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Yesterday we discovered Nintendo Switch 2 at the same time as the rest of the world: in the Direct of an hour with which Nintendo revealed the details of his new hybrid console. But immediately afterwards, a group of journalists from all over Europe met in Paris to try the machine.
We could taste a good amount of gamesand also have the console in our hands. And then we tell you our first impressions of Nintendo Switch 2.
Design and Screen, News Welcome
The first game we had the opportunity to try was the ‘Mario Kart World‘, and after a game with the new Pro command (virtually identical to Switch, but with a C button that activates the chat), we had the opportunity to weigh the console itself.
Although the changes are very scarce, the redesign shows: the thickness is the same, but the largest size (without having the weight, sometimes uncomfortable, of a portable type PC Steam Deck) makes it more comfortable. Larger sticks They will have their defenders and detractors: we were easier to handle.
On the other hand, we have the panel. The improvement on the screen accompanies the renewed power of the console. It is easier to perceive improvements in games such as ‘Mario Kart World’ (essentially A ‘Mario Kart 8’ Vitaminate in the visual) or the updated versions of the ‘Zelda’, where the 1080p at 120 fps shone especially, especially because we had to compare: the first switch.
The new screen is up to the renewed guts of the console, and is the best example of the new console status: We are no longer facing a toybut before a machine that moves’Star Wars Outlaws‘ either ‘Cyberpunk 2077‘.
Joy-Con 2 ‘Mouse’ and Chamber: Good idea and curiosity in equal parts
One of the peculiarities of the Joy-Con 2 is that they can be used as if it were a PC mouse. In a few months we will talk about how often we have come to use this function, although on paper they are a good idea for games that require precision in the pointed one, such as the new ‘Metroid Prime 4’.
But we are not, obviously, before a mouse: its size, its ergonomics and the place that occupy the trigger and the side buttons make a large hand over hurting with the use. It is the only time when the console recovers that feeling of the first switch that we were facing a toy.
Its use, in any case, is direct (you just have to disconnect the joy-with the screen and support them on a smooth surface) and have multiple applications that developers will discover. It will give us more than a surprise (in fact, it is the most colorful novelty of the console at the hardware level), yes, provided that it does not require very prolonged sessions of the game.
Another song is the camera. We had no chance to try the new chat of the console to share several game screens, but we could incorporate the camera into a renewed session ‘Mario Party Jamboree’.
The result does not allow us to judge the device in all its complexity, as is obvious, but left us with the feeling that We are facing a little curiosityas its own form demonstrates, with support to place next to the console and visualize all the people in the room.
The console sauce: the games
Few more novelties we could notice with regard to hardware itself, which leaves us with the usual observation with respect to Nintendo, not necessarily negative: What matters is the catalog. Once again, it will be the existence of games such as ‘Metroid Prime 4’, ‘Donkey Kong Baniza’ or ‘Mario Kart World’ who push the console.
It is significant that this time the device has some entrails that put it at the height of some current desktop consoles (it should be compared, perhaps, with a Xbox Series s), But let’s not fool ourselves: that is not the strategy of Nintendo, which as it was clear in yesterday’s Direct, bets on the games and then already that, to the technique.
The price of Nintendo Switch 2: determinant
It would be thought that this is not the place to thorough Finally move triple tothat can afford to be challenged at the industry level such as receiving exclusively the new from Fromsoftware, but that is still a higher version of a console that already existed and that, in broad strokes, does the same.
If we defended at the time that Switch was worth it for its catalog, logic works in reverse: is it worth only for a minimum technical improvement?
Of course the answer lies in each one’s pocket, but 469.99 euros (without ‘Mario Kart World’) is a little less than 50% more than the cost of exit the First switch. Is Switch 2, however tendentious the comparison, 50% more powerful than its precedent?
Of course not, but again, what matters here is the catalog: what we saw yesterday by ‘Metroid Prime 4’, ‘Donkey Kong Baniza’ and ‘Mario Kart World’, plus the silent guarantee that we will see exclusive and quality games comparable to new ‘Zelda’ or ‘Mario 2D’, convinced us. Although we kept asking ourselves if this time Nintendo has opted too strong for his own triumph.
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