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GRTV News - Nintendo Switch 2 will launch in June
We gather some early thoughts on the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct.
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"Hi there, welcome back to GLTV News, I'm Alex as usual going through the afternoons, latest and greatest when it comes to gaming, technology, entertainment, whatever you like and whatever you love, we've always got it here for you at GLTV News and in the wider Gamereactor network as a whole."
"So, if you like what you see and you want to see more, be sure to check out Gamereactor wherever you get it from for more gaming reviews, gaming previews, movie reviews, series reviews, world news, exclusives, interviews, sports news and of course so much more.
So, without further ado today, there's only one thing that we're going to discuss."
"This news video is coming a little later than I usually do my afternoon news, but considering we have the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct, there's nothing really I could talk about that would have been nearly equivalent in terms of priority and importance.
So, we've got a lot of information here, I've just picked this one about the launch date which is the 5th of June 2025 and we haven't had an official confirmation on the price yet, but there is sort of speculation about what that could be, but we got a lot of information about the Switch 2's hardware at 120fps, an LCD screen still, the fact that it's going to be launching with a couple of bundles, one with Mario Kart World which we saw in full, which is the 9th Mario Kart game, which will be giving us a lot of different aspects and stuff that I could just talk about for minutes and minutes and minutes, but I'm going to try and keep this limited because I know we like to keep these things short and give you just as much information as I can."
"As I said, the 5th of June 2025 is when the Switch 2 will be released alongside Mario Kart World and a few other launch titles as well, some third party like Cyberpunk 2077, Hitman World of Assassination and more.
Some other stuff as well that we got to learn about the hardware, the C stands for Game Chat which is a new feature which looks very much like Discord but allows you to chat with your friends, find them in game, join the chat as you find each other within a game, speak to each other, use the new camera which is being sold as an additional feature for the Switch 2 which allows you to broadcast yourself and is useful in a handful of other activities and games like Mario Party Jamboree which is getting a new version for the Nintendo Switch 2."
"We also got to see a lot of games that are getting upgraded to the Nintendo Switch 2 so some of these come with gameplay upgrades like Super Mario Party Jamboree or Kirby the Forgotten Land, some of them come with just visual upgrades and performance upgrades mainly, stuff like Legend of Zelda, Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild."
"And then there's Switch 1 and Switch 2 versions for games that have not yet released this year such as Pokemon Legend ZA and Metroid Prime 4 Beyond.
Now the power of the Nintendo Switch 2 is significantly better than that of a Switch 1 but it still seems that we're going to be getting nothing like a PS5 or an Xbox Series X or S level of power level that we expected really considering this is a handheld console but it can still run some impressive games, stuff like Elden Ring, stuff like Cyberpunk 2077 as I mentioned before are all coming to this console, Borderlands 4 is coming to this console at launch, Civilization 7 is getting upgraded for the Switch 2 at launch."
"All of these games, some of them that are quite or look quite graphically impressive are going to be seen on the Nintendo Switch 2 so it's sort of picking itself up to modern times when it comes to releases and things like that.
Not everything is going to be available on there but we are seeing some exciting exclusives as well, possibly nothing more exciting than the Duskbloods which everyone thought was going to be Bloodborne 2, myself included, when the announcement was made but it's an exclusive FromSoftware title that's coming to Switch 2 in 2026."
"Now of course we've got Elden Ring Night Reign coming to all platforms but there's going to be some controversy I think about this being a Switch 2 exclusive game and there's also going to be some excitement because it's a new FromSoftware game that does seem to heavily resemble Bloodborne and Lies of Pea and those games that have taken that sort of gothic style I guess or Belepok if we're talking Lies of Pea but in any case we'll have to find more about it, it is being directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki and so we'll have to see more on that but I don't want to talk too much on the Duskbloods as as I say the Nintendo Switch 2 as a whole is important here, there are a lot of thoughts going around on the internet right now and there will be a lot of thoughts as we continue the days and weeks and months that lead up to the launch of this console but it is only two months away really until this console will be on our hands and yet there's a new Kirby by the way from Sakurai and there's also a new Donkey Kong game which looks very open world and allows you to destroy a lot of the environments. Those games combined with Mario Kart are the only first party Nintendo exclusives that have been launching just for the Nintendo Switch 2 this year I believe they're all coming out, I'll have to double check that but it's been a long show as you can see as I've also been diving away at some news stories myself but we'll have to see all that because at the minute all we know is that it's launching on the 5th of June, we'll probably know the price pretty soon because pre-orders you'd imagine would start soon as well but hey what did you think of the Nintendo Switch 2 reveal?
Are you excited about the console? Do you think there could have been more? Are you going to wait for your purchase to make this console yours or are you going to just dive right in? Let me know all that and more and I'll see you tomorrow for some more GRTB news, goodbye."
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