The leaks on the Nintendo Switch 2 are more and more frightening, creating a grotesque situation. The silence of the Japanese firm on the subject of its future game console seems strange, but its media interest undoubtedly lies elsewhere.
What can encourage Nintendo to say nothing about the Switch 2, when the leaks are ever more numerous and, above all, more and more difficult to deny? The latest, spotted by Numerama at CES 2025, actually shows manipulable models. First hypothesis: Nintendo locks its employees in a bunker which does not have access to the Internet and no one is therefore aware of these leaks. Second possibility, more plausible: Nintendo doesn't care about all this media noise, because the interest of the Switch 2 lies elsewhere.
If we trust all these rumors which, put end to end, end up turning into informationsespecially when they intersect, the Switch 2 doesn't have much to get excited about on a hardware level. It is only an evolution of the first Switch, without the particularity on which it could rely to play on the novelty (the hybridity of the machine, half-portable, half-fixed, with detachable controllers). Nintendo must know: there is no magic behind the Switch 2 as a machine, as is the case between an iPhone 15 and an iPhone 16 (Apple says nothing about routine leaks either). These leaks are unpleasant, of course, because they pull the rug out from under the Japanese firm. But it doesn't spoil the best and most beautiful surprises.
We know both everything and nothing about the Switch 2
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However, be careful: this is not to minimize the numerous improvements of the Switch 2. A larger screen? This is a real argument for comfort (perhaps a little less for a younger audience and/or with small hands). Magnetic Joy-Cons? The console will have more finished finishes and small, more solid controllers. More power? This is an expected development, even if we should not expect graphics comparable to the PS5. The mysterious optical sensor? It will undoubtedly be used to transform the Joy-Con into a mouse, but it is not a revolution (the Lenovo Legion Go already does this). There remains this new C button whose use we still don't know.
In fact, we are not waiting for the Switch 2 on its hardwarewhile we only swear by the number of Tflops on the PS5 Pro – to be sure that we will finally play in 60 frames per second. Knowing that Nintendo's future console is a simple, but necessary, evolution of the previous one sheds more light on the company's more cautious strategy. It experienced failures (less than 14 million sales for the Wii U), and a total break with the Switch – a real commercial success – would have represented a certain risk. Making a whole new gamble doesn't seem like what Nintendo wants to accomplish right now, in this period where the costs of electronic products are soaring.
@numerama The Nintendo Switch 2 is revealed in preview at CES in Las Vegas: here is its design! #CES2025 #Switch2 #NintendoSwitch2 #Nintendo
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We are therefore waiting for the Switch 2 on what has made Nintendo's DNA since its beginnings: games, the longevity and pedigree of its licenses, as well as its ability to systematically find that little “trick” capable of making the difference – the most of the time, in gameplay, exploring other approaches. We thought we had reached the summits with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wildan incredible appropriation of the open world, a genre that is on the rise. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom still manages to reinvent the experience to cause this effect wowwithout relying too much on a new hardware process, without additional power, just with video game ideas that the others don't have.
If Nintendo were teasing, it could have fun with all these indiscretions that parasitize its communication campaign. “ You already know everything about the features of the Switch 2, but you haven't seen anything yet », a sentence linked to a trailer showing a new game Mario promising, a wild race of Mario Kart with a shell that will create a buzz, a Pokémon who wakes up like the animals in The Lion King…
Leaks won't entirely ruin the party, as long as Nintendo keeps the biggest strength of its future console a secret: its catalog of exclusive games. Despite everything, now we must stop eternally burying our heads in the sand, because the public's patience has its limits, as does its propensity to be lost in the face of confusion.
