We finally have the Switch 2 in our hands. Itās a chonker! Nintendoās biggest gaming handheld yet looks familiar on paper, but makes a stronger impression in person. Weāre not ready to review the new $450 gaming console just yet. Thatāll take a lot more testing and game time to get familiar with all of its little changes, improvements, and quirks. Players spent more than eight years with the Switch 1. Itāll take more than eight hours to get a good handle on its successor.
But in the meantime, weāre already really enjoying our time with the Switch 2 outside of a few annoying shortcomings and design choices that havenāt yet won us over. Calling it just a bigger, stronger Switch might sound boring, but in practice, it totally rocks. Hereās what we love and hate about the Switch 2 after our first day with it.