Dean, 15, from the mid-peninsula, bought the first Nintendo Switch 2 in San Francisco.
Dean, 15, from the mid-peninsula, bought the first Nintendo Switch 2 in San Francisco.
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Nintendo brings back late-night console launches with debut of Switch 2

Nintendo brought back late-night game console launches tonight as people across the world waited in line to get the Nintendo Switch 2.

For the first time in eight years, Nintendo fans had a chance to wait in line like the good days as they spent hundreds of dollars a piece on the new game console and its accessories. The Switch 2 replaces the Switch, which debuted in 2017 and sold 150 million units.

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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.