Nintendo Switch 2 is FINALLY "confirmed"

So, here are my initial thoughts. When I woke up this morning, and I saw this trailer on social-media, at first I thought it was just a fan-made trailer. Then I went over to Nintendo.com and saw that it was a legit trailer. So, I watched it there. THE NAME - Nintendo has decided to make the Switch a "brand" at least for the short-term if not long-term by doing something that they have never done before and that is "numbering" a console in succession. It's probably the best course of action, and is one of many signs of a change in strategy by the new management-structure in Nintendo of Japan. While the historical rule of Nintendo of always naming a console after what the "hook" of the console is still loosely applies, it's not really applicable here. This is more in-line with successful consumer products such as the iPhone, or in-line with what Sony has done with the PlayStation brand. It also suggests that Nintendo plans to stick with the hybrid-design from now on, or at least until the form factor is no longer viable in the marketplace, which is a sound business strategy in my opinion. THE LOOK - Well, let's just keep it a buck. We've SEEN this already. Literally EVERY SINGLE THING we saw in this trailer has been leaked already. I'll touch more on that in a bit. It looks nice. Very smooth and sleek. The orange and blue accents underneath the thumb sticks really pop out and give a nice charm to the design. However, like I said, we've already seen this. THE GAME?? - Well, the leaked rumor that this trailer would not focus on software was true because it did not. They showed Mario Kart..........

I hope for THEIR sake that this was just a placeholder video and not indicative of what Mario Kart 9 will look like on the Switch 2 because this didn't not look better than the Wii U Mario Kart 8 in any way, shape, or form. That BETTER not be a representation of what it is........... OVERALL PRESENTATION - Pretty good. Still had the Nintendo charm without the cheese and the corn while giving a more modern-feel to it making the Switch 2 feel less like a toy, and more like a major consumer electronic-device. This video was purposefully left to be ambiguous so that nothing they want to reveal later could be easily extrapolated from it. Giving a firm date on when the full blow-out of the Nintendo Switch 2 will be released which is April 2nd, 2025, was something that was long overdue and Nintendo should have done in the first place. There was NO REASON to make us wait this long. NO REASON.....but, at least they finally did it. This video will at the very least put to rest the rumors of what the console looks like, and maybe quiet down the fan base for awhile which had gotten pretty obnoxious and overbearing the past few months. So, here are my final thoughts. Either Nintendo is embarking on an incredibly unorthodox strategy of allowing many facets of the Switch 2 to leak out into the media as a way of gauging interest and free advertising as was suggested by LeveledHead from LeveledHeadGamer on YouTube... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8t4A_vUXWU ....OR...this is the most amateurish, irresponsible, unprofessional, and totally dilapidated roll out of a video game console in the genre's history. I mean, how can anyone POSSIBLY be this stupid? We saw the WHOLE FREAKING THING already! MONTHS AGO! Not only that, supposedly Nintendo makes a statement that the prototypes shown by accessory manufacturer Genki, were NOT based on the final design, which clearly is a false statement or just semantics because maybe they got only little thing incorrect somewhere, and Nintendo just used that to say it was not based on the final design, which if true, is extremely petty and childish. If you messed up, or you were too lazy and stuff leaked out, own up to that. Don't make excuses. If you did leak this stuff out on purpose, but more leaked out than what you WANTED to leak out, or BEFORE you wanted it to leak out, just leave it alone. Accept the consequences for your actions. It didn't hurt anything. Obviously, this trailer doesn't do much for anyone that has been following this story other than to give everyone a little breather and take the edge off. This was more of a "confirmation" than a "reveal." This is just Nintendo in a video format saying to us, "Yes, everything that you have seen in the leaks thus far in terms of design is correct." That's all they really did. I know some of the more overzealous people out there will try to look deeper into certain aspects of the trailer to create their own narrative to fuel their content on their chosen platforms up until April, but there really isn't much, nor is it necessary. You have a firm date on when you will next hear more about the Switch 2. Just cool out and relax until then. However, still keeping it a buck..........Nintendo could have gave us this trailer in September 2024. Just sayin'........