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The Nintendo Switch 2, hands-on: It’s pretty good!


At a presentation unveiling the Nintendo Switch 2, longtime Nintendo producer Kouichi Kawamoto revealed that at one point, he considered calling the

I have seen the contours of Bowser’s scales, the spaces in between each tuft of Donkey Kong’s fur… which we don’t really need to see, but you can imagine how this step up can make games like Tears of the Kingdom look that much more magnificent. Will this finally answer my years-old question of how fantastical courses like Rainbow Road and real tracks like London Loop can exist in the same game where Mario is canonically from Flatbush, Brooklyn? On the Nintendo side, titles like Mario Kart World, Metroid Prime 4, and Donkey Kong Bananza, and Kirby AirRiders have already been announced, and it’s likely that the next main series Pokémon game (not Legends Z-A) will bring us onto the Switch 2.

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