Accessory Maker Genki To Discuss 'Switch 2' Info And Products At CES 2025

I’m sure Switch 2 will do solid numbers but Nintendo seem to be dropping the ball with the announcement.

However they’ve obviously decided to let Switch have a last Xmas before announcing the new system so they’ve put themselves in a tight spot

This is genius!!
At this rate, Nintendo won't need to invest that much on publicity.

"Happy to discuss any Switch 2 info we may have as well as the stuff we're making for it."

I'm sure Nintendo will be at least equally happy.. to see you in court! 😂

Ahhh, the old bait and Switch 2 info

Way to put a target on your back 💀💀💀

This is just getting silly.

Just announce it already.

Looking forward to the Nintendo Direct where they announce it and say it’s on sale online and in the Nintendo NYC store directly after it’s over. 😂

That’s the gimmick of the new Switch. It’s not Nintendo who announces the console. It’s everyone else!

They Switched the logic to solve the issue with scalpers. Consumers will one day just find them at their retailers, in mass supply Accessories will have been released for months. Even new games will be available on their new eshop.

Soon we’ll see directs and they will roll right into software announcements. Without ever acknowledging or dropping info directly.

IT’S GENIUS! The scalpers will never know what hit them…

Just announce it already, especially since it’s already January.

Can't wait!!!!!!!!!

I love new hardware reveals especially when it was at E3 with the neat presentations and people cheering.

SWITCH 2 CONFIRMED!!!

„Yes, our Switch 2 accessories will comply with RoHS requirements. What, you want to know technical specifications of the Switch 2? How should we know that, Genki is a manufacturer of cheap plastic accessories like cases, you can get our stuff on TEMU. Please ask Nintendo directly.“

Would be funny if nintendo released a big trailer one day before this event.

@Knightrider1 No one in their right mind expected Nintendo to announce the Switch 2 before Christmas and deliberately shoot themselves in the foot and miss out on vital Christmas sales.

You not going to announce a new Console before Christmas, that won't release until later 2025. That's just common business sense 101.

Everyone's announcing Switch 2 except Nintendo.

And the spec leaks online are wild: my 10 year old laptop is better. I hope it's not true.

@EriXz You could argue that they've let the internet take care of it for themselves - much the same as with the NX, all they had to do was show a powerpoint slide and let people's imaginations run wild...in this case it was a couple of tweets.

@JohnnyMind Still waiting to see what the UI looks like, because I found these UI concepts on Reddit and Twitter which look like they keep the simplicity of the Switch UI but also show backgrounds from different games.

I actually like them and hope for one of those to be the Switch 2’s UI (I somehow lean more towards the one from Twitter. Close to PS4/PS5 but looks more lively than the original Switch’s UI).

I also like how they put game backgrounds as themes there, which should be a feature on Switch 2. Maybe we’ll also get some sort of Theme Shop to not only get the themes we want, but also choosing the music we want to have playing in the HOME Menu. In fact, if they bring themes to Switch 2, they should also allow us to get some with My Nintendo Platinum Points.

I'm sorry but all the doom and gloom with no official announcement I find ludicrous. The idea that people are no longer going to buy it because it may come out a few months later is frankly ridiculous.

@Dazman Your 10 year old laptop likely didn’t cost (today‘s equivalent of) 400€ and wasn’t as compact either, was it? I read these comparisons all the time.. „my iPhone has better graphics“ yeah well your iPhone cost 1200€ 🤯 Nintendo consoles are dirt cheap compared to other devices.

@Dee123 Yeah people are just venting their frustration cause they’re impatient. But as soon as Nintendo pulls the curtain everybody will be hyped. Or not, if they present something stupid (but I don’t expect them to).

Happy to discuss any switch 2 into we may have....which is nothing

Switch 2 announcement will probably be March with a high street release around October. I imagine Nintendo understand that the switch 1 will still remain the main console for the rest of 2025 and into 2026 as first adopters will mostly be fans rather than families (especially those who have recently purchased switch 1).

@NintendoWife People who want a low-powered handheld already have the Switch - which is about 300 Euros. The laptop cost 800 at the time and is now ten years old and is better than the supposed specs of the Switch 2. It's quite laughable, really. I don't know why you're defending it. Of course, it could just be fake leaks.

I mean, what can they possibly say that hasn't already been said? Feels like they're throwing that out there as bait

This could just be a trap to get people to their booth! I love it 😂🤣

@Dazman I don't know what leak / info you're referring to. But I've been following the discussion at Digital Foundry over the past years. They've had a pretty clear picture of the hardware for a while now, and it's always been quite modest because of Nintendo's history and priorities. DF was never shocked about that. Did anything new come to light?

I don't know how your comparison works either, one is a mobile chipset and your laptop uses different types of CPU and GPU. Are you talking about benchmarks?

Either way I'm not concerned. There's only so much you can pack into a cheap device if you're not willing to sell at a loss, which Nintendo has categorically never done. But they know what they're doing, it's going to be much better than Switch and good enough for me. I've been around since the NES and don't need cutting edge graphics.

Oh and I've checked with an inflation calculator, your laptop would cost 1000€ today.

@rjejr if that’s the case, I sincerely hope it’s when I’m over in N.Y.C. in April 😅

@JohnnyMind With the extra power the Switch 2 is rumored to get, the return of themes and UI music are a possibility. Just because it’s gonna use the same OS as the Switch doesn’t mean the UI will be the same too. It could get redesigned like in those concepts.

@AmplifyMJ Well that will be your wife’s birthday present done. 😁

@JohnnyMind Just because the Switch 2 is gonna use the Switch’s base OS doesn’t mean they’ll also straight up reuse the same UI (Microsoft did this between Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S). They’ll probably go more of the PlayStation route and redesign the Switch 2 UI like in those links I put up to differentiate it from the Switch.

Also likely for it to happen because of the extra power the Switch 2 is rumored to get. The Switch was limited in power and RAM, so the UI got stripped down so much, but maybe this time they’ll bring back customization like in the 3DS.

Credible sources™ even IRL now?😄 If Nintendo intended to unveil the thing by next Tuesday, we'd have long known this morning, but I suppose an accessory maker can get away with common stuff (like "we're making a case with pockets for Switch cards because backward compatibility and all that") to bait an expo audience with. The "Switch 2" nomenclature autopilot is consistently hilarious as well; there are even fans already getting mad about it in advance, so I dread having to redirect some of my future eShop funds to a load of popcorn if Nintendo ever decides to troll us back and actually roll with the name.😜😏

@MrCarlos46 the 3DS which at least had the upper screen to parade a fair bit of the customization on? Even Vita had a workaround of juggling the installed stuff into leaving the UI with a vacant screen... but I'm still not sure what hooked people on the home consoles' trend of "themes" to view bits and pieces of behind all the game icons. Even I, who uses this stuff upon default availability himself, wouldn't mind seeing the related resources redirected elsewhere like making the resident PS+ app not freeze/crash/glitch every other use - and someone unironically wants the successor to spend its own extra power on fluff rather than facilitating extra ports? Who knows whether Switch itself would be boasting all of its No Man's Skies and Kingdom Comes if it had extensive themes and eShop music to multitask on.

Themes are cute, but I'll take less customization over more "cloud versions" any day.

@nhSnork What are you trying to say by this?

@rjejr it’s gonna be my son’s birthday when we’re there and mine is early May, we’d all be happy 🤣

@nhSnork always one of the most sensible voices here 👏

@Dazman You cannot compare a big gaming laptop and a small handheld like the Switch.

It's simple physics. It's only so much you can do in a tiny space of a handheld without getting overheating issues or forced to use tight fit earplugs to not get annoyed by extremely loud fan noise to keep the SoC from melting the case and burn your hands.

Just look at today's Windows handhelds with the AMD Extreme SoC and how loud those fans get to keep the system cooled and still it has throttling issues in demanding games.

The rumor of the new NVidia SoC in the Switch 2 is that it's performance will be on par with the PS4, which is a huge performance boost from the Switch 1. Plus it will support the latest DLSS tech to offer 2K (or even 4K) upscaling when docked to TV.
Again, a huge resolution boost to the Switch 1, which topped out at 1080p, but often struggled and throttled down to 720-900p in demanding games.

So if the Switch 2 can offer a steady solid 2K resolution with DLSS when docked. That would be an amazing improvement and frankly good enough visually on most TV's, unless you sit 3 feet away from a 100inch TV.

@AmplifyMJ I would agree with that… @nhSnork eloquently applying logic in an ocean of knee jerk.

@JohnnyMind Off-topic, but I found your comment on the article talking about how the Switch 2 eShop could be fixed, and when I found the part that mentions "a universal store that operates almost akin to the AppStore in that titles displayed will run on the hardware you’re navigating the store on along with different labels and/or sections for Switch 1 and 2," I’m pretty sure that would already be the My Nintendo Store (as well as having its other selections, because no joke, being able to also purchase hardware, Switch/Switch 2 accessories or even other merchandise like toys and apparel straight from your Switch 2 would be fire), so they could use that as the Switch 2 storefront and add some extra features if they wanted to, unless the universal store part was referring to something else.

@JohnnyMind They’d also have to update it for Switch even if it ends up continuing to run laggy there while it runs smoother on Switch 2, unless it’s the Switch 2 using the same one as the Switch (but with new features if possible)

@JohnnyMind Switch 2 eShop does need some sort of redesign and new features tho, like a shopping cart feature, as well as rating/review, gifting and filtering features, as well as music like with the UI (assuming Switch 2 brings back UI music).

@JohnnyMind Also more realistic than using the My Nintendo Store, because part from security and technical reasons, then there’s also more to it: Regions, and that Nintendo would have to be the proprietor of the My Nintendo Store in each region to be consistent.

On top of that, each My Nintendo Store region has different offerings, and it could also become a problem when one region has better offerings than another.

@JohnnyMind One other thing I would also change for the Switch 2 eShop is with languages. They don’t need to change it so eShop language is based on your console language, but there is another option: Just add English as another language for all the other eShop regions that don’t have English as a language.

Here are some examples of what I mean:

1.
Country: Belgium
Languages: Dutch, French (France), English (United Kingdom)

2.
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese, English (United States)

3.
Country: South Korea
Languages: Korean, English (United States)

4.
Country: Brazil
Languages: Portuguese (Brazil), English (United States)

5.
Country: Spain
Languages: Spanish (Spain), English (United Kingdom)

6.
Country: Switzerland
Languages: French (France), German, Italian, English (United Kingdom)

7.
Country: Italy
Languages: Italian, English (United Kingdom)

8.
Countries: Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru (and then also if they choose to expand more into Latin America)
Languages: Spanish (Latin America), English (United States); basically like the US eShop

9.
Countries: Germany, Austria
Languages: German, English (United Kingdom)

10.
Country: France
Languages: French (France), English (United Kingdom)

11.
Country: Netherlands
Language: Dutch, English (United Kingdom)

12.
Country: Portugal
Language: Portuguese (Portugal), English (United Kingdom)

@JohnnyMind Unless the reason the Switch eShop looks as it is right now is to future-proof it for future generations, although I don’t think that would be the case.

I still wanna see a universal eShop for both tho which also fixes the Switch eShop’s issues and adds new stuff, kinda something like this, Better eShop by the team at Nintendo Life.

@JohnnyMind I think they forgot to check the quality games listed as “shovelware.” Maybe do separate categories for shovelware: Quality Shovelware, and Low Quality Shovelware

@JohnnyMind Maybe Nintendo is taking the criticism the Switch eShop got and is trying to fix it for Switch 2.

Except if such universal store happens and it also gets brought over to Switch 1, There’s a possible chance it lags if the new one is built to be an app this time and then has to be converted into a web version.

@JohnnyMind How did I forget? Not every region even has a My Nintendo Store. For example: Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Brazil don’t have one. This just makes it even less likely Nintendo ever uses the My Nintendo Store as the storefront on any console unless they launch it in the other regions they officially distribute/have an eShop in.

At that point I’d prefer the universal eShop route with a redesign and new features as listed above.

@JohnnyMind Even if they do consider bringing the My Nintendo Store to other regions, it definitely won’t be this year or the next. It will probably be 2 years or more before such store comes to Latin America and other regions.

@JohnnyMind A few days ago I made this thread on Nintendo and expansion to other regions.