(upbeat music)<br>- Yo, MKBHD here.<br>Welcome to your first look and hands-on<br>with the Nintendo Switch 2,<br>and this is everything you need to know.<br>It was obviously one of the hottest<br>and most anticipated new<br>consoles in a long time.<br>So, when Nintendo invited me<br>to this little hands-on in New York City<br>with a few other YouTubers,<br>obviously, I said yes.<br>So, the first Switch, I<br>dunno if you remember,<br>came out in 2017.<br>So, naturally, almost a decade later,<br>there's a bunch of stuff that<br>people, including myself,<br>a mere casual, have been waiting for,<br>for this to be updated.<br>And spoiler alert, they<br>basically, I think,<br>hit every single one of those things.<br>But there is one big asterisk<br>kind of overhanging all of it.<br>So, general form factor wise,<br>the shape, very familiar.<br>It looks like a Switch.<br>You've probably already<br>seen the images online,<br>but it is noticeably bigger.<br>So, it's the same thickness<br>as the first generation,<br>but it feels thinner<br>because everything's kind of<br>spread out more, it's bigger.<br>The body's bigger, the<br>Joy-Cons are bigger,<br>and it's mostly driven<br>by this big, new screen.<br>So, it's now a 7.9-inch<br>display upfront, up from 6.2.<br>And this is still an LCD,<br>but it's now a 1080p<br>variable refresh rate LCD<br>that gets up to 120 hertz<br>and it just looks so much<br>better than the original Switch.<br>It looks plenty bright to me too.<br>It supports HDR as well.<br>Notably, it's not an OLED though,<br>so it doesn't have the<br>perfectly inky blacks<br>or the battery life advantages<br>that come with an OLED.<br>I do kind of think that we're<br>eventually also going to see<br>a Switch 2 OLED.<br>I think that makes sense. It'll<br>probably be in a few years.<br>There's probably also<br>gonna be a Switch 2 Lite<br>in a few years as well.<br>It doesn't mean you<br>have to wait for those,<br>it's just something to keep in mind<br>in the back of your head.<br>But yeah, I'm definitely loving<br>the variable refresh rate up to 120 hertz.<br>Every game they're showing<br>here takes advantage of it.<br>You know how iPhone<br>defenders always love to say,<br>"Oh, people can't tell<br>the difference between 60<br>and 120 hertz, it's no big deal?"<br>But high refresh rate and<br>gaming go hand in hand,<br>so I think a lot of people will appreciate<br>the smoother games<br>and potentially also the<br>smoother UI that comes with it.<br>So, the screen is the biggest improvement.<br>Now, there are some other nice quality<br>of life improvements here,<br>like the full width kickstand<br>that lets you prop it up at a<br>pretty wide variety of angles,<br>including almost all the way down,<br>similar to the Switch OLED,<br>but they added another<br>port up to the top as well.<br>And that makes it easier to charge<br>while the console's kind of<br>sitting on a table or something,<br>since that was a pain before.<br>And it's also perfect for<br>the additional USB type C accessories,<br>which I'll get to in a second.<br>But I think the other<br>obvious biggest upgrade<br>is the new Joy-Cons.<br>So many things are better<br>about these new Joy-Cons.<br>First of all, they are<br>bigger like everything else,<br>which ergonomically is very welcome.<br>The left and right sticks are larger too.<br>There's a new C button<br>down here for Game Chat,<br>which I will also get to in a second.<br>And then they connect to the main console<br>with magnets in a really satisfying way.<br>They basically just<br>slap right onto the side<br>and line up automatically.<br>No slide necessary.<br>Love a good magnet.<br>You get them off by holding<br>this release button here,<br>which is literally just a lever<br>that pushes the Joy-Con<br>off the side of the Switch.<br>And I think it's really nicely calibrated.<br>If you just touch the release<br>button but don't pull,<br>the Joy-Con actually pushes off<br>but then snaps right back on<br>because the magnet is so strong.<br>But if you release and pull,<br>then it just pops off really easily<br>and then you can snap it<br>back on whenever you want<br>with a nice click.<br>Now, the neat thing is most of the Joy-Con<br>is still made of plastic<br>to be lightweight,<br>but at the top here, these SR<br>and SL buttons, first of all,<br>they are way bigger than last gen,<br>but they're also actually<br>made of the metal<br>that the magnets in the<br>console are attracted to.<br>They're steel buttons.<br>So, that's why the connection<br>between the Joy-Cons<br>and the Switch are so strong,<br>is that metal right there.<br>My only worry here is<br>actually just durability.<br>So, you can see when you<br>pull that Joy-Con off,<br>you can see these pins on the Switch,<br>and I kind of wonder how many little kids<br>are gonna bend those pins.<br>Like, there is a tiny bit<br>of wiggle actually built in<br>to hopefully make it not snap too easily.<br>But yeah, there's no way to tell<br>until they start shipping<br>these to real people<br>and we start seeing<br>the stories rolling in,<br>but I'm gonna keep an eye on that.<br>Oh, and there's also<br>stronger-feeling haptics,<br>they're called HD Rumble 2.<br>The Rumble pack is directly<br>attached to the plastic<br>in the back of the Joy-Cons.<br>They feel nice and strong, a<br>little bit more precise too,<br>so that's really nice.<br>And then lastly,<br>each Joy-Con can also be used as a mouse<br>in supporting games.<br>I did not see this one coming.<br>It's a kind of interesting<br>idea, but basically,<br>there's a small optical sensor<br>on the side of the Joy-Con.<br>So, if you turn that Joy-Con horizontally<br>and place that sensor down on a table,<br>you can move it around like<br>a mouse, even rotate it,<br>and that acts as yet another input method<br>that apparently certain games<br>will work pretty well with.<br>I was doing this demo of a<br>wheelchair basketball game,<br>and so it ended up being pretty intuitive.<br>You kind of hold the<br>triggers and push forward<br>and you would move forward in the game.<br>Never would've thought<br>it would work so well,<br>but there's a good amount of sensitivity.<br>Apparently you can do<br>this while swiping forward<br>on your jeans and your<br>lap too if you wanted to.<br>Other surfaces should work as well.<br>In the Nintendo Direct livestream,<br>they also showed this other golf game<br>where you move the putter<br>around and rotate it<br>and then make a stroke<br>using the mouse motion,<br>all on a table like a mouse.<br>So, yeah, I guess that makes sense.<br>We'll see what other games<br>end up using this control.<br>Now, we didn't get a whole<br>lot of other specifics,<br>like the chip it's running,<br>or even how much RAM it<br>has, which admittedly,<br>a lot of Switch buyers<br>just don't care about.<br>But one big spec that they did improve<br>is they've gone from 32 gigs of storage<br>on the original Switch<br>to 256 gigs of storage,<br>and the storage is faster.<br>So, I definitely appreciate this.<br>You can see my Switch<br>home screen behind me.<br>I could only fit three games on my Switch<br>'cause one of 'em is "Rocket League"<br>and it was like 17 gigs.<br>But I also think this<br>will directly relate to<br>how much larger Switch 2<br>games will probably be.<br>So, 256 gigs will feel in line<br>with the larger file sizes,<br>bigger textures, higher<br>resolution, and all that.<br>Switch 2 games will<br>probably also be bigger too.<br>So, thankfully, there is<br>still microSD card support.<br>It lives right here under the hinge again,<br>and you'll specifically have<br>to get a microSD Express card<br>to play games off it on the Switch 2.<br>But I think, generally,<br>they'll be pretty easy to find.<br>I already saw Lexar is gonna be making<br>a one terabyte microSD<br>card just for the Switch 2,<br>so that's awesome.<br>Now, the Switch isn't a<br>Switch without the dock,<br>and the new dock supports<br>4K resolution out to a TV.<br>Love to see that.<br>There's actually also a<br>fan in the Switch 2 dock<br>that turns on while it's docked.<br>So, while it's cranking<br>out that extra resolution,<br>it doesn't get too hot.<br>But from there,<br>I feel like all of the<br>new software features<br>have a bit of a theme.<br>The Switch 2 feels like a<br>much more social console.<br>Like, I think Nintendo<br>saw a ton of success<br>with the original Switch<br>and started thinking about more ways<br>to make it a better experience,<br>because now there are<br>gonna be groups of people<br>where several of them have a Switch.<br>So, when you hit that new<br>C button on the Joy-Con,<br>it brings up this new<br>menu called Game Chat.<br>So, they didn't let us<br>do this in the demos<br>that I tried today,<br>but in Nintendo Direct,<br>you can see the idea is<br>if you have some friends<br>on other Switches gaming<br>at the same time as you,<br>you can all turn your mics<br>on and talk to each other,<br>or even turn screen sharing on<br>to see each other's gameplay<br>live, which is cool.<br>I know a lot of people<br>do FaceTime while gaming<br>and kind of wanna combine<br>the whole experience.<br>So, I personally probably<br>wouldn't do this,<br>but I totally get it.<br>And it's funny, it was<br>actually refreshing seeing this<br>in Nintendo's official footage.<br>You can see the gameplay from other people<br>as you're watching it,<br>it's kind of laggy and it's<br>kind of low resolution,<br>but it's totally fine.<br>This makes me believe more<br>that what we're seeing here<br>is exactly how it'll look.<br>Nintendo didn't wanna make<br>any fake promises, like,<br>"Oh, it'll be 1080p when you<br>watch other people game."<br>But hey, at least you'll have an idea<br>of what's going on on their screen.<br>So, that's cool.<br>But not only that, if you get<br>this optional accessory here,<br>which is called the Switch 2 Camera,<br>this little thing plugs into<br>that top port on the Switch<br>when you're docked,<br>or I think you can even plug it straight<br>into the dock itself.<br>And when you point it at yourself,<br>it can automatically cut<br>you out from the background<br>and put your face next to your gameplay.<br>So, it literally feels<br>like a gaming version<br>of a Zoom call or something, like,<br>everyone can see their friends' faces<br>and their friends' reactions<br>to the games in real time.<br>And some games will<br>even integrate that feed<br>a little more,<br>like putting your face<br>over where an avatar<br>would normally be.<br>It's like video chatting<br>while playing a game.<br>It's not gonna be the<br>highest fidelity thing ever,<br>but it'll be a sort of extra layer on top<br>and makes it feel more social.<br>So, Game Chat is cool<br>when you're in multiple different places,<br>but there's also gonna be<br>situations where multiple people<br>are all gaming in the same<br>physical place with Switches.<br>And so, they built a<br>feature just for that,<br>which is being able to share a game<br>with other people who don't have it yet,<br>up to three other people.<br>So, one Switch 2 is the host,<br>and then up to three other Switches,<br>they don't have to have<br>the game installed at all,<br>it's just one guy goes, "All right, guys,<br>I have this game.<br>We're all gonna play it in the same room.<br>And every one of you now<br>temporarily has this game."<br>And you can play your own<br>perspective of the multiplayer<br>or whatever without having to<br>buy or install the whole thing<br>at that moment.<br>I'm not sure exactly how<br>long it'll take to set up<br>or exactly which games will support it,<br>but a Switch 2 can host<br>and then up to three<br>other Switches can join.<br>It's called GameShare.<br>I like it a lot.<br>And then actually, speaking of games,<br>there's basically gonna<br>be three types of games<br>for the Switch 2.<br>There will be Native Switch 2 games,<br>and those are the ones<br>that are the most optimized<br>and should look the best<br>with the best graphics,<br>potentially taking the most advantage<br>of the extra features and<br>Game Chat and mouse controls.<br>Then there will be Switch 1 games,<br>some of which will be<br>compatible with the Switch 2,<br>it just might not look as good.<br>And then there will be Switch 1 games<br>that get kind of remastered<br>or updated for the Switch 2,<br>so like a Switch 2 version of the game.<br>So, hopefully you don't<br>have to pay a full price<br>for a whole new game.<br>You'll pay a smaller amount<br>for an updated version of<br>the game for the Switch 2.<br>But I think that pretty<br>conveniently brings us<br>to the big asterisk<br>hovering over all of this,<br>which is pricing.<br>See, the Switch 2 is gonna<br>start off at $449 in the US.<br>Now, I've seen mixed<br>reactions to that price.<br>Obviously, the Switch 1 was<br>amazing, it was 300 bucks,<br>but that was almost 10 years ago.<br>So, now, new specs and updates<br>and inflation and tariffs<br>and all of that to me<br>actually makes 449 feel like<br>a pretty reasonable price.<br>The Switch 2 Camera accessory is 50 bucks.<br>Feels about right.<br>There's also a new Switch 2 Pro Controller<br>with new back buttons,<br>plus a headphone jack,<br>and of course the added C button.<br>That'll be around $80.<br>But then the game pricing<br>is where they start to<br>lose people a little bit.<br>It's reported that Switch 2 games<br>are gonna be around 80 bucks<br>just for a digital download Switch 2 game.<br>90 bucks if you want the physical version.<br>That definitely feels really high.<br>There are so many great<br>PC and console games,<br>and even Switch 1 games in the store<br>in the 50 to $60 range right now.<br>"NBA 2K25" is my staple<br>for an expensive game.<br>That's 70 bucks on the PS5.<br>So, pushing that up again,<br>80 to 90 bucks for a Switch 2 game<br>does feel kind of like it's pushing it.<br>And then they also announced<br>this really smart-looking demo<br>game called "Welcome Tour"<br>that basically walks you<br>through all of the features<br>and lets you demo everything<br>and really get to know the Switch 2 well.<br>It kinda reminds me of "Astro's Playroom"<br>on the PlayStation 5, which<br>did the exact same thing.<br>Helped you learn what<br>the DualSense controller<br>was capable of, and that was free.<br>That actually came pre-installed<br>on the PS5 at launch.<br>And Nintendo has even done<br>"Wii Sports" in the past,<br>which was a free demo game<br>that came on the Nintendo Wii<br>and low key turned out to<br>be one of the greatest games<br>of all time.<br>The Nintendo Switch 2<br>demo game though is paid.<br>It's not included for free.<br>It's gonna be like 10 or 20 bucks<br>or something like that in the store.<br>But even just having it<br>paid at all to me seems like<br>a huge miss.<br>There's gonna be so many people<br>that are not going to experience it,<br>that are not going to be<br>able to fully walk through it<br>and understand and get<br>to know their Switch 2<br>because no one's gonna<br>go buy that demo game.<br>I don't know what they<br>were thinking there.<br>Other than that though,<br>the Switch 2 seems pretty<br>sweet, not gonna lie.<br>I really like it.<br>There's a reason the original Switch<br>was one of the best-selling<br>consoles of all time.<br>It was well-priced, great<br>form factor, very versatile,<br>for me, the perfect airplane game console.<br>I would say the signs are pointing<br>to Switch 2 also being really good again.<br>But there are also definitely<br>some things we still don't know.<br>Like, for example, we<br>obviously don't know the chip<br>and the RAM.<br>We do know it's confirmed<br>that there is some<br>amount of DLSS happening.<br>I would assume that to do 4K on a TV,<br>there's some amount of<br>upscaling happening,<br>we just don't know exactly how much yet.<br>But then also battery life,<br>how similar or different will<br>battery life potentially be<br>from the first Switch?<br>Having a bigger, higher refresh rate,<br>higher resolution screen<br>tends to eat battery life,<br>but it's also bigger, so the<br>battery capacity can be bigger.<br>So, maybe it just balances<br>out and it's similar.<br>TBD, I don't think fast<br>charging is announced<br>or anything crazy like that.<br>But then also things like durability<br>and whether they fix Joy-Con drift or no.<br>These are all things that are TBD<br>and that I think would<br>be great to find out<br>for a full review.<br>So, maybe get subscribed<br>if you're interested in<br>seeing something like that<br>to be among the first to see it.<br>And lemme know in the comments down below<br>what else you wanna see.<br>Now, if you're one of those people<br>who's just gonna pre-order no matter what,<br>then I highly recommend<br>checking out the Killswitch<br>from channel sponsor Dbrand.<br>See, originally the<br>Killswitch line was developed<br>for the Steam Deck and<br>then ended up being one<br>of the best possible Steam Deck cases.<br>So, now they're taking this same formula<br>and making it for the Switch<br>2, plus some cool extras.<br>So, there's a travel cover.<br>So, just like the Steam Deck version,<br>it will be super protective<br>so you can toss it in a bag<br>or wherever else you want.<br>But then for the Switch 2,<br>they added a game card holder.<br>So, you can hold up to 10 games with you,<br>and you can even see them<br>through the frosted finish.<br>They've also added some<br>ergonomic hand grips.<br>And unlike other Switch cases,<br>they also detach with the Joy-Cons.<br>But the whole point of the Switch 2<br>is that when you take<br>it with you on the go,<br>you can dock it when you get home, right?<br>Most cases aren't going<br>to fit inside the dock,<br>but Dbrand solved that one<br>too with a dock adapter<br>that they're including<br>with every purchase.<br>So, if you wanna check 'em out,<br>hit 'em up at dbrand.com/switch2.<br>Either way, thanks for<br>watching this first look.<br>Lemme know what you're<br>thinking in the comments below,<br>and I'll catch you the next one.<br>Peace.<br>(upbeat music) yo MKBHD here welcome to your first look<br>and Hands-On with the Nintendo switch 2<br>and this is everything you need to know<br>it's obviously one of the hottest and<br>most anticipated new consoles in a long<br>time so when Nintendo invited me to this<br>little Hands-On in New York City with a<br>few other YouTubers obviously I said yes<br>so the first switch I don't know if you<br>remember came out in 2017 so naturally<br>almost a decade later there's a bunch of<br>stuff that people including myself air<br>casual have been waiting for for this to<br>be updated and spoiler alert they<br>basically I think hit every single one<br>of those things but there is one big<br>asterisk kind of overhanging all of it<br>so general form factor wise this shape<br>very familiar it looks like a switch<br>like you've probably already seen the<br>images online but it is noticeably<br>bigger so it's the same thickness as the<br>first generation but it feels thinner<br>because everything's kind of spread out<br>more it's bigger the body's bigger the<br>joycons are bigger and it's it's mostly<br>driven by this big new screen so it's<br>now a 7.9 in display up front up from<br>6.2 and this is still an LCD but it's<br>now a 1080p variable refresh rate LCD<br>that gets up to 120 HZ and it just looks<br>so much better than the original switch<br>it looks plenty bright to me too it<br>supports HDR as well notably it's not an<br>OLED though so it doesn't have the<br>perfectly Inky blacks or the battery<br>life advantages that come with an OLED<br>I do kind of think that we're eventually<br>also going to see a switch to OLED I<br>think that makes sense it'll probably be<br>in a few years there's probably also<br>going to be a switch to light in a few<br>years as well doesn't mean you have to<br>wait for those it's just something to<br>keep in mind in the back of your head<br>but yeah I'm definitely loving the<br>variable refresh rate up to 120 htz<br>every game they're showing here takes<br>advantage of it you know how iPhone<br>Defenders always love to say oh you know<br>people can't tell the difference between<br>60 and 120 Herz it's no big deal but you<br>know High refresh rate and gaming go<br>hand in hand and so I think a lot of<br>people will appreciate the smoother<br>games and potentially also the smoother<br>UI that comes with it so the screen is<br>the biggest Improvement now there are<br>some other you know nice quality of life<br>improvements here like the full width<br>kickstand that lets you prop it up at a<br>pretty wide variety of angles including<br>almost all the way down similar to the<br>switch OLED but they added another Port<br>up to the top as well and that makes it<br>easier to charge while the console's<br>kind of sitting on a table or something<br>since that was a pain before and it's<br>also perfect for the additional USB<br>type-c accessories which I'll get to in<br>a second but I think the other obvious<br>biggest upgrade is the new joycons so<br>many things are better about these new<br>joycons first of all they are bigger<br>like everything else which ergonomically<br>is very welcome uh the left and right<br>sticks are larger too there's a new C<br>button down here for game chat which I<br>will also get to in a second and then<br>they connect to the main console with<br>magnets in a really satisfying way they<br>basically just slap right onto to the<br>side and line up automatically no slide<br>necessary love a good magnet you get<br>them off by holding this release button<br>here which is literally just a lever<br>that pushes the joycon off the side of<br>the switch and I think it's really<br>nicely calibrated if you just touch the<br>release button but don't pull the<br>joy-con actually pushes off but then<br>snaps right back on because the magnet<br>is so strong but if you release and pull<br>then it just pops off really easily and<br>then you can snap it back on whenever<br>you want with a nice click<br>now the neat thing is most of the joyon<br>is still made of plastic to be<br>lightweight but at the top here these Sr<br>and SL buttons first of all they are way<br>bigger than last gen but they're also<br>actually made of the metal that the<br>magnets in the console are attracted to<br>they're steel buttons so that's why the<br>connection between the joycons and the<br>switch are so strong it's that metal<br>right there my only worry here is<br>actually just durability so you can see<br>when you when you pull that joycon off<br>you can see these pins on the switch and<br>I kind of wonder how many little kids<br>are going to bend those pins like there<br>is a tiny bit of Wiggle actually built<br>in to hopefully make it not snap too<br>easily but yeah there's no way to tell<br>until they start shipping these to real<br>people and we start seeing the stories<br>rolling in but I'm going to keep an eye<br>on that oh and there's also stronger<br>feeling haptics they're called HD Rumble<br>2 the rumble pack is directly attached<br>to the plastic in the back of the<br>joycons they feel nice and strong a<br>little bit more precise too so that's<br>really nice and then lastly each joy-con<br>can also be used as a mouse in<br>supporting games I did not see this one<br>coming it's kind of interesting idea but<br>basically there's a small Optical sensor<br>on the side of the joyon so if you turn<br>that joyon horizontally and place that<br>sensor down on a table you can move it<br>around like a mouse even rotate it and<br>that acts as yet another input method<br>that apparently certain games will work<br>pretty well with I was doing this demo<br>of a wheelchair basketball game and so<br>it ended up being pretty intuitive you<br>kind of hold the triggers and push<br>forward and you would move forward in<br>the game never would have thought it<br>would work so well but there's a good<br>amount of sensitivity apparently you can<br>do this while swiping forward on your<br>jeans and your lap too if you wanted to<br>other surfaces should work as well in<br>the Nintendo Direct live stream they<br>also showed this other golf game where<br>you move the putter around and rotate it<br>and then make a stroke using the mouse<br>motion all on a table like a mouse so<br>yeah I guess that makes sense see what<br>other games end up using this control<br>now we didn't get a whole lot of other<br>specifics like the chip it's running or<br>even how much RAM it has uh which<br>admittedly you know a lot of switch<br>buyers just don't care about um but one<br>big spec that they did improve is<br>they've gone from 32 gigs of storage on<br>the original switch to 256 gigs of<br>storage and the storage is faster so I<br>definitely appreciate this you can see<br>my switch home screen behind me I could<br>only fit three games on my switch<br>because one of them is rocket league and<br>it was like 17 gigs<br>but I also think this will directly<br>relate to how much larger switch 2 games<br>will probably be so 256 gigs will feel<br>in line with the larger file sizes you<br>know bigger textures higher resolution<br>and all that switch 2 games will<br>probably also be bigger too so<br>thankfully there is still micr SD card<br>support it lives right here under the<br>hinge again and you'll specifically have<br>to get a micr SD Express card to play<br>games off it on the switch 2 but I think<br>generally they'll be pretty easy to find<br>I already saw R is going to be making a<br>one tbte micro SD card just for the<br>switch to so that's awesome now the<br>switch isn't a switch without the dock<br>and the new Doc supports 4K resolution<br>out to a TV love to see that there's<br>actually also a fan in the switch to Doc<br>that turns on while it's docked so while<br>it's cranking out that extra resolution<br>it doesn't get too hot but from there I<br>feel like all the new software features<br>have a bit of a theme this switch 2<br>feels like a much more social console<br>like there was I I think Nintendo saw a<br>ton of success with the original switch<br>and started thinking about more ways to<br>make it a better experience because now<br>there's there's going to be groups of<br>people where several of them have a<br>switch so when you hit that new C button<br>on the joycon it brings up this new menu<br>called game chat so they didn't let us<br>do this in the demos that I tried today<br>but in Nintendo Direct you can see the<br>idea is if you have some friends on<br>other switches gaming at the same time<br>as you you can all turn your mics on and<br>talk to each other or even turn screen<br>screen sharing on to see each other's<br>gaml live which is cool I know a lot of<br>people do FaceTime while gaming and kind<br>of want to combine the whole experience<br>so I personally probably wouldn't do<br>this but I totally get it and it's funny<br>it was actually refreshing seeing this<br>in Nintendo's official footage you can<br>see the gameplay from other people as<br>you're watching it is it's kind of laggy<br>and it's kind of low resolution but it's<br>totally fine like this makes me believe<br>more that what we're seeing here is<br>exactly how it'll look like Nintendo<br>didn't want to make any promises like oh<br>it'll be 1080p when you watch other<br>people game but hey at least you'll have<br>an idea of what's going on in their<br>screen so that's cool but not only that<br>if you get this optional accessory here<br>which is called the switch to camera<br>this little thing plugs into that top<br>port on the switch when you're docked or<br>I think you can even plug it straight<br>into the dock itself and when you point<br>it at yourself it can automatically cut<br>you out from the background and put your<br>face next to your gameplay so it<br>literally feels like a gaming version of<br>a zoom call or something like everyone<br>can see their friends faces and their<br>friends reactions to the games in real<br>time and some games will even integrate<br>that feed a little more like putting<br>your face over where an avatar would<br>normally be it's just it's like video<br>chatting while playing a game it's not<br>going to be the highest fidelity thing<br>ever but it'll be a sort of extra layer<br>on top and makes it feel more social so<br>game chat is cool when you're in<br>multiple different places but there's<br>also going to be situations where<br>multiple people are all gaming in the<br>same physical place with switches and so<br>they built a feature just for that which<br>is being able to share a game with other<br>people who don't have it yet up to three<br>other people so one switch to is the<br>host and then up to three other switches<br>they don't have to have the game<br>installed at all just one guy goes all<br>right guys I'll have this game we're all<br>going to play it in the same room and<br>every one of you now temporarily has<br>this game and you can play your own<br>perspective of the multiplayer whatever<br>without having to buy or install the<br>whole thing at that moment I'm not sure<br>exactly how long it'll take to set up or<br>like exactly which games will support it<br>but a switch 2 can host and then up to<br>three other switches can join it's<br>called game share I like it a lot and<br>then actually speaking of games there's<br>basically going to be three types of<br>games for the switch 2 there will be<br>native switch 2 games those are the ones<br>that are the most optimized and should<br>look the best with the best graphics<br>potentially taking the most advantage of<br>the extra features and game chat and<br>mouse controls then there will be switch<br>one games some of which will be<br>compatible with the switch 2 just might<br>not look as good and then there will be<br>switch one games that get kind of<br>remastered or updated for the switch 2<br>so like a switch 2 version of the game<br>so hopefully you don't have to pay a<br>full price for a whole new game you'll<br>pay a smaller amount for an updated<br>version of the game for the switch 2 but<br>I think that pretty conveniently brings<br>us to the big asterisk hovering over all<br>of this which is pricing see the switch<br>2 is going to start off at<br>$449 in the US now I've seen mixed<br>reactions to that price obviously the<br>switch one was amazing it was 300 bucks<br>but that was almost 10 years ago so now<br>you know new specs and updates and<br>inflation and tariffs and all of that to<br>me actually makes $4.49 feel like a<br>pretty reasonable price the switch to<br>camera accessory is 50 bucks feels about<br>right there's also a new Switch 2 Pro<br>controller with new back buttons plus a<br>headphone jack and of course the added C<br>button that'll be around $80 but then<br>the game pricing is where they start to<br>lose people a little bit<br>it's reported that switch 2 games are<br>going to be around 80 bucks just for a<br>digital download switch 2 game 90 bucks<br>if you want the physical version that<br>definitely feels really high there are<br>so many great PC and console games and<br>even switch one games in the store in<br>like the $50 to $60 range right now NBA<br>2k2 is like my staple for an expensive<br>game that's 70 bucks on the PS5 so<br>pushing that up again 80 to 90 bucks for<br>a switch 2 game does feel kind of like<br>it's pushing it and then they also<br>announced this really smart looking demo<br>game called Welcome tour that basically<br>walks you through all the features and<br>let you demo everything and really get<br>to know the switch too well kind of<br>reminds me of Astro's playroom on the<br>PlayStation 5 which did the exact same<br>thing helped you learn what the Dual<br>sense controller was capable of and that<br>was free that actually came<br>pre-installed on the PS5 at launch and<br>Nintendo has even done Wii Sports in the<br>past which was a free demo game that<br>came on the Nintendo Nintendo Wii and<br>lowkey turned out to be one of the<br>greatest games of all time the Nintendo<br>switch 2 demo game though is paid it's<br>not included for free it's it's going to<br>be like 10 or 20 bucks or something like<br>that in the store but even just having<br>it paid at all to me seems like a huge<br>Miss that's going to be so many people<br>that are not going to experience it that<br>are not going to be able to fully walk<br>through it and understand and get to<br>know their switch to because no one's<br>going to go buy that demo game I don't<br>know what they were thinking there other<br>than that though the switch 2 seems<br>pretty sweet not going to lie I really<br>like it there's a reason the original<br>switch was one of the best selling<br>consoles of all time it was well priced<br>great form factor very versatile for me<br>the perfect airplane game console I<br>would say the signs are pointing to<br>switch to also being really good again<br>but there are also definitely some<br>things we still don't know like for<br>example we obviously don't know the Chip<br>And The Ram we do know it's confirmed<br>that there is some amount of dlss<br>happening I would assume that to do 4k<br>on a TV there's some amount of upscaling<br>happening we just don't know exactly how<br>much yet but then also battery life how<br>similar or different will battery life<br>potentially be from the first switch you<br>know having a bigger higher refresh rate<br>higher resolution screen tends to eat<br>battery life but it's also bigger so the<br>battery capacity can be bigger so maybe<br>it just balances out and it's similar<br>TBD I don't think fast charging is<br>announced or anything crazy like that<br>but then also things like durability and<br>whether they fix joycon drift or not<br>these are all things that are TBD and<br>then I think would be great to find out<br>for a full review so maybe get<br>subscribed if you're interested in<br>seeing something like that to be among<br>the first to see it and let me know in<br>the comments down below what else you<br>want to see now if you're one of those<br>people who's just going to pre-order no<br>matter what then I highly recommend<br>checking out the kill switch from<br>Channel sponsor dbrand see originally<br>the kill switch line was developed for<br>the steam deck and that ended up being<br>one of the best possible steam deck<br>cases so now they're taking this same<br>formula and making it for the switch to<br>plus some cool extras so there's a<br>travel cover so just like the steam deck<br>version it will be super protective so<br>you can toss it in a bag or wherever<br>else you want but then for the switch 2<br>they added a game card holder so you can<br>hold up to 10 games with you and you can<br>even see them through the Frosted finish<br>they've also added some ergonomic hand<br>grips and unlike other switch cases they<br>also detach with the joycons but the<br>whole point of a switch to is that when<br>you take it with you on the go you can<br>dock it when you get home right most<br>cases aren't going to fit inside the<br>dock but dbrand solve that one too with<br>a dock adapter that they're including<br>with every purchase so if you want to<br>check them out hit them up at dbrand.com<br>switch2 either way thanks for watching<br>this first look let me know what you're<br>thinking in the comments below and I'll<br>catch you in the next one peace