Nintendo shared the primary particulars in regards to the Nintendo Change 2 in a video printed Thursday. Nintendo doesn’t give a particular launch date for the console moreover “2025.”
The console appears to be like lots like the unique, however it’s greater. Within the video, the Pleasure-Con controllers are black with coloured accents, they usually connect to the facet of the console as a substitute of sliding on and off. The Pleasure-Cons seem to snap on fairly simply — leaks have instructed they might be hooked up by way of magnets.
There’s a brand new button beneath the house button on the appropriate Pleasure-Con, which had proven up in leaks. The video additionally seems to point out the Pleasure-Cons getting used equally to a mouse. And the SL and SR buttons on the Pleasure-Cons are greater than they’re on the unique Change’s Pleasure-Cons.
On high of the Change 2, there’s a brand new USB-C port subsequent to the three.5mm headphone jack. The kickstand has a brand new design — it’s formed extra like a U. The dock for the Change 2 has a extra rounded design. And, like with the unique Change, there may also be a separate controller grip you can snap the Pleasure-Cons into.
The one recreation proven is what seems to be a brand new Mario Kart title. However the console might be backward-compatible with each bodily and digital Nintendo Change video games — although the video cautions that “sure Nintendo Change video games might not be supported on or absolutely suitable with Nintendo Change 2.”
Nintendo is promising to share extra particulars in a Nintendo Change 2-focused Direct on April 2nd, 2025. The particular time might be shared “at a later date.”
The primary Change was additionally a large gross sales hit. The corporate says that, to this point, it’s offered 146.04 million items, making the console its second-highest-selling online game system behind the unique Nintendo DS, which offered 154.02 million items. The Change’s gross sales figures additionally imply that it has surpassed the Nintendo Wii (101.63 million items), the Sport Boy (118.69 million items), and the Nintendo 3DS (75.94 million items).
Whereas we’ve been ready years for a real Change successor, the console had mid-cycle {hardware} refreshes alongside the way in which. The Nintendo Change Lite was a good way to play Change video games on a smaller system, and the Nintendo Change OLED added a phenomenal show and a handful of different good upgrades.
Beginning in December, supposed details about Nintendo’s subsequent console started to trickle out from accent producers. Dbrand, for instance, gave us what it believed to be precise dimensions of the {hardware} and mentioned that its “understanding” was that the Pleasure-Con controllers could be magnetically hooked up. And at CES 2025, Genki confirmed off a 3D-printed mockup of what it believed the Change’s successor would appear to be.
