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Nintendo asks gamers to embrace improvements and price increases with the new Switch 2 | hands-on with hardware

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Nintendo has gone seven years without a new game console, and now it is unveiling the Switch 2 for a low low price of $80 for games and $450 for platforms.

The Switch 2 is the first Nintendo console in a while that doesn’t have an original name, and so it has the boring name of Switch 2 and it is making some gamers wonder if there is enough innovation in this system. Nintendo’s own hardware designers admitted that they struggled to come up with a good name.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.