Release date, price and new games announced

Nintendo revealed that Switch 2, the long -awaited successor of one of the best -selling consoles in history, will be released on June 5.

Fans are impatiently waiting to know more since January, when the Japanese game giant has finished months of speculation with Confirm the basic information on the new device.

In an online direct online presentation online, looked at by more than a million people, he gave more details on the equipment, and confirming that he would be accompanied by Mario Kart World, a new edition of the most famous game in Nintendo.

He also announced a series of other new titles for the console, including Elden Ring and Street Fighter 6.

The company said the new device would have better graphics and audio than its predecessor, and a cat button allowing players to talk to each other while playing.

The price will vary in various markets, but in the United Kingdom, it will sell £ 395, or £ 429 with Mario Kart.

The president of Nintendo Shuntaro Furukawa described the new console as “jumping”, eight years after the release of the original switch.

In addition to a huge interest in the device itself, the fans wanted to discover which games they will be able to play it.

The most catchy was Mario Kart World – in which the franchise seems to have received a significant refreshment.

Water graphics, characters adjustments, large tentacular tracks seen remotely with weather conditions and variable climates – Nintendo shows firmly to fans that this console has more under the hood than its predecessor.

The company also presented the Donkey Kong Bananza adventure platform and Kirby Air Riders, a series of a favorite game of fans released in 2005 – both to come later this year.

Nintendo has also confirmed that “compatible” switching games will work on Switch 2. Others will get Switch 2 editions, which means that they will have graphics and updated gameplay.

On the Nintendo Store website, the digital versions of Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza are at the price of £ 66.99 and £ 58.99 respectively.

The physical versions are both £ 8 more expensive.

The games produced by third -party developers – like Elden Ring – are also notable because some are the kind of high -level games that have generally not come to Nintendo Consoles in recent years.

They include:

• Cyberpunk 2077
• Final Fantasy VII Remake Interrograde
• Hitman World of Assassination
• Hades 2
• Hollow knight: Silksong

The Elden Ring developer, FromSoftware, also revealed a new multiplayer game – Duskbloods – as an exclusive Switch 2 to come in 2026.

The console itself has a larger screen than its 7.9 -inch predecessor, with a better screen – 1080p compared to the 720p of the switch, with the HDR support and up up to 120fps.

Marginal changes – such as larger buttons and control sticks – will draw attention. But more interesting is that the two controls can be used as mice, as with a PC, in supported games.

Nintendo maintains that its 3D audio technology will create a surround sound experience, but it is unlikely that it is the functionality that swings people to pick up the device.

256 GB of internal storage is a large upgrade, because Nintendo has always been stingy on this front.

The C -of the switch controller button is the new equipment bit for switch 2.

It seems to help control a vocal chat function integrated into the system.

Players appear at the bottom of the screen, appearing almost as a zoom or teams – with a fairly low image frequency screen – and Nintendo claims that its technology will insulate your voice, regardless of background noise.

The nintendo original switch is one of the best -selling consoles of all time, having moved more than 150 million units since its release in 2017.

Only the PS2 of Sony and the own DS of Nintendo were more popular.

Its hybrid format – allowing players to use it as a portable device or connected to a TV in a more traditional domestic console configuration – is considered one of the major reasons for its success.

Even if the new device reproduces this level of interest, it may need to overcome other challenges.

Console launches are often struck by material shortages – a trend that was particularly obvious when the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series consoles were launched at the end of 2020 during the COVVI -19 pandemic.

Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa previously told investors that the long expectation that the new console was partly to guarantee that the company could make enough machines to meet demand.

Since then, the world trading table has been affected by President Donald Trump launching a wave of prices – it is not yet clear how they could affect the production and sales of Switch 2.