The Nintendo Switch 2 reveal was bad but the console will be massive – Reader’s Feature
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A reader is surprised at just how positive the response has been to the Nintendo Switch 2 reveal and asks what that means for the console’s success. So that was all a bit of a letdown, eh? I know it’s the leakers’ fault for spoiling everything ahead of time but not even the biggest Nintendo fan could claim the Nintendo Switch 2 reveal was anything other than anticlimactic… to put things politely.
![[Nintendo Switch 2 dock with Mario Kart 9 playing on TV]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_236179511-481a.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
Don’t get me wrong, nothing looked bad, not even Mario Kart 9, but the whole thing seemed designed to show the absolute bare minimum to count as a reveal. Whether that’s because it was a rushed response to all the leaks or not I couldn’t say but it made one thing very clear: Nintendo don’t want to talk about it right now, so quit asking them about it.
However, there’s something I didn’t realise until reading GC’s overview of the teaser trailer and that’s just how popular it’s been. Gamers basically hate everything and Nintendo has no shortage of loud-mouthed enemies online, so you’d expect the reveal video to be downvoted to hell and back. But it hasn’t been. Out of 15 million views it’s had 950,000 upvotes and just 25,000 downvotes.
That is really surprising to me. Read the comments on YouTube and instead of the viper’s nest of angry complaints you’d expect it’s instead filled with polite approval and lots of joking about Nintendo being Nintendo. Or as the top-voted comment says: ‘That was the most ‘get off my back’ energy I’ve ever seen in a teaser.’.
