo DS.
We also still don’t know if the Switch 2 will finally support 4K resolution. Nintendo filed patents suggesting it had at least considered 4K upscaling for the sequel Switch. However, Insider Gaming reported this week that anonymous developers were confirming Switch 2 dev kits didn’t note any support for 4K output when docked. Nintendo releases these dev kits to developers early so they can craft their games around the Switch 2 hardware.
We’ll be covering all the big news out of tomorrow’s announcement so stay tuned.
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