The announcement doesn't come as a surprise—especially in the wake of CES 2025, where several peripheral makers were bold enough to display replicas of the unrevealed hardware to showcase their Switch 2 accessories—but you might be shocked at just how closely the upcoming Switch 2 sticks to the form and function of its predecessor.

So far, Best Buy is the only retailer to confirm it will have pre-orders for the Switch 2. There's already a page dedicated to the Switch 2 and those interested can submit their email to get a notification of when pre-orders are available. Other retailers likely to have Switch 2 pre-orders sometime in the near future are Amazon, Target and Walmart.

Gaming giant Nintendo revealed its newest console Thursday in a highly anticipated announcement gamers had been waiting for since rumors of its release first spread years ago. The Nintendo Switch 2, the successor to the Nintendo Switch system,

The next Nintendo console could be announced this week, and the leaks seem to keep coming. Here's what we know.

It's finally here, the announcement we've all been waiting for: the Nintendo Switch 2 is real...and that's about all we know for sure. A trailer for the new console didn't have anything in the way of specs,

The message was punctuated with both the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 playing a physical copy of Super Mario Wonder. With physical sales declining, it's great to see Nint