In case you live under a nice Mossy Rock, Nintendo Switch 2 finally appeared last week. Although it looks like a slightly higher, younger siblings of the original switch, this successor can boast of reinforced hardware capabilities – including the CHIP from NVIDIA. Despite the obvious similarities at first glance and the composition of the premiere, which did not have exactly the WOW factor, Switch 2 sales numbers are definitely worth a double shot.
3.5 million– so many Switch 2 units have moved in the first four days for sale According to Nintendo. The original switch was much slower burning, changing 2.74 million pieces in the first month. Of course, this is still a lot of game consoles, and the original switch still wears a crown for the best -selling Nintendo console, after changing A total of 152.12 million hardware units From March 2025, despite this, if he keeps this pace, Switch 2 can be on the right track to break this record again at speed.
So why as a journalist of games and technology, I am not excited that the completely novel Nintendo console will fall this month – is the fact that I am writing on the “PC Gamer” website? After configuring switch 2, navigating next to an almost identical user interface to run Puyo Puyo Tetris 2s, the thought of me arrived: “Oh no, I really spent $ 500 on The same The console I bought in 2017? “
To make it clear, I know the guts If Otherwise, with this system with NVIDIA, it definitely gives the switch 2 a stronger edge; Even if it is not as revolutionary as Jensen Huang you would like to believe, I must admit that I never thought that I would see Cyberpunk 2077 on the Nintendo console. In addition to this extremely enthusiastic distribution of discovering what makes the Tike chip, our James wrote excellent deep diving, comparing the capabilities of Switch 2 with a steam deck, and this is definitely closer to competition than I expected. Despite this, I can’t ignore the feeling of how “safe” this premiere feels – or a huge success he met, despite the same.
Still, it’s strenuous not to feel like it remains a “safe” show from Nintendo, and this successor switch proudly declares “if it didn’t break …!” Speaking of this, the more things it changes, the more they remain the same, with the tears of iFixit shows that Nintendo still soldems things directly on the motherboard. It also turns out that the joys remain open to the terrifying drift sticks. All this makes Switch 2 another manual device, which is not uncomplicated to repair, but is in slightly less self -drawing of the technological landscape.
I mean that the thought of the Mountains of E-Propades still keeps me at night, but I personally I am surprised by the last EU efforts to raise the “consumer right to repair”. Earlier, both Oregon and California took similar steps in the United States. Even Big Tech Behemoth Apple notices the sea change, and the iPhone 16 is much easier to dismantle and repair than its predecessor.
On the other hand, Nintendo still sticks the battery here – some consumers will most likely want to try to replace – so steadfast that people risk introducing novel mistakes to their console if they try to undermine it. From a company that carried out enormous settlements against Switch developers, the emulator or otherwise submitted offers that they cannot refuse, this level of control is not surprising. However, Nintendo’s approach results in very enormous consumers unfriendly to the plurast in the technological landscape, in which the waves are more noticeable than ever.
