
After months (more like years) of speculation, Nintendo has finally revealed its new hardware: Switch 2.
Today's brief teaser trailer was nothing more than a 'first look' of what's on offer, but there was enough there to get us suitably excited. We caught our first official glimpse of the console itself, with close-up peeks at the new Joy-Con, dock, stand and... Mario Kart?
However, after so much excitement, there's every chance that you found the whole thing to feel a little 'blink and you'll miss it'. That's where we come in. Below, we have assembled a gallery of official Switch 2 snaps, showcasing the upcoming console from every angle we've seen it.
Naturally, we expect to get an even more detailed rundown of Switch 2 in the coming months, but for now, at least, here's a closer look at everything we saw in today's trailer, starting with the console itself...

Next up, let's dive into the Joy-Con. These bigger models come in matte black with blue and orange (or maybe more of a 'salmon') highlights. Note the little 'mouse' sensor, bigger SL/SR buttons and the small cylinders which appear to push to controllers away from the screen when the new rear button is pressed.
Gone is the rail system. These Joy-Con appear to attach via a connector of their own:
What's more, there appears to be a new oval Joy-Con strap (though we only get a very blurry look at it) which transforms the controllers into... a mouse? It looks likely:

Here's a closer look at the stand in all its flexible glory:

Switch 2 will boast a bonus USB-C port alongside the classic buttons on top:
Finally, here's what our new handheld looks like all docked up and ready to play on the big screen:
It all looks rather sweet, no? Honestly, we're just excited that an official reveal is actually here! Let us know your favourite detail so far in the comments below.
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Where is this "C" button?
That salmon colour is so ugly...
@Axecon The button is there, but it doesn't have a "C" on it like the leaked renders suggest
I actually really like how modern it looks.
But, like.. I need software lol
This thing is only going to become interesting to me when they start announcing Zelda, (2D) Metroid and whatever Monolith are cooking.
Maybe a new, exclusive MonHan thing, too.
@Axecon
Underneath the home button on the right joycon.
Not a fan of the new joy con colours so bland..
She's a handsome devil alright. Looks a really good size, tiny bezel, and beautifully subtle use of colour on the joycon. I'm not sold on the logo but otherwise I can't wait to get my hands on it.
The Mario Bros bought Radiator Springs?
@Baircade Kinda strange right. Should have gone with the normal red.
Console looks great and I don't doubt the games will be anything but great as well, what I want to see now though is the home UI.
I followed the leaks just because and the fact a huge cunk of them are legit kinda took the surprise away
Oh well sorry nothing new.
Guess we have to go all the way to 2nd of April to find out more.
About as unexciting as the PS5 Pro reveal
It doesn't look like it has analogue triggers.
This is the most tech-bro Apple-like trailer I have ever seen from a gaming company. I think it’s gonna be a good gaming device but I’m not really sure who this is for. As far as I can tell, this is for Nintendo executives who want their company to seem important and are upset that their hardware is being spoiled by leaks during manufacturing.
I just want it to be fun. Can we have the 3ds features back? I loved opening the 🎁
I hoped for analogue triggers.
It's not their fault that the shape and size had been leaked, but Nintendo has not officially given in their official reveal a single specification, nor shown a single game, unless we count that underwhelming Mario Kart footage. That's what I find disappointing.
I'm a fan of the design. Iterative and just different enough to look new.
@JimNorman
Can you add photos of the joy con straps / mouse bases?
(One of the few things that had not been leaked in advance.)
Not a great first impression.
100% CGI.
New MK looks like MK8D.
The orange colour looks indeed more like salmon.
The borders are larger vs the OLED Switch.
And a march release date is now ruled out.
Weird first trailer...
@Baircade Nope
I'm all for mostly an iteration on the Switch concept but again, there might still be a couple of surprises even when it comes to the hardware and of course we still don't know anything about the software as in both the system's and the games except for the new Mario Kart so I'm so looking forward to all of that (and potentially more) on April 2!
@OldGamer999 Calm down hipster.
Would we say orange? I'd call it more of a coral.
"Switch 2 will boast ports galore and new buttons on top, too:"
What do you mean new buttons on top?
There's a power button and the volume buttons. Nothing new.
oooooo pretty!
Way too slick and stylish. I miss the spark of fun and imagination in this new machine.
It feels like Nintendo is a kid that has grownup.
I‘d agree that the trailer was very safe and not too exciting. And I’m not sure the console itself looks ‘Nintendo’ enough, it has a certain generic dudebro Steam look… hoping for a second color option!
In the end it’s about the games, which will be great of course.
It's a shame the leaks ruined any surprise element for this reveal.
"Gone is the rail system" oh, sweet music to my ears. Had far more issues with that than any joycon drift
@8bit-Man Wii U really was their best console, just too slow and graphics outdated as usual. GameCube was very unique too. Loved the shape and loved those mini CDs.
Thank god they kept the earphone port and havent done what most mobiles have done now.
Now give us the specs, I dont care how it looks (to be honest I think its a bit ugly)
@abbyhitter
"It's a shame the leaks ruined any surprise element for this reveal."
What are you talking about? Did you see those joy con straps? And the missing C?
Don't like that stand. What was wrong with the OLED stand?
I would have preferred to have more ergonomic joycons, never got on with originals and these are basically the same, don't know how long it'll take for 3rd party options (especially if the rumoured mouse functionality is there)
Really minor and inconsequential criticism,but I kinda hate this "salmon" color they went with. Hopefully there's more colors avaliable even at launch
@Dom_31 sadly we're probably not getting a new Xeno series game any time soon, since the X port hasn't even launched yet
All good, only concern is the some games will not be compatible note. Hopefully its some dropped feature like clearly these joycon would not go into the ringfit ring, or maybe they dropped the IR sensor, so that'd take like 3 games out the equation.
Just worried its more sinister like, say for example, BOTW doesn't work, you'd need to buy the remastered version.
i love the design, i love the colors ...but guys you forgot to share your opinion on the maybe teased mouse functionality in the teaser
...Are we calling that 'orange'? :/
And, ah yes, the 'new buttons' that aren't new at all. C'mon guys.
This looks great but I was really hoping for a dynamic trigger, but oh well
Will they update the NSO NES controllers? There won't be a way to charge them anymore. Well, not without an external charger.
@Lofoten Yep, I have been updating this one with some more 'blink and you'll miss it' moments! I'm also getting strong 'mouse' vibes from that part of the trailer 😎
@Baircade NintendoLife messed up these screenshots, maybe saving them with the wrong color profile or something. The colors are much more muted than they are in the trailer or elsewhere.
@Axecon capture button?
I wouldn't be surprised if colour options come quite quickly and the modern black is intended to help separate the Switch and Switch 2 at launch.
@Siskan Yeah! Glad someone else noticed that. Nintendo's website has clearer renders, and shows how the disconnect feature works.
https://www.nintendo.com/successor/en-us/index.html
I mean it's exactly what I expected so I'm not really disappointed.
@Siskan
They look better on Nintendo’s site but they still give off poor color profile vibes, I always associate that salmon shade with poor color reproduction as it’s how red would usually look on a lot of LCD screens in the 00’s
@JimNorman
Nice.
For a fraction of a second one can also see it detached from the joycon:
1:11 (one up close) and 1:17 (somewhat out of focus).
Seems it might be totally open in the middle for direct access to all buttons and functions.
EDIT: Right, I see you already added the second look at the detached ones.
Maybe the "C" button is for bringing up the virtual keyboard.
The mouse feature is to bring in more "desktop-only" games like RTSs. The virtual keyboard co-exists with this.
Side note: Funny how they dropped the IR sensor from the Joy-Con and not a single comment on it. I know that it'll contain another sensor but of course it means that things like Labo aren't viable anymore.
No IR Sensor? I love my Labo Piano though, I thought Labo was really cool! awww...
Welcome to the Switch XL....
I like the look, but if it doesn't have an OLED screen, I'll wait. I'm not going back.
Not a fan of the black and pastel combination tbh. Hoping they offer some joy-con more akin to what we had on the Switch.
@Baircade I have a feeling the salmon is more the fault of the 3D render, and in-person the color may resemble more of a soft orange. Watch the video again, and at 1:05 the background color flashes much darker. And if you pause it, the contrast in color makes the Joycon magnet appear different than salmon.
We'll just have to wait until April to see the color in person before I agree that it's definitely salmon.
The Dock….this could hold some more secrets to the Switch 2
This all looks lovely and slick. I just can’t help but feel slightly bitter at how this has turned out to be the most spoiled Nintendo system ever. It’s a disgrace.
But, hey… it’s still new Nintendo hardware, so hype!
@Baircade,
I would not buy they one if I were you.
@Dev1024,
To be honest it's not all that important, after all the Switch 2 was always goiung to look pretty similar to the original.
@chiimaero Completely agree, such an underwhelming reveal, had they said nothing it could've still been more than what we thought in our heads and imagination, now they confirmed; it's bland, boring, no idea if it's faster or better or innovative in some way and we won't be talking about it for the next 3 months.
I'm a huge fan, but the marketing team is not as good as it could be here, absolutely no hype or excitement is created here.
And Mario Kart first look is also superunderwhelming.
Perhaps with the full direct we'll be superhyped, but then this trailer is superweird in terms of scope and timing.
They stuck with that boring green LED on the dock... That's disappointing. The logo should have a subtle glow. Nintendo used to do nice things with lights. GameCube with his orange light and Wii with the nice blue around the disc slot.
The JoyCon connector looks just like the connector used for the Ships, Parts and Figures from StarLink: Battle for Atlas!
So is it 8nm or 5nm?!?!?! lol, just kidding. But I expected a lot of chatter about that all over again 😂🤣🤦♂️🤦♂️
Yeah, that Mario Kart footage looks like a tech demo. Mario Bros. Circuit? It doesn’t look anything like a Mario Bros. related track.
Complaints about leaks and about lack of specs kinda cancel out: it seems likely to me that this reveal was not meant to be this early. Thus, they didn't include the info that couldn't be leaked like price and specs. Leaks forced them to go ahead and confirm those things, but with a bit of a delay so that they could put together a REALLY crisp and fancy video.
@RobTheIII Same. I think we'll definitely see special edition Joy-Con of various colors and visual designs. I think this more muted design is geared at a more 'hard-core gamer' 'mature' 'adult' aesthetic. It makes the original Switch look like a kid's toy in comparison.
But I like my toys. If there's a more colorful variant at launch, I'm buying that, but this design isn't going to stop me from buying day 1.
I'm wondering two things:
1) Are those Triggers analogue finally?
2) If the Joycons are "mice", does the system properly support actual mice and will we get strategy games and MMORPGs like on PC or just gimicky stuff?
Bigger/more ergonomic joycons...my aching wrists and cramped hands are shouting in glee.
@Waveboy
I get that they're probably doing it to keep the price low for a console that isn't established yet, but unfortunately I'm playing quite a lot in handheld mode and my OLED spoiled me. And I'm not one of the people who can afford to make buying consoles twice a regular habit (I only have an OLED because I really loved the design of the TOTK one and my old V1's battery barely lasted an hour playing Animal Crossing)
I'm waiting for the White color bundle.
Crappy update, imho. This is more 1.5 than a 2. However, I'll probably upgrade to stay in the loop. (A stand! How original! I'll also continue hating using joycons, they are far too small for adult hands to meaningfully hold and use.) I still long for a dedicated beefier home console like the Wii U. Your only flagship devide shouldn't be portable unless its as powerful as its competitors devices.
@Waveboy thank you especially for the 3ds video link! That was such a different tone. It had me and my kids in stiches laughing. It looked so fun. I want more of that.
I want to know the bezel vs screen size for being a 8" if that what it comes out. Also the cart slot we haven't seen it how it looks and what the v2 games cart looks like the Direct doesn't show a v2 cart would be like. If they could show BOTW or Witcher 3 gaming that would be great. Maybe they would demo that at the April 2 and I hope they do that that would showcase the 4k/dlss how it improves performance.
Am I the only person who doesn't play switch handheld? Would prefer a regular console as the hybrid function is wasted on me
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