{"id":18357,"date":"2025-04-03T13:37:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T11:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/i-got-to-play-nintendo-switch-2-hands-on-with-2025s-gaming-must-have\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T13:37:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T11:37:16","slug":"i-got-to-play-nintendo-switch-2-hands-on-with-2025s-gaming-must-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/i-got-to-play-nintendo-switch-2-hands-on-with-2025s-gaming-must-have\/","title":{"rendered":"I got to play Nintendo Switch 2: hands-on with 2025\u2019s gaming must-have"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are new ways to catch goombas, a Mario Kart battle royale and innovative gameplay ideas abound, but Nintendo will need to work hard to sell its next-gen machine <\/p>\n<p>After Nintendo\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2025\/apr\/02\/nintendo-reveals-switch-2-console-due-to-launch-on-5-june\">intriguing hour-long live stream<\/a> on Wednesday, we now know a lot more about its follow-up to the phenomenally successful Switch. But how does the Switch 2 play? After the online presentation, I got to spend about four hours road-testing the new console at a press event in the Grand Palais, Paris, the box-white exhibition hall adorned in Nintendo red and lined with rows of high-end TV screens and Switch 2 consoles. There was also a 90-minute roundtable with three of the masterminds behind the console: Tetsuya Sasaki (hardware design lead), Kouichi Kawamoto (producer) and Takuhiro Dohta (director). Here\u2019s what I learned.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2025\/apr\/03\/i-got-to-play-the-nintendo-switch-2-all-new-slight-improvements-revealed\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b7bd62679d4b2d2c22af4e43ac4c99344e75d31b\/368_0_4664_2800\/master\/4664.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b68aa6614a0a08d7b802423a8ba3fc42\" title=\"I got to play Nintendo Switch 2: hands-on with 2025\u2019s gaming must-have\" \/>There are new ways to catch goombas, a Mario Kart battle royale and innovative gameplay ideas abound, but Nintendo will need to work hard to sell its next-gen machine<br \/>\nAfter Nintendo\u2019s intriguing hour-long live stream on Wednesday, we now know a lot more about its follow-up to the phenomenally successful Switch. But how does the Switch 2 play? After the online presentation, I got to spend about four hours road-testing the new console at a press event in the Grand Palais, Paris, the box-white exhibition hall adorned in Nintendo red and lined with rows of high-end TV screens and Switch 2 consoles. There was also a 90-minute roundtable with three of the masterminds behind the console: Tetsuya Sasaki (hardware design lead), Kouichi Kawamoto (producer) and Takuhiro Dohta (director). Here\u2019s what I learned. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are new ways to catch goombas, a Mario Kart battle royale and innovative gameplay ideas abound, but Nintendo will need to work hard to sell its next-gen machine After Nintendo\u2019s intriguing hour-long live stream on Wednesday, we now know a lot more about its follow-up to the phenomenally successful Switch. But how does the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/i-got-to-play-nintendo-switch-2-hands-on-with-2025s-gaming-must-have\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I got to play Nintendo Switch 2: hands-on with 2025\u2019s gaming must-have<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18358,"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\/18357"}],"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=18357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}