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Watching video game history happen again with the Nintendo Switch 2

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The Nintendo Switch 2 was announced today and it immediately made me nostalgic about the launch of the original Switch that came in 2017.

Nintendo revealed the prior machine, the Nintendo Switch, back on October 20, 2016 in a Nintendo Direct. It was from a position of weakness, due to the poor sales of the Nintendo Wii U, which sold only 13.56 million units compared to the prior success of the Nintendo Wii, which sold more than 101.6 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.