Where Is Our Nintendo Switch 2 Review?

Over the past 8 years, the Nintendo Switch has go 1 of the astir palmy and influential consoles of each clip – truthful it’s incredibly breathtaking that the Nintendo Switch 2 is yet starting to magnetically drawback into the hands of millions. Unfortunately, we did not person a Switch 2 up of its worldwide motorboat connected June 5, truthful we don’t person a reappraisal of Nintendo’s caller hardware acceptable for you close retired of the gate.

That said, we volition beryllium moving arsenic accelerated arsenic we tin to archer you each astir it erstwhile it arrives, arsenic good arsenic each the games and accessories that travel it. I’ll beryllium the 1 reviewing the console itself, and the program is to person a reappraisal successful advancement up sometime Friday with my archetypal impressions, past a final, scored reappraisal ideally by the extremity of the pursuing week, erstwhile I’ve had clip to instrumentality it to immoderate rooftop parties and the like. And that’s successful summation to sum of each its biggest games.

If you are looking for immoderate very aboriginal impressions close now, you tin cheque retired our hands-on preview from a mates months ago, arsenic good arsenic a last previews of some Mario Kart World and Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour from our precise ain Logan Plant this week (who volition besides beryllium doing the afloat reappraisal of Mario Kart World). In the meantime, if you’re wondering wherefore I’m going to beryllium the 1 to reappraisal the afloat system, fto maine archer you a spot astir myself.

My sanction is Tom, and I’m the Executive Reviews Editor for games astatine IGN. I’ve been present for 8 years adjacent period and person reviewed rather a fewer Nintendo games successful that time, including The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. I besides served a stint arsenic a regular connected our Nintendo Voice Chat podcast. The keen-eyed among you whitethorn besides announcement that this isn’t the archetypal clip I’ve reviewed a Switch, either: I did some our 2018 updated reappraisal of the basal Switch, taking a look astatine the strategy aft a twelvemonth of regular use, arsenic good arsenic our reappraisal of the pocket-sized Switch Lite successful 2019.

After each of that I’m highly acquainted with Nintendo’s archetypal hybrid system, and portion I genuinely emotion that console, I’m besides precise alert of its shortcomings, from show woes to joystick drift. Because the Switch 2 feels similar much of an iterative successor that doesn’t acceptable retired to flip the array connected what Nintendo was already doing, I americium going to beryllium taking an oculus toward those longstanding issues and however good they person been addressed (although, for thing similar drift, we apt won’t person a wide reply for galore months to come).

I americium besides highly funny however its caller flagship features are going to enactment extracurricular of the controlled situation of a preview lawsuit – astir of all, its rodent controls. If that enactment works arsenic good arsenic I hope, it could beryllium a monolithic gamechanger successful presumption of what kinds of games tin beryllium comfortably played connected a console. But if it is poorly implemented oregon uncomfortable to usage for immoderate reason, it’ll conscionable beryllium the latest successful a agelong enactment of gimmick power schemes that we anticipation aren’t awkwardly forced into each first-party crippled (I’m looking astatine you, question controls).

Speaking of games, alongside the strategy reappraisal and reviews of the 2 all-new motorboat games, Welcome Tour and Mario Kart World, we’re besides readying check-ins connected large games that are getting Switch 2 revisions. That includes Cyberpunk 2077, Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, and Civilization 7, arsenic good arsenic games with little flashy updates similar Pokemon Scarlet and Violet.

Needless to say, we’ll beryllium covering this console motorboat from each imaginable angle, and we are excited to dive successful alongside everyone else.