Nintendo recently formally announced its successor to the Nintendo Switch. Are you thinking of getting one?

I might get one eventually - we shall see. I never had an original Switch, believe it or not, so I like that it's going to be backwards compatible with the vast majority of original Switch games.

i kinda need to get one cus my original Switch's battery is expanding and im having difficulty finding spare parts here. the same thing happened to my 3ds as well, thanks nintendo

i like what im seeing so far with switch 2 tho. nothing too exciting, but also nothing to really complain about. just a better version of an already (mostly) good console

wish the games weren't so expensive tho!

I'm certain I'll get one, although I don't know when. I'm pleasantly surprised to see Street Fighter 6 as a launch game. Mostly interested in trying the GameCube Switch online games.

Really impressive showing with the direct for it, I went from "I have no idea how they'll sell me on this" to it being one of the rare Nintendo consoles I want to grab day one. Mario Kart at launch is genius and the new Donkey Kong looks incredible. Bringing back Kirby Air Ride for another go after so long is fascinating too, had a lot of fun with the original back in the day.

GameCube games at launch is interesting too because they still have digital triggers and a ton of GameCube games relied on the analog ones- I'm sure you can plug in a GameCube controller and it'll support them (as it did with the Mario 3d collection) but here's an opportunity to have the base console controllers have that, oh well.

Hardware wise I feel like they're addressing all the complaints I've heard over the years about the switch. I can't say I ever cared about it not having voice chat and probably won't use their new thing but it looks like they went all out to try and have a fully fleshed out experience that looks way more impressive than what I've seen on other consoles- but I don't use that stuff so who knows.

I saw a few statements from Nintendo saying they're still planning to support the original switch as well to provide experiences across different price points, I think that's great. I think one thing that's very different about video games these days vs say 15-20 years ago is there's such a wide variety of price points for games now, I hope Nintendo can continue to target games at different price points.

Thought about getting rid of my Switch but I've seen that they have compatibility issues with certain Switch games on Switch 2, maybe they'll sort them all out eventually, but it definitely seems like a good idea to hang onto the old one if you have it if don't want to take any risks there.