And away we go! We hope you're ready, as it's going🅷 to be a big day, so let's get to yapping.

First things first - The 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Nintendo Switch 2 Direct time. As per the House of Mario, The showcase is due to begin at 6am PT, 9am ET, 2pm BST, 3pm CEST. This whole thing should last 🥀an hour, so make sure you've used stocked up on snacks and used the bathroom.

Also, because we're nice, the YouTube link for the s🦂tream itself is included above, so all you have to do is hit play when the time com♍es. There will likely be a countdown, so don't worry if you're a few minutes late to the stream.

And because we're extra nice, we're also keeping track of any rumors and news surrounding 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders, which many massive retailers are ind💖icating may go live later today.

It would be impossible to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:prediཧct what Switch 2 a꧋nnouncements we'll get, so we've tried to do just that. From Switch 2 Enhanced games to grander third-party games, we reckon Nintendo is going big by buildꦿing upon the foundatiꦅons of the OG Switch. But what do you think?

Why We’re So Optimistic About Third Party Games on Nintendo Switch 2 - YouT🃏ube

Josh's point about third-party games interests me, personally. While Nintendo had to make up some ground with the Sw💦itch following the Wii U's less-than-ideal run, former Nintendo marketing leads Kit Ellis and Krysta Yang reckoꦍn the Switch 2 could take things to another level.

"A lot of these big studios got a lot of experience and positive feedback through putting their game on the Steam Deck and translating it to a piece of hardware that's maybe not as powerful as the high-end PC that, of course, they would envision that everyone would have that experience with," Ellis reasons, "but they saw, 'no wait, there's a lot of people that want to play a version that's maybe a little bit dialed down because they want thꦺat extra form factor.

"I'm talking about 🅘Baldur's Gate 3. I'm talkiཧng about Elden Ring. I'm talking about Cyberpunk. The list goes on ... we don't yet know the complete under-the-hood power of the Switch 2, but it's not crazy to say, 'well, if it can run on a Steam Deck it probably can run on a Switch 2, right?'"

It's a fair pitch. Nintendo consoles often appeal as they home the games you can't play elsewhere, t꧅hough playing third-party bangers on the Switch ruled - and the Steam Deck indeed built on that. It feels a little unlike Nintendo to double down on third party, though I suppose that's also an argument to do it.

One person you should not ask about the Switch 2 Direct is Smash Bros creator Masahiro Sakurai. The fan-favorite developer says he 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历🀅史查询:really doesn🎐't know what will be revealed, though he doubts you'll believe him anyway. He's also surprised the whole broadcast is an hour long, though we would point out that the OG Switch Direct that reveal🃏ed Mario Odyssey, Splatoon 2, and more was the same amount of time.

One of the big talking points going into this showcase is the mysterious new 'C' button. We've been left to wonder what it might do, with some thinking it could stand for 'community' or 'connection.' Nintendo is clearly aware of the clamor, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:posting a tease on their newly released a🌸pp just the other day. Thanks, Ninty.

Thﷺankfully, all of our questions will soon be answered. I hop🐼e?

That's not the only question we're asking going into the Direct, naturally. There be rumors afoot that the Switch 2 Joy-Con can be used as some sort of mou♌se. That'd be wild if true, but also, t༒ruthfully, not🥀 unlike Nintendo at all.

If you thought we were done talking about random Switch 2 console features, you'd be wrong. Another early detail from an FCC filing seemingly points to the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Switch 2 Pro Controller adding a headphone🍌 jac✅k.

How big of a deal is that? Well, enough for staff writer Dustin to "forgive Nintendo for being 12 years behind 🧸PlayS🤪tation and Xbox." Maybe. It's hopefully a day of healing here at GR+ towers.

Anyway, despite our excitement for new buttons and mouse-like Joy-Cons, we do expect to see some games today. Mario Kart feels like a given, but there's likely to be much more. Nintendo recently announced that we're getting 7 hours of Switch 2 gamepla😼y this week through Treehouse streams.

Assumi♓ng it's not one big Mario Kart tournament, what would you like to see?

As per our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Switch 2 predictions, Josh reckons it's time for a new 3D Mario game. It has been seven years since Super Mario Odyssey, to be fair, so I reckon he's right. You'd also expect something that shows off t🙈he console's gimmick, like we got with Wii Sports, Nintendo Land, and 1-2-Sw🍷itch.

Whatever comes with the Switch 2, it could end up being a bittersweet era for Nintendo. A pair of formerꦺ marketing leads🎐 say that "everything is about to change"♏ as 40-year veterans like Shigeru Miyamoto will likely near theꦐ end of their tenure.

"It may not mean that the games are going to be bad, it'sܫ just going to feel different," Kit Ellis says 🤪on the Kit & Krysta podcast.

Indeed, alongside the likes of Miyamoto, you've got Metroid veteran Yoshi🦩o Sakamoto and Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma above the age of 60, and they are not the only ones. There will be fresh blood waiting 🌊in the wings, though the idea of such storied developers calling time is suitably sad. Not to bring the tone down or anything.

To bring the vibe back on side, here's the Nintendo of America president asking the big questioꦺns.

I certainly am, Doug. I certainly am.

Josh West here, signing on to let Iain Harris grab a coffee ahead of the Switch 2 Showcase, which is �🌺�set to begin in little over an hour.

You know, I have covered a lot of Nintendo reveals over the years and they are always a deligܫht. If this is your first one, get ready for some fun (and plenty of weird news).

I'm personally quite invested in learning more about the Nintendo Switch 2 price. The world is a very different place to how it was in 2017, and I find it difficult to believe that Nintendo will be able to offer a competitive $299 price point a✤gain.

For context, here's how the competition stacked u😼p recently:

• PS5 Digital Edition – $399
• PS5 w/disk drive – $499
• Xbox Series S – $299
• Xbox Series X – $449
• Steam Deck – Starting at $399

The other 🧸massive news we are expecting out of this Switch 2 presentation is a release date. There's been chatter for a while now that the console will be out in June, 2025, but hopefully Nintendo will confirm that today.

June is a c❀hallenging month, right? How will we fit the Switch 2 in with all the news out of Summer Game Fest, and the reꦛlease of Death Stranding 2 on June 26? We'll find a way, won't we. What a good problem to have.

When Nintend🐈o revealed the original Nintendo Switch, it used The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim to help promote the power of its handheld hybrid.

I can see a world in which Nintendo leans on partnerships with the likes of FromSoftware, Ub😼isoft, Xbox, and others to showcase key hardware improvements.

In fact, there's a lot of noise this week of Halo: The💜 Master Chief Collection being among the Switch 2 game announcements today – albeit in a stripped back fashion. That probably means no multiplayer, which would break my heart, but still, I would quite like to replay through ꦚthe Halo trilogy again.

Xbox has made no secret of its interest in fostering a closer relationship with Nintendo. We're living in a world where Xb𝔍ox Game Studios has largely removed itself from the exclusives-business – Forza Horizon 5 and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle are due to land on PS5 this month – so it's easy to imagine a world where Xbox puts a strong Nintendo collaboration forward from the jump.

The Switch 2 Direct YouTube page is whirring into action, and folks are getting excited by the fact that the presentation can bཧe viewed in 4K. Does this mean that the Switch 2 will have 4K support while docked as some rumors this week have suggested? I don't know about all that, but there's no harm in a little last minute speculation now, is there?

This is your 20 minute warning. If you're tuning in from the USA, good morning – I know it's early, but there's still time to grab yourself a little coffee. For those of you in the UK and Europe, I hope you've f🎃ound a suitable enough excuse to avoid꧒ work and/or school this afternoon.

Speaking of coffee, I'm handing this live coverage back over to Iain Harris for the main eve♋nt. Catch you all on the other side (and remember, there's still time to manifest a new Boktai: The Sun is in your Hands sequel).

This is your 15 minute warning. It's all happening!

The 60 second timer is here! Shuffle on in, gang.

And here we go!

Looks like we're starting🥃 with some good ol' Mario Kart.

DK looking a lot like he does in the Mario film, it must be said.🌠 Why not♛, eh.

We've got a name! Mari🔥o Kart World is the next game in the series, ra𒊎ther than something like MK9.

In fairness, Mario Kart rarely sticks to n🌠umbers, so it comes as little sur𝕴prise.

Ah, there's a detail. You can literally drive anywhere you 🌊like in this one. Where we're goin', we d🍸on't need roads. Unless you'd like roads.

Mario Kart Wor🍬ld encouraging us to take a scenic route and﷽ snap a picture with pals is the energy I'm here for.

That'🥂s it for Mario Kart World, bu♓t we'll be getting a special MK Direct on April 17.

Interestingly, Nintend💧o says the Mario Kart World release date is the same as the Switch 2, bﷺut doesn't say what that is. I suspect we'll have to wait for that detail.

'C' button explanation confirmed! It is, indeed, a chat function. Unlike the OG Switch, you won𝄹't need to download a mobile app to yap with pals.

It's not just the one game, either. You can kick off🔥 a group chat to speak with pals even if ev🦩eryone is playing different games.

Some might say that Nintendo is a tad late to the party with thi💖s one, but hey! Better late than never.

Mind you, if you get the Nintendo 🦂Switch 2 Camera, you can even bring some face time to a party. Proper pandemic vibes there.

Oooh, we're getting something called GameShare. Basically, you can stream certain games to other💧 consoles for a limited time.

Some technical details now🎃. The Switch 2 has double the pixels of its predecessor, can hit 120fps, and, basically, everything is bigger when it comes to buttons. Oh! And the Joy-Con can indeed be used as a mouse, conforming a lot of rumors and speculation.

Heck yeah - the Nintendo Swi🀅tch 2 has eight times the storage of a Switch 1. That means 256gb internal storage.

Well, th♛ere's another game for you. Welcome Tour is an Astro Bot-looking game that shows you how the Switch 2 works. That's one way to replace the manual.

Game cards confirmed! They look as t⛎hey do on the Switch, but they're red ꧟now.

Release date! The Nintendo Switch 2 releaꦕses June 5.

Nintendo Switch 2 Enhanced games have also been confirmed. While the Switch 2 comes with backward compatibility, some games will get a spruce up for the🌃 Switch 2.

Wওhat games are getting enhanced? Why, only The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom.

Kirby and the Forgotten Land! Now we're cookin'

It's not just old games, either. Metroid Prime 4 Beyond and Pokemon Legends: Z-A are also getting🍎 enhanced.

Nin🙈tendo also confirms that, if you own a game on Switch alreadജy, you can pay to upgrade it to the enhanced Switch 2 version.

Oh dang! If you want an ideaཧ of how powerful the Switch 2 is, we're getting Elden Ring.

Hades 2 also con♏firmed! I got through so much Hades on the Switch I can't help but be delighted.

There's plenty more, too. From previous gems like Split Fiction to upcoming games like Tony Haಞwk's Pro Skater 3 + 4.

There's a highlight. Bravely De♊fault! Oh🍷, and Project 007 from the Hitman devs, I suppose.

New game reveal! There is indeed a 🍒Zelda reveal. Hyrule Warriors: Age of♌ Imprisonment tells the tale of the events that came before Tears of the Kingdom.

Throwing it back to the gems, we've just found out that Gamecube is coming to ♓Nintendo 💮Switch Online + Expansion Pack.

Zelda: Windཧwaker or Soulcalibur 2? Oh, go on then.

More games like Poꦅꩵkemon XD coming in due course, too.

We're also getting a Gamecube controlꦍler with the Switch 2's fancy 'C' button, which I imagine will be fantastic news for Smash Bros. fans.

Back to the modern day, Deltarune chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4 are coming to Switch 2๊𓆏! All available when the Switch 2 launches.

And Borderlands 4. That'll be coming to Switch 2 at some point this yearꦫ when the loot 'em up 🐠is ready to go.

Uh, 💎the video appears to be frozen for everyone. Sit tight, gang.

Can still hear the news, th🦩ough. Sounds exciting enough!

The video is now unfrozen, but things are still a tad funky and clear🎐ly not totally align🌠ed.

Cyberpunk 2077 and Final Fantasy 7 Remake are coming to Switch 2! Nintendo clearly trying to offer what the Steam Dec💞k can manage, 🏅and I'm here for it.

Alℱso a reminder that Hollow Knight: Silksong is still real and is targeting a 2025 release.

We're all eating rather well today, aren't we?

Ooooh, new FromSoftware game is up!

That certainly is a FromSoftware frog.

The Duskbloods! A Nintendo Switch 2 exclus🌳ive that's due to land next yಌear.

It's not Bloodborn🥂e 2, b🙈ut I'm calling it Bloodborne 2 anyway.

It's Kirby! What you doin', buddy?

Kirby Air Riders! A new g𒁃ame from no🉐ne other than Sakurai himself.

Last game up now, and it looks like Donkey Kong.

It is! The boy is back.

Monkecraft.

Donkey Kong: Bananza, to offer its real name. This o🎀ne releas⭕es July 17, 2025.

And there you have it! How we feeling team?

It looks like we might have aܫ Nintendo Switch 2 price after all. According to a on Business Wire, the "Nintendo Switch 2 system arrives June 5 for a suggested retail price of $449.99."

Right, now that the dust has settled on the big Switch 2 Direct, we're getting some comments from the console developers themselves. Here's a tidbit: Nintendo nearly cal꧂led the Switch 2 the "Super Nintendo Switch" as a throwback to th𒈔e NES, but "it didn't feel right."

The things we lost.

Nintendo also says it wants the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Switch🗹 2 to "stand the test of time" and not feel "outdated" later on, as 🃏some might feel with the OG Switch.

"Because Switc꧃h has been accepted by many players and played over a long period of time, in the same way, we wanted Switch 2 to be a dedicated game system with performance that can stand the test of time,"🎃 Takuhiro Dohta says.

"We carefully considered the balance between processing capability anꦛd system memory capacity, and we believe we've managed to create a system that players wo♏n't feel is outdated later down the line."

Any thoughts on the new Nintendo Switch 2 controller? Nintendo is promising big thing as it says it wants to create "the pinnacle of all controllers". You can check out our full story here for♍ more de𝔉ets.

Switch 2 doesn't have any Switch 1 hardware inside, which means its backwards compatibility won't be quite as all-encompassing as wജhat ✃we saw on 3DS and Wii U. The system in🏅stead uses "something that’s somewhere in between a software emulator and hardware compatibility" to run old games.

The Switch 2 will offer 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:up to 4k resolution in its TV mode. Sure, the PS4 Pro did it fi𓃲rst in 2016, but after Nintendo fans have waited so long to escape the original Switch's 30fps dungeon, this upgrade feels hu𒉰ge.

Nintendo has more in common with players than we thought – the company once "澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:wished the Switch system's processor was faste🌜r" so that developers had more space⛎ to experiment.

While the Nintendo Switch 2 will cost $450 on its own, and the partially open world zoom-fest Mario Kart World will be priced at $80, the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Switch 2 bundle with a digital version of the racer will be $499𓆏. Yay?

You don't think you're off the hook yet, do you? The Nintendo Switch 2 Direct might be over, but there are still 7 more hours of Nintendo Switch 2 footage to get through with 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Nintendo Treehouse streams sta🌳rting tomorrow.

Turns out that while the stream was frozen, we all missed the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:reveal of a rev🎉ival for Survival🅘 Kids, a decades-old Kon𒈔ami cult classic t𓄧hat was basically a survival game before survival games were cool. Now it's back with a new aesthetic exclusively on Switch 2.