Nintendo’s long-awaited Switch 2 handheld gaming console officially launches worldwide today. The Japanese gaming giant returns with a follow-up to its game-changing Nintendo Switch from 2017 – a console widely credited with breathing life back into handheld gaming – having spent the past eight years quietly working on a successor designed to live up to the legacy of the original.
The new Nintendo Switch 2 arrives with a range of hardware and performance upgrades, as well as a subtle redesign that improves on ergonomics and just about everything else compared to the Switch 1. It’s powered by the massively more capable, custom-built T239 chipset from Nvidia – whose CEO, Jensen Huang, recently described as “the most advanced graphics ever in a mobile device” – with 12GB of fast LPDDR