Nintendo’s pricey new Switch 2 has been updated to create a product that feels both familiar and improved. WIRED spent some time with it.

The latter seems like the better option seeing that some Nintendo Switch 2 games will cost $80 or $90, depending on whether you like digital downloads or physical releases. Speaking of digital things, Switch 2 microSD cards are also more expensive because they’re fast, like SSDs. No, the old memory cards you already own won’t work.

The Nintendo Switch 2 Direct revealed a lot about the new console, but there are plenty more details out there you might not have heard.

According to Nvidia, the Switch 2 has 10x the graphics performance of the original Switch and features DLSS, VRR, and ray tracing.

Judging by the online discourse, the Switch 2 reveal did not win over the gaming public as much as Nintendo might have hoped.

While players on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S ditched physical games in favor of digital downloads in droves, Switch fans had been holding the line. But that might change with the Switch 2, thanks to physical edition price hikes and controversial game-key cards that don’t include the full game out of the box.

The $49.99 Genki Joy-Station looks like a sleek way to avoid the annoying juggling act of keeping more than two Joy-Cons charged, with some additional, well thought-out functional