To continue with my "moment in time" thoughts on Switch 2 I'm making a Blogger post instead of putting on my Nintendo AGENDA page just to delete it later.
2 minutes...if you're ready to make a negative snap judgement on all things Switch 2 from this, then you're silly. Reasonable people wanted a more powerful Switch that was backwards compatible, they got it! Unreasonable people wanted something completely different (without knowing all the features, yet) and crazy power (without seeing what it could do, yet) so they call it boring...there's no satisfying these types!
I know we all wanted more information, but Nintendo saw fit with all the leaks happening that this is what they'd show now. All the leaks ending being true from this trailer and this first look goes straight to the point to confirm important info. The continued Switch hybrid form factor, the name, the larger screen & joy-cons, that the joy-cons are magnetically connected and have mouse functionality, that it's backwards compatible...trailer actually showed off a lot if you didn't already know that stuff from leaks & rumors and it conveyed it without a complicated explanation. I was curious on how the joy-cons would work with a strap and a grip and they showed that off. Aesthetically it looks the same as the current Switch yet less toy-like in it's colors & contours. At the end of the trailer they tell us we'll get a lot more info in April followed by Switch 2 Experience live events which is telling us it should launch soon after!
The leaks showed that the extra button was a "C" button but this trailer removed the C marking from the button maybe to tell us about it later? The "mic" marking for the microphone hole was also missing so maybe that's all related since rumors say the C stood for a communication function? Communication, community, connect, chat or as one rumor put it: "Campus" (like those old Nintendo Campus Challenge tour events from the '90's?) so it probably has to do with that but Nintendo would make a bigger deal of it later when they reveal more about Switch 2 online features.
From this short trailer we also got how Nintendo was showing off Switch 2 as both a part of the Switch family but also the next-gen machine. Same red logo branding, same form factor but with a big "2" to make it clear this is an iterative system...but also the NEXT system. This could be a smart approach if marketed as a continuation as opposed to starting all over.
What we really wanted...and what really matters...is games! We only got one, the next Mario Kart. Again, people were quick to say it looked like the Mario Kart we have on current Switch ignoring that it's so much more if you pay attention. Jumping from 12 racers to 24 is one thing, but this next video really shows how much more this next Mario Kart is:
So that brings us to power, after all: more power = more games, right? Raw specs really shouldn't matter and don't really tell us much since people gauge "power" in different ways. Jumping from 4GB of RAM to 12GB of (faster) RAM is one thing, but what's really telling about performance is all the (more current) games already rumored to be coming to Switch 2: