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What to expect from Nintendo’s Switch 2

The next generation Nintendo console is set to shake up gaming this year

Lennart Nacke
5 min readJan 17, 2025
The Nintendo Switch 2 is looking magnetic. (Image: Nintendo)

The Nintendo Switch 2 is the highly anticipated next-generation console from Nintendo, and it’s set to shake up the gaming world in 2025. With its powerful hardware, innovative software features, and expanded gaming experience, the Switch 2 is poised to take gaming to new heights.

Hardware Innovations

The Switch 2 will boast a more powerful processor, a larger screen, and a new Joy-Con controller design. Sounds like the Switch 2 is levelling up like Goku after a training montage, packing a processor that makes its predecessor look like a Game & Watch. The screen is getting supersized (though still not quite in the “that’s what she said” territory), while the Joy-Cons are getting a solid glow-up that would make even the Queer Eye guys proud. And if you thought ray tracing and DLSS were just fancy tech buzzwords — well, they are, but they’re also going to make your games look smoother than Keanu Reeves in The Matrix. Neo would…

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Lennart Nacke
Lennart Nacke

Written by Lennart Nacke

I share effective strategies for better UX research, game design, and writing. University Research Chair & Tenured Full HCI Professor.

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