A look at the Switch 2 leaks and the author's disappointment with the potential lack of innovative design compared to previous Nintendo consoles.
As the onslaught of Switch 2 leaks continues, and most especially the very convincing appearance of what are likely to be the new console’s Joy-Cons, a weird sense hit me: I’m a bit disappointed. I love the Switch, I think it’s a wonderful piece of tech, and I would really love to have an upgraded version of it that’s capable of running more powerful games, and perhaps even running its own store software.
But at the same time I realize, if that’s what we’re getting, it also feels like a big anticlimax. One of the things Nintendo has been so reliable for is bizarre innovation. For generations, it’s been utterly impossible to guess what the company might create next, given the complete surprises of, say, a two-screen clamshell touch-screen portable gaming device, or a gesture-led under-TV console that shines best when the whole family is prancing around together. Even the failed Wii U that the Switch replaced was a ludicrous combination of console and a giant handheld screen as a controller. The Switch was just as imaginative, a handheld and dockable console, with detachable controllers, in wild defiance of the tech-first, ever-larger boxes sold by rivals. Even when Nintendo was creating iterative updates for its most successful products, like the GBA SP follow-up to the Game Boy Advance, or the DSi XL evolution of the original Nintendo DS, it seemed to be doing something else at the same time. Between the DS and the DSi we also got the Wii! The GameCube came out the same year as the Game Boy Advance! But, given the extraordinary scrutiny being put on every patent and parts manufacturer Nintendo is attached to, it seems vanishingly unlikely that there’s some secret second project being hidden behind the noise of the as-yet unnamed second Switch. And the Switch 2? It’s another Switch
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