The Nintendo Swap is the Japanese sport firm’s second best-selling product of all time, bested solely by the Nintendo DS. Right this moment, it introduced the long-rumored sequel, the Nintendo Swap 2.
The Nintendo Swap 2 enhancements
Up to now, all we’ve got is a wordless teaser video, which as a substitute of telling the story, reveals the brand new enhancements in dramatic, 3D rendered flybys (a mode launched years in the past by Apple’s advertising and marketing crew). The story it tells, nonetheless, continues to be compelling: an even bigger display screen that will probably be simpler to see, lengthened Pleasure-Cons that will probably be simpler to carry, and a thinner total body.

Look nearer, and also you’ll see much more: a kickstand that may lounge deep like a Microsoft Floor, a second USB-C port (for equipment?), and a brand new flange across the Pleasure-Con sticks—which feels prefer it should deal with the Swap’s solely actual design flaw, its fragile analog controllers that were prone to drifting (even when its advantages are largely psychological—notice how Nintendo highlights this structural reinforcement with the Sony-black system’s uncommon pops of coloration).

Apart from that, the dock sticks round (however with rounded corners now, which ought to make it extra comfy to position in and seize out), and the sport cartridge slot is unchanged—sure, Nintendo clarfieis it can assist Swap 1 video games with backward compatibility typically.
Swap 2’s new UX options
The Swap excited the world as a result of it was all about flexibility—pay it in your lap, in your desk, in your TV! Pop off the controllers, swing them round, mix them into a brand new controller. Whereas methods just like the Nintendo Wii made movement controls mainstream, the Swap stitched such novel UX into the better material of console play.

Swap 2 pushes the boundaries additional, however subtly. Pleasure-Cons now snap proper on and off the Swap relatively than sliding in—which is probably going Nintendo’s model of the iPhone Magsafe. This can make utilizing the system extra nice day-to-day, however given how briskly switching modes seems to be, possibly it can introduce novel sport mechanics.
The video additionally teases a brand new use for the Pleasure-Cons—laid on a desk, they now seem to work like a mouse. How advantageous will this one UX mechanic be? Maybe it gained’t matter past one or two video games (just like the SNES mouse utilized in Mario Paint). Then once more, PC gaming has by no means been greater, which nonetheless champions the mouse for first-person-shooters specifically. This single instrument may make porting some titles extra comfy.

When will we get the Swap 2 and what’s going to it value?
Nintendo declares within the video that the Swap 2 will arrive in “2025.” There isn’t a pricing info but (rumors place it right around the $300 launch price of the unique Swap), however the firm will share extra in one in all its Nintendo Direct bulletins on April 2nd.