{"id":17421,"date":"2025-01-22T16:37:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T15:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/the-nintendo-switch-2-reveal-was-exciting-but-will-it-entice-you-to-upgrade\/"},"modified":"2025-01-22T16:37:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T15:37:21","slug":"the-nintendo-switch-2-reveal-was-exciting-but-will-it-entice-you-to-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/the-nintendo-switch-2-reveal-was-exciting-but-will-it-entice-you-to-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nintendo Switch 2 reveal was exciting \u2013 but will it entice you to upgrade?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The newly announced console enters a crowded market making some wonder that without a radical rehaul will loyal customers feel the need to get the new one?<\/p>\n<p>Well, it happened: Nintendo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2025\/jan\/16\/nintendo-announces-its-next-console-the-switch-2\">announced the Switch 2<\/a> the day after last week\u2019s newsletter went out. And a strange announcement it was.<\/p>\n<p>The short trailer (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=itpcsQQvgAQ\">which you can watch here<\/a>) tells you everything we know at this point: everything about the machine except for its appearance remains a mystery. Nintendo has scheduled a reveal event for April that will presumably be more fulsome. This was likely Nintendo\u2019s plan all along, and the trailer was released early following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2025\/jan\/15\/greater-power-magnetic-controllers-and-backwards-compatibility-what-to-expect-when-nintendo-announces-the-switch-2\">flood of leaked information<\/a> about the console. They provided no release date, no details \u2013 and no games.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2025\/jan\/22\/pushing-buttons-nintendo-switch-2-keza-macdonald\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/49ba6a9c295acbd131abd301e3a3bc888ec347d3\/91_13_2924_1755\/master\/2924.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7e7aae57fb71dac5a2cd8e089d161ca8\" title=\"The Nintendo Switch 2 reveal was exciting \u2013 but will it entice you to upgrade?\" \/>The newly announced console enters a crowded market making some wonder that without a radical rehaul will loyal customers feel the need to get the new one?<br \/>\nWell, it happened: Nintendo announced the Switch 2 the day after last week\u2019s newsletter went out. And a strange announcement it was.<br \/>\nThe short trailer (which you can watch here) tells you everything we know at this point: everything about the machine except for its appearance remains a mystery. Nintendo has scheduled a reveal event for April that will presumably be more fulsome. This was likely Nintendo\u2019s plan all along, and the trailer was released early following a flood of leaked information about the console. They provided no release date, no details \u2013 and no games. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newly announced console enters a crowded market making some wonder that without a radical rehaul will loyal customers feel the need to get the new one? Well, it happened: Nintendo announced the Switch 2 the day after last week\u2019s newsletter went out. And a strange announcement it was. The short trailer (which you can &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/the-nintendo-switch-2-reveal-was-exciting-but-will-it-entice-you-to-upgrade\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Nintendo Switch 2 reveal was exciting \u2013 but will it entice you to upgrade?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17421"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}