Here’s What the Nintendo Switch 2 Might Look Like

We already person a beauteous bully idea of the Nintendo Switch 2′s powerfulness and specs, and present we person a amended thought of its appearance, too. A video of a 3D-printed dummy shows however Nintendo ballooned its handheld with a larger surface and a fewer other buttons and ports.

YouTube transmission SwitchUp posted a video claiming they received a 3D-printed Switch 2 dummy made to assistance designers make cases. If that sounds sketchy to your ears, SwitchUp said the mock-up came from lawsuit decorator iVoler, which “wanted to get their sanction retired there.” Nintendo has been capable to keep a beauteous choky lid connected its console truthful far, but it would needfully request to nonstop retired specs of its console to third-party case designers to person much accessories disposable astatine launch.

The expected Switch 2 is simply a bigger instrumentality than the archetypal Switch. That’s partially owed to the caller 8-inch display, though, with bezels akin to those of Nintendo’s archetypal handheld console. The size bump whitethorn marque it easier for adult-sized hands to handle. The Switch 2 besides has much rounded corners but maintains the aforesaid bladed framework that made the archetypal Switch truthful famously light. However, there’s an further fastener connected the Switch 2 controller that wasn’t determination connected the archetypal JoyCons. SwitchUp speculated it could beryllium an in-game surface seizure button.

There’s inactive a headphone jack, powerfulness and measurement button, and backmost kickstand. What’s caller is simply a USB-C larboard connected the top. While the bottommost inactive houses what appears to beryllium a proprietary charging larboard to plug into an official Nintendo dock, we’d emotion to spot if you could besides complaint it with immoderate spare powerfulness ceramic we person lying astir the house.  If it accepts powerfulness and peripheral connections, it whitethorn beryllium compatible with docks made for steam decks oregon different handhelds. Knowing Nintendo, that’s not a apt scenario, but it’s amusive to dream.

Another absorbing enactment astir the iVoler lawsuit is that it inactive includes slots for carrying your Switch cartridges. Nintendo officially mentioned past period that the Switch 2 would beryllium backward compatible to immoderate degree. If the lawsuit is genuinely made for the upcoming Switch 2, it could beryllium much confirmation Nintendo is sticking with carnal media astatine astir the aforesaid size. All the while, competing console makers are edging distant from carnal crippled ownership. The PlayStation 5 Pro doesn’t vessel with a disc thrust successful the box.

Switch 2 hype is astatine such a fever pitch that Chinese accessory sellers are already promoting cases and solid protectors for the still-unannounced sequel Switch. There’s not overmuch much to spell disconnected of with these doodads and surface protectors different than that Nintendo’s soundlessness is each the much deafening.

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— Wario64 (@Wario64) December 3, 2024

We’d emotion to yet spot it successful person, but Nintendo has lone acknowledged the console exists and promised to denote thing by the extremity of its fiscal year, which ends adjacent March. Spanish-language Nintendo-focused site Nintenduo claimed, based connected anonymous developer sources, that the Switch 2 merchandise was pushed backmost to June oregon July. While there’s thing to verify that, the deficiency of authoritative connection from Nintendo is simply a small concerning arsenic we caput into the caller year.