Switch 2 is going to be the weirdest Nintendo console ever – Reader’s Feature
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A reader predicts that 2025 is going to be turning point for the games industry and that the Nintendo Switch 2 will be at the centre of it all. It was inevitable that pics of the Switch 2 would leak out before the official annoucement, given someone always manages to take a photo they shouldn’t on the production line. That’s what we got at first, but I never expected to see so many accessory makers spoiling the secrets in such a blatant way. I still don’t understand why either? They gain nothing from it and now Nintendo hates their guts. Seems completely self-defeating.
![[Nintendo Switch 2 mock up image]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SEI_233641725-6dce.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
That’s their problem though. What it means is that we already know exactly the Switch 2 looks like: the original Switch. That’s interesting but in terms of anything important we still know nothing. There’re no believable rumours about any of the games and we don’t know what any of the new buttons do or if it has any unexpected features – which Nintendo has implied it does.
![[Nintendo Switch 2 white Joy-Con controllers in wheel accessories]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SEI_233744094-a017.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=480)
We don’t know what the new buttons at the back do or what the ‘C’ button does. It must be important because it kind of spoils the look of the console and the right Joy-Con, so I think the guess about some kind of TV ‘casting’ feature are probably true, so you can use it like the Wii U GamePad. But that’s only a guess, and it’s Nintendo, so who really knows.
I’m not going to speculate anymore because the reason I call the Switch 2 ‘weird’ is nothing to do with what it does, but the position it will have in the games industry. Xbox and PlayStation are in a bad way at the moment. Xbox console sales are in the toilet and PlayStation 5 is falling quicker than expected, with still not much announced for the future and no word on whether they’ve given up live service games or not.
