Nintendo Switch 2: 23 New Details - Release Date, Price, GameChat and More!

There was a ton of caller info to instrumentality successful from the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct. Luckily, we’ve picked retired the astir important details astir the console, including erstwhile you tin play it and the exertion down it, successful this useful article. So, let’s get consecutive to it. Here are 23 caller details astir the Switch 2 console and its caller GameChat feature.

The Console

1. Let’s commencement with the large one. We yet present cognize that the Nintendo Switch 2 volition get connected June 5th, 2025.

2. It volition beryllium disposable to pre-order connected April 8th successful the UK and Europe, but 1 time aboriginal connected the 9th successful the US.

3. The Switch 2 is simply a larger mentation of the archetypal hybrid console, with the surface measuring 7.9 inches – a sizeable summation compared to the Switch’s 6.2 inches.

4. The surface itself is simply a 1080p LCD monitor, with treble the magnitude of pixels of the archetypal screen. It besides supports HDR (High Definition Range) and 120fps for an adjacent smoother gameplay experience.

5. 4K solution volition beryllium disposable connected Switch 2 erstwhile docked and a suitable TV is connected via HDMI. The caller dock besides has a built-in instrumentality this clip around.

6. The Switch 2 comes with 256GB of interior storage, a mammoth 8 times the magnitude of abstraction the archetypal came with.

7. If you simply person excessively galore games and request adjacent much room, MicroSD Express cards are the lone benignant that tin beryllium inserted for other storage. Frustratingly, archetypal Switch microSDs won’t work.

8. The Switch 2 volition besides beryllium utilizing a caller benignant of crippled card. They’re reddish arsenic opposed to their predecessor’s grey, and person a faster speechmaking speed.

9. The audio capabilities of the Switch 2 look importantly improved, with amended prime speakers allowing for accrued range, arsenic good arsenic 3D audio disposable erstwhile utilizing headphones. Great, present we’ll beryllium capable to perceive that bluish ammunition coming for america straight from behind.

10. There’s besides a built-in microphone connected the apical of the console that comes into its ain erstwhile utilizing the Switch 2’s brand-new GameChat diagnostic (more connected that later).

11. It besides possesses 2 USB C ports. One connected the bottom, conscionable similar the archetypal Switch, and 1 connected apical to marque charging easier erstwhile successful tabletop mode, oregon if you privation to instrumentality vantage of the caller Nintendo Switch Camera 2 accessory.

12. The Nintendo Switch 2 Camera volition beryllium disposable connected the aforesaid time arsenic the console. It volition outgo $49.99/£49.99 and tin beryllium utilized to enactment your look into games, specified arsenic Mario Party Jamboree, oregon arsenic an overlay erstwhile playing with friends.

13. The Switch 2 joy-con connects magnetically to the console via the bigger, metallic SL and SR buttons, and besides has larger analog sticks.

14. Each joy-con tin besides beryllium utilized arsenic a rodent too. Some examples of games that person were shown to usage this functionality are Metroid Prime 4: Beyond and Civilization 7.

15. A caller Pro Controller volition besides beryllium disposable for the Switch 2. It comes with programmable GL and GR buttons connected the grips and volition beryllium disposable for $79.99/£74.99.

16. Other authoritative accessories revealed astatine this clip see Mario Kart steering wheels, a Switch 2 transportation case, and an “all successful one” transportation lawsuit that tin store and transportation each instrumentality needed to play successful TV mode. This includes the Nintendo Switch 2 system, Nintendo Switch 2 dock, Joy-Con 2 controllers, assorted cables, and up to six crippled cards.

17. Amiibo besides marque their instrumentality and are confirmed to beryllium compatible with the Switch 2. Three caller Street Fighter Amiibo – Luke, Jamie, and Kimberly – are owed astatine the console’s launch.

18. The modular Nintendo Switch 2 console costs $449.99/£395.99 and comes with the pursuing successful its box: A Nintendo Switch 2 console, Joy-Con 2 controllers (L+R), Joy-Con 2 Grip, Joy-Con 2 Straps, Nintendo Switch 2 Dock, Ultra High-Speed HDMI Cable, Nintendo Switch 2 AC Adapter, and a USB-C Charging Cable.

19. A Mario Kart World Bundle volition besides beryllium disposable astatine launch. It comes with each of the above, positive a transcript of the game. This volition outgo $499.99/£429.99.

GameChat

20. And finally, the large enigma of the Switch 2’s C fastener was yet solved. GameChat is simply a caller enactment dependable transmission strategy for the Nintendo console that volition let players to speech to friends, and each begins with a property of that button.

21. The microphone connected the apical of the console promises to prime up players’ voices implicit the apical of inheritance noise, whether beryllium engaged postulation oregon a vacuum cleaner connected the different broadside of the room.

22. It volition besides let players to stock their screens with others, overmuch similar PlayStation’s stock surface tech, truthful that you tin spot what your friends are up to oregon adjacent assistance them with a peculiar puzzle.

23. GameChat, of course, comes with a price, though. And that admittance interest is simply a Nintendo Online membership. That volition lone beryllium the lawsuit aft March 31st, 2026, however, arsenic earlier past it volition beryllium disposable to each Switch 2 owners for free.

And that’s each the quickfire accusation we picked retired from Nintendo’s extended Switch 2 Direct. Are you readying connected picking up a Switch 2 astatine launch? Let america cognize successful the comments. And for everything other Switch 2, instrumentality with IGN.

Simon Cardy is simply a Senior Editor astatine IGN who tin chiefly beryllium recovered skulking astir unfastened satellite games, indulging successful Korean cinema, oregon despairing astatine the authorities of Tottenham Hotspur and the New York Jets. Follow him connected Bluesky astatine @cardy.bsky.social.