Customers curious around the US and the world on Thursday stood in line to collect their pre-or-ordered Nintendo Switch 2 video game console outside the electronics stores.
The much awaited switch 2, being released worldwide at midnight on Thursday, is an upgrade for its eight -year -old predecessor with new social characteristics to draw players into online gaming. Nintendo is counting on switch 2 to promote sales.
In the US, in April, an chaotic pre-order process disappointed some fans after disappointing. Nevertheless, some curious fans started the target in the hope of buying retail vendors such as a unit in early Thursday.
Edgar Huo said, “I am rolling the dice here,” Edgar Huo said, which was in a line of about 25 outside a target in the Tribka neighborhood of Manhattan, New York. Many of those who waited for the store to open had ordered online, but some people like Hu expected a chance to buy any additional inventory of the store.
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In Japan, the new console was sold through a competitive lottery system, which Nintendo said that approximately 2.2 million applications were received.
Outside the official draw, some retailers offered their lottery to pre-order tools.
Nintendo Switch 2 features
The original switch released in 2017 is one of the most popular games of all time, “Skott Stein, Editor at Cnet, at-Laarge, told CBS News Boston in January.
The new console comes with a larger and high resolution screen than its predecessor, with better processing power, offers smooth and more vivid graphics. For its updated system, the central is a new “C” button on its controller, which will launch a “gameChat” feature, which requires a subscription for the switch online service of the nintendo. This allows players to “communicate with friends and family”, and allow them to share their game screen with others. A built -in microphone will also allow chatting with other gamers.
Nintendo has said that it expects to sell 15 million switch 2 console for the financial year through March 2026.
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The company has promised to roll out attractive software for Switch 2 later this year, including “The Legend of Zelda” games, a Pokémon Title and a Kirby Games, as well as offerings from external software companies.
Nintendo is capitalizing at launch with the opening of a store in San Francisco and Super Nintendo World Entertainment Facility In Orlando, Florida, both are set for this month.
The rollout of Switch 2 comes at an indefinite time for most of the gaming industry due to the new tariff implemented by US President Donald Trump.
In the US, the baseline launch value of Switch 2 is $ 449.99 – significantly higher than the $ 299 value tag of the original switch.
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The price of a “Mario Cart World” game for the new console is $ 80, for the first time marking a nintendo game $ 80, Washington Post Video Game Reporter Jean Park Told CBS News In April.
Park said, “This is a little eyebrow-raising. It is actually the first nintendo game to broke $ 80, and there are a lot of things about video games.”
US Prophens for Switch 2 Delay for several weeks Therefore the company may assess the possible impact of tariffs.