Switch 2: the good news and bad news

In most ways, Nintendo’s Switch 2 is exactly what we wanted: a Switch, only better. Nintendo has an occasional tendency to follow its best and most successful consoles with some of its weirdest ideas – Wii U, anyone? — but this time seems to have stayed the course in the best way. Still, this is Nintendo, so there are a few oddities in this console.

On this episode of The Vergecast, we talk about all the best and worst things about the Switch so far. (I should say: one of the very worst things is that its pre-orders have been delayed because of the Trump administration’s tariffs, and there’s a strong chance it’s going to be even more expensive than we think. We recorded episode before a lot of the tariff stuff went down, but that’s surely the worst news of the lot.) The Verge’s Ash Parrish, one of the few people who has actually played with the new console, tells us all about her experience. We dig into how the screen looks, whether Donkey Kong Bananza can be a generational game like Breath of the Wild was, the strange feeling of the mouse controls, the big emphasis on video chat, and much more.

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