For now, its short list of killer exclusives and even shorter battery life are the only bad points marring an otherwise extraordinary piece of consumer electronics. It’s absolutely state-of-the-art. Buy it.
By CreativeBloq
on June 09, 2025
It’s the small things that really make the Nintendo Switch 2 such a brilliant system. The magnetic Joy-Cons, the improved mic, the snappier UI, GameChat, accessibility – all these quiet upgrades just make using it smoother and more enjoyable day to day. Not everything lands, however. I think the UI looks a bit stale, and Mario Kart World didn’t quite click for me, but this feels like the most polished Nintendo Switch console, and there’s still lots of potential.
By TheIndependent
on June 09, 2025
Hands on: All of that, and yet I’m two days in and I’m still very excited. A new Nintendo console, with a bunch of games I already love, and a bunch of little things that may change the way I play and connect with old friends. And the promise, of course, of new things to come.
By EuroGamer
on June 09, 2025
Hands on: Now that I’ve had a Nintendo Switch 2 in my hands for a few days, I can say pretty confidently that this feels a lot like a Switch. You know, only more. The differences between console generations have become increasingly blurry over the last few years, and Nintendo’s latest device is the blurriest yet. It really is just a bigger, more powerful Switch. It’s not a radical update to Nintendo’s portable console — but it is a pleasant one.
By The Verge
on June 09, 2025
Hands on: The Switch 2 needs to lean hard into that, I think. But it’s also got a lot of promise. I just have to see how much it feels like a Nintendo console versus like a Steam Deck, and what taking it on the road next week will feel like.
By cnet
on June 06, 2025
Hands on: I suspect this could be more of an issue on Nintendo’s end, with millions of people picking up a Switch 2 at once, the company’s servers must be getting slammed pretty hard. Or at least, I’m hoping this is the case, because so far, download speeds have felt near dial-up levels of slowness.
By Tom’s Guide
on June 06, 2025
Hands on: We’re already really enjoying our time with the Switch 2 outside of a few annoying shortcomings and design choices that haven’t yet won us over. Calling it just a bigger, stronger Switch might sound boring, but in practice, it totally rocks.
By Kotaku
on June 06, 2025
For now, suffice it to say that Switch 2 upgrades make a lot of the less performant Switch games much more bearable. This can be especially true for late-era Switch software that pushed the old hardware to its limits; after seeing Tears of the Kingdom running at a silky smooth 60 fps on the Switch 2, it will be hard to go back to playing the original version ever again.
By Ars Technica
on June 06, 2025
Hands on: After all of that, I’m extremely familiar with Nintendo’s original hybrid system, and while I truly love that console, I’m also very aware of its shortcomings, from performance woes to joystick drift. Because the Switch 2 feels like more of an iterative successor that doesn’t set out to flip the table on what Nintendo was already doing, I am going to be taking an eye toward those longstanding issues and how well they have been addressed (although, for something like drift, we likely won’t have a clear answer for many months to come).
By IGN
on June 05, 2025
Hands on: Eight years after the launch of the first-generation Nintendo Switch, the concept remains almost unchanged; the Switch 2 has mainly become larger and more powerful. Nintendo has nevertheless tweaked many aspects of the hardware.
By NotebookCheck
on June 05, 2025
