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Nintendo provides new details about Switch 2
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The Japanese gaming company Nintendo has brought the Switch console to gamers 146 million times. Now the next generation of hardware is in the starting blocks – it should be ready at the beginning of April. It's a big bet on the future of the industry.
At the beginning of April, Nintendo plans to announce details of the next generation of its Switch game console, which is scheduled to come onto the market this year. Initially, the Japanese gaming company only released a two-minute long video in which the Switch 2 could be seen. The next Switch is of great importance for Nintendo – and also the entire gaming industry. Nintendo's future depends heavily on whether customers accept the Switch 2.
Accordingly, Nintendo is maintaining the concept that the console can be used both on the go and at home on the TV. In the future, the control controllers will be held by magnets on the display in the middle, instead of being pushed in as before. The video also suggested that the new console could also be the first new edition of the successful game “Mario Kart” in more than ten years.
The Switch, released in 2017, sold more than 146 million devices in various modifications. However, sales are now falling – and with them the profits of the traditional company. According to current information, the second generation will, among other things, have a larger display and support a higher resolution on the television for sharper images.
But the Switch 2 is also an industry-wide test of how appealing consoles still are to consumers. In recent years, streaming services have become more popular, in which the games run on servers on the Internet and are only transmitted to the user's devices. You no longer need a special console for this. Hardcore gamers, on the other hand, rely on upgraded PCs. However, Nintendo is still committed to only allowing full-fledged games with its characters like Super Mario to be played on its own consoles.
