Nintendo Switch 2: Eight Years Waiting for this?

It took Nintendo eight years to see its highly anticipated new console finally come out. And if you had been dreaming of a game-changer, well. you might be disappointed.

Let's dissect this. For $500, you're getting a portable console with a 1080p screen. That's right—1080p in 2025. And the marquee launch title? A tastefully upgraded version of Mario Kart. Not some next-generation sequel, but a facelift.

And the "introductory" title packaged with the console? You have to pay to finish it. That's right—your first experience on a brand-new Nintendo console has a paywall.

But perhaps the most controversial morsel: Nintendo has made it little unclear that if you jailbreak or modify the console in any way, they retain the right to brick it. You're paying for the hardware itself, but technically, you're not really in complete control of it—you're just licensing it on their terms. It's a combative stance, and one which is already enraging a lot of people.

Meanwhile, competition is boiling. ASUS ROG and Xbox have both teased with future handheld devices, and they can perhaps give Nintendo a run for its money.

As for me, I simply disassembled the MSI Claw to get some hands-on experience with its inner workings. I will do the same with Nintendo's new arrival when it arrives—presumably soon, within a week or two. And no, we did not get a review sample, despite our 100,000-subscriber channel. Let's see if Nintendo still considers us a friend after whatever is on the way.

Stay tuned. Things are going to get interesting.