Should you upgrade to Nintendo Switch 2? Our critic weighs
Nintendo is a different company now than it was in 2017 when it released The Switch. For one of them, more than 150 million units of the TV/hybrid mobility unit have sold it, making it the game device specified in the past decade.
Nintendo also expanded its universes outside its keyboards. Finally, “Super Mario Bros.” It has become a great moving movie, and there are now three SUPER Nintendo World Parks, including a movie here in Los Angeles at Universal Studios Hollywood.
This makes the launch of Nintendo Switch 2 something of the event, and it can be said that it is the most important technical tool for this year.
Todd Martens, the column writer in the Times, plays the role of Nintendo Switch 2, which was promoted by “The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom” on a portable control unit.
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Therefore, good news. Switch Price 2 is a caliph worth the original. Unlike WII, which was controlled by the movement in 2006 or the double Nintendo DS, the control unit that believed in the safe Play-II-Somewhat takes the IF-II-ET-II-BROKE toys, and continues the Nintendo heritage instead of redefining it. Although it is the largest, strongest and best feeling, and comes with two new tricks, it is generally the refinement of the original switching ideas.
The first game company to make the names of interactive families- I did this through an intermediary, in most of its prevailing forms it is only about four decades.
Switch 2, which was officially released on June 5 and sold for $ 449.99, is the ship for which Nintendo will reveal about its worlds that are most likely to play in the next decade. Receptions from consumers may be inspiring, but it brings with him a set of questions.
The same switch is far from outdated, although it is much stronger than Sony and Microsoft, due to its mixed design. Consumers may forgive the question of the reason – or when – they must upgrade to a machine that looks and plays and plays from what they currently have, especially when Nintendo launches only one new basic game for her this month, “Mario Kart World”.

Nintendo Switch 2 with its accessories, control unit and PRO. Each is sold separately.
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Saleh, but I believe that those who spend the jump will be happy in their investments, even if the exclusive game group is relatively barrier at the present time. There are sufficient improvements to make the 2 switch feel refreshed.
I am enthusiastic, to anyone, to find out how their controllers develop, and “joyful-makers”, as they now have the ability to behave as aus. This has already become useful in the “Civilization Vii” strategy, which is the title that I have waited for Switch 2 to run and one can use the more accurate maneuvers control items. The archers should benefit from the first person more.
Then there are their chat features, which can be enhanced using an optional Nintendo camera ($ 54.99). Although serious players who use services like Discord may not need a console to facilitate chatting with friends, Switch 2 makes delivery and safe and easy speaking for the player who plays individually. One can just talk to accredited friends, Nintendo will check the accounts and phone number to do so. Just touch a button on the Joy-Con, and the chat feature is enabled.
My Switch 2 communication circuit is currently small, so I did not try these cases as much as I wish, especially the CameraPlay feature that allows users to overlook their faces on drivers in the game. There is no doubt that other features will be useful during “Mario Kart World”, saving my friends and I am from talking through the text. They served as a gift from the sky during the worst days of Covid-19, when each owner was a key to the participation of “animal crossing: new horizons” with their friends.
All this does not say anything about how the switching 2 feels simply. Joy-Cons now connects a magnetic instead of having to lock in place, and although it may be a gradual upgrade, its capture in the console is one of those technical creations that look like magic, like the first time that one uses a touch screen. It is a little larger, and I find that the switching switch 2 is more powerful in dealing with my arms less likely to be tired when playing in bed.

Nintendo Switch 2- “Cons-Cons”-is now magnetic.
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The screen is 1080 pixels, which makes each old game feel brighter, brighter and less mysterious, and Switch 2 has 4K TVs. “Super Mario Odyssey” never seemed clear, 9.99 dollars to “The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild” and “The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom” will make you want to reconsider – or jump again – each of those titles, As it is refreshing cases and tire prices in which we see the world.
Battery life, however, may be a challenge. In mobile, I managed to get about two hours of “Mario Kart World” before the need to recharge. The console was better with independent and smaller games.
But the real reason for buying a new game console is for the next generation games. Nintendo relies on “Mario Kart World” to be sufficient at first to seduce buyers. It is a safe bet, when one considers that “Mario Kart 8” is one of the best -selling games in all times, as it sold more than 67 million copies. Many of the original key “Mario Cart” that focuses, and although I am the best Spacey Bloomb when the kingdom of fungus explores on foot-running, jumping, and has a way to save his friends-I am not fortified from the magic of “Mario Cart”.
“Mario Kart 8” was released again in 2014, which means that these gentle but delicious races are now nostalgia for another generation. And “the world” marries some Nintendo’s strangeness – you can now race as a cow – with her tendency to the world’s fun building. I am fond of, for example, with the game’s approach to races, which makes driving between the landscape of the Kingdom of Al -Fitr as important as the paths that include everything from the 66 -inspired track of sponsoring giant ice cream insufficiency.

Nintendo Switch 2- “Cons-Cons”-as a mos.
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There is now the so -called “Roam Free Roam”, which simply allows us to get out of the path and explore the wonders of the Kingdom of Al -Fitr. Although there may be a few hidden small games, I find them comfortable and full of small surprises. Instead of zooming at Yoshi’s Cafe, I can now withdraw, enjoy some speed ice cream, enjoy animation work and enjoy cheerful soundtracks at home, orchestra, slightly optimistic, cartoon fees for the large American band, jazz and western jazz. As a suffering from insomnia, I spent some of the newly sleeping nights around “Mario Kart World”, and she is leading through the empty castles that turned to the sophistication.
Then there is a “Nintendo Switch 2”. This is an introduction worth $ 9.99 for what Switch 2 can do, full of small small games, most of which are able to finish in a minute or two. One displays the touch screen of Switch 2, which makes us use the device as a type of Twister panel for our hands. Others use Joy-Con Toss to swing violently in a golf ball or evade metal obstacles. Sometimes, they are not games at all, but rather technical shows designed to appear, for example, the effects of blood vibration in control units.
Someone simply prompted me to use the Switch 2 support position to try to match the scores that asked me to set the console. “I haven’t seen such amazing hunting!” Tell me after completing the mission. Why thank you.
It is cute. I have completed a little more than half of it. It reminds me of a little personal computers in the mid -eighties of the last century, where the 2 key turns into a center similar to parks full of human beings full of young human beings. Although I recommend seven so if I bought in Switch 2, it is ultimately a game as if it was in the end, and it should have been included in the system, especially since one of its goals made us appreciate the technology behind the console better.
The most common question I received – understandable – is if I believed the key 2 “deserves all this effort”. Although it is difficult to tell a person of climbing approximately $ 500 for a game machine, then another $ 80 for “Mario Kart World” (you may also want a $ 84.99 DRO controller, as it is a comfortable way comfortably. Fortunately, Switch controllers will work with Switch 2, which provides you with some financial upgrade headache, and with 256 GB of internal storage, you will not likely need the broad MicroSD Express Card in Microscope in the memory immediately, although you will need a new condition due to the size of the largest control unit.

Todd Martens, the column writer in Times’ Todd Martens, “Nintendo Switch 2: Welcome Tour” plays in mobile.
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With the happiness, the upgrade from a previous key to the 2 key is relatively easy. One of them log in to their Nintendo account, and places keyboards next to each other while transferring the data. I brought a handful of games, which took about half a day. Download various speeds. “Tears of the Kingdom” was loaded in about 20 minutes, while the larger game like “Cyberpunk 2077” took about three hours.
Part of the purchase of a new game console is gambling, betting on the new games that are presented in the coming years that we hope will make the device a worthy investment. Early signs are promising. “Donkey Kong Banza” is scheduled for July 17. I played the game at a media event at Nintendo earlier this year, and I am keen to get my hand on it because it embodies the principles of play in Nintendo. Our friendly but angry banana can make its way across the world mainly, and it lasts and destroys new paths to make this game about exploration as much as any challenges.
This has long been Nintendo’s approach to play and storytelling, and this will be possible to change any time soon. Switch has become the most popular in the contract by giving us games that have become a global phenomenon, whether it is “animal crossing: new horizons” or “kingdom’s tears” (I am the most partly for “Super Mario Odyssey”).
For the purchase of Switch 2 is to trust the Nintendo design team to continue delivery. They are the first days, but I feel satisfied with that gambling. After all, I have a cow in a card waiting to return to a race.