After an agonizing three-month wait, Nintendo finally revealed more details on the Switch 2 during a Direct presentation on the morning of April 2nd. While Nintendo told us very little in the official reveal of the console in January, now we know when the Switch 2 is coming and how much it will cost at launch: June 5th and $449.99.

I was excited to be among the first journalists to test the Nintendo Switch 2, but questions about its launch titles and price left me unsure about preordering.

Nintendo said it will launch its Switch 2 gaming device on June 5, with the long-anticipated successor to its hit hybrid home-portable Switch retailing for $449.99.

The release date of the Nintendo Switch 2 will by June 5, 2025, just over two months from now, and managing to get out before the second half of the year, not bothering with a hol

But the Switch 2 is a couch console when docked and freely roaming otherwise -- rarely near a flat surface to use the Joy-Cons' mouse functionality. As a lap desk owner, fan and evangelizer, lap desks are the obvious answer to the mouse problem: portable around the house,

More than a million people watched online as details of the long awaited successor to the hit console were announced.

After Trump's tariffs, an immediate question now is what this might do to the pricing of the just-announced, already expensive Switch 2.

The $49.99 Genki Joy-Station looks like a sleek way to avoid the annoying juggling act of keeping more than two Joy-Cons charged, with some additional, well thought-out functional

NVIDIA said the Switch 2's DLSS support helps to give the console "ten times" the graphical performance of the original Switch. The tech lets games render games in a lower resolution, then uses trained AI models and dedicated Tensor Cores to fill in detail.