Here's Our First Look at an Actual Nintendo Switch 2 Cartridge

Nintendo has shown disconnected our archetypal due look astatine a Nintendo Switch 2 crippled cartridge, up of the console's motorboat adjacent month.

The latest video from the company's Nintendo Today app shows disconnected a look astatine the authoritative Switch 2 transportation case, which has slots for you to safely tuck successful up to six Nintendo Switch 1 and Switch 2 cartridges.

As we knew already, Switch 2 cartridges are the aforesaid size and signifier arsenic Switch 1 cartridges — meaning that the Switch 2 itself lone needs 1 cartridge slot to play games from some Switch console generations. But there's 1 cardinal difference: the cartridge's color.

Switch 2 cartridges are reddish — and this appears to beryllium a cosmopolitan decision, not conscionable for the Mario Kart World cartridge seen successful Nintendo's video. (If you don't person the Nintendo Today app, you tin spot the video via OatmealDome connected X / Twitter below.)

The apical of the cartridge's printed plan sticker besides shows a Switch 2 logo, alternatively than the Nintendo Switch plan connected archetypal cartridges.

Other than that, Switch 2 cartridges are identical, adjacent down to the foul-tasting coating that Nintendo applies to discourage you from putting the cartridges successful your mouth.

"We don't privation anybody to beryllium astatine hazard of immoderate unwanted consumption," Switch 2 manager Takuhiro Dohta antecedently told GameSpot. "We person so made it truthful that if it enters your mouth, you'll spit it out."

Switch 2 is acceptable to motorboat connected June 5, 2025 — successful conscionable 3 weeks' time. Earlier today, a study revealed that Nintendo's cardinal electronics spouse Samsung was already reasoning astir a Switch 2 hardware refresh with an OLED surface upgrade.

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