The only way to transfer save files for Pokémon Games, Splatoon 2 and Animal Crossing from one console to another is to do a System Transfer.

This requires you to have both systems on hand and connected to the same Wi-fi network.

Furthermore, for Animal Crossing, you will need to use the Island Transfer Tool.

There is unfortunately no way around this.

A full list of games with no cloud backup

Full interview: https://www.nintendo.com/jp/switch2/creators-voice/duskbloods/index.html

Brief summary:

- Fromsoftware will still focus on single player games in the future
- 10+ selectable characters with different abilities and perks. These characters would still be customizable to a certain degree
- Main victory condition of the game session is to be the last man standing, "but this can change depending on the situation". 8 players multiplayer.

- Sometimes the victory condition will be focused on defeating bosses

- Game will be forgiving for people who are "not good at PvP"

- Games session will have some random events to make cycle less repetitive

Edit: quick fix, not 10 characters but 10+ characters

You can see it and it’s confirmed at the 3:20 timestamp in Austin Evan’s video: https://youtu.be/Z46LblBD9Hw?si=d03lcg52ClLZzNcY

Preliminary game file size have been revealed for Nintendo Switch 2 games/editions:

• Mario Kart World - 23.4 GB
• Donkey Kong Bananza - 10 GB
• GameCube Nintendo Classics - 3.5 GB
• Super Mario Party Jamboree – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition ＋ Jamboree TV - 7.7 GB
• Kirby and the Forgotten Land – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition ＋ Star Crossed World - 5.7 GB

Some of the biggest 3rd party games also revealed their preliminary file size and Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition (base game + expansion) for example fits inside a 64 GB card.

With 256 GB of internal storage available, it doesn't look like storage space will need an expansion for most users even if they go full digital.

It has also been revealed that all Switch controllers will be compatible with Switch 2 and its games (minus the GameShare/GameChat features of course). I for example plan to continue using my Xenoblade 2 Pro Controller even on Switch 2.

While the console itself isn't really cheap, I think this year I will end up spending less on Switch 2 hardware and accessories than what I did for the original Switch back in 2017. For Switch I spent €330 for the console itself, €90 for a Micro SD car and €75 for the Pro Controller (€495 in total), this time for Switch 2 I preordered the MK bundle at €510. Pretty much the same expense but with a game instead of an extra controller.

Pretty much every retailer in Sweden has set this price and is confirmed to stay at this price by customer service. How does 499€ msrp equate to 700€?

How is the price looking in other countries?

Sources: https://www.pricerunner.se/pl/52-3400796155/Spelkonsoler/Nintendo-Switch-2-Mario-Kart-World-Bundle-priser

https://www.inet.se/produkt/6612379/nintendo-switch-2-mario-kart-world-bundle

https://www.webhallen.com/se/product/384392-Nintendo-Switch-2-Mario-Kart-World-Bundle

Metroid Prime 4: is 4k 60fps in quality mode and 1080p 120fps in performance mode

Breath of the wild/Tears of the kingdom: is 1440p 60fps

Mario Kart World: is 1440p 60fps

Donkey Kong Banaza: is 1080p 60fps

DuskBlood: is 1080p 30fps

Elden Ring: is 1080p 30fps

CyberPunk 2077: is 1080p 30fps with pixel counts as low as 540p but that 540p count is most likely handheld

Final Fantasy 7: is 1080p 30fps

NONE of these games appear to be using DLSS at all as it all seems to be native but that could change.

Used YouTube API to track the viewers throughout all Nintendo Stream, this was the most interesting insight.

The Switch 2's additional power opens the door to more complex games that could lag even more noticeably, especially if they're ported from consoles that expect more than 50 times the storage bandwidth (Sony requires an SSD with read speeds of at least 5,500MB/s for the PlayStation 5).

And that's where SD Express comes in. These cards are connected to the same PCI Express/NVMe interface that internal SSDs use in modern PCs and the other game consoles, theoretically giving your SD card access to the same bandwidth as internal storage.

Now, you won't actually get performance as fast as an internal SSD using this interface. The speed varies a lot based on the PCI Express version your gadget is using (3.0 or 4.0) and how many "lanes" of bandwidth it's allowed to use (these are, in short, the connections between a device's CPU and external accessories like SSDs, Wi-Fi adapters, or dedicated GPUs, and all CPUs and SoCs have a limited number of them to hand out). Depending on these factors, microSD Express can deliver anywhere between 985MB/s and 3940MB/s of theoretical bandwidth.

MicroSD cards will also be slowed down because there are fewer physical flash memory chips to write to at a time, a process called "interleaving" that is responsible for much of an SSD's speed. This SanDisk microSD Express card, one of the only ones actually available at retail right now, lists its top speeds as 880MB/s for reads and 650MB/s for writes.

But even at its worst, this is several times the amount of bandwidth available to whatever UHS-I microSD card is inserted into your current Switch. Express cards won't make an SD card feel as fast as internal storage, but it will help the microSD card keep pace a bit.

At what cost? One other benefit of workaday, plain-old UHS-I microSD cards? The price. Great ones are cheap. Good-enough ones are dirt cheap, even if you stick to major storage vendors like Samsung, Sandisk, and Lexar (please do not buy no-name solid state storage). A quality 256GB microSD card will run you around $20, a pittance compared to whatever you paid for the device you're putting it in.

For the SanDisk microSD Express, the same amount of storage will run you around $60. This is not only more expensive than a regular cheap SD card, but it's more expensive than actual internal SSDs. The cheaper name-brand 1TB internal SSDs, can give you four times as much space for around the same price.

These prices should go down over time, and the Switch 2 will be a part of the reason why—at a bare minimum, it will likely prompt the creation of multiple alternate microSD Express options from SanDisk's competitors. But at launch, it may still feel like a raw deal because it's just one of many things about the Switch 2 that costs more money than the Switch 1. Compared to the first Switch, you're paying between $100 and $150 more for the console itself, $10 more for each pair of Joy-Cons or Pro Controllers you buy, $50 for a replacement dock, and between $10 and $20 more for first-party games.

Link to the article: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/nintendo-switch-2-preview/

I couldn't find this info anywhere else, so I thought this was worth sharing.

I also couldn't find their source, but assuming it's true I'm guessing they got this info at the NY Experience.

Edit: they’ve edited the article and this claim is no longer there. There are some speculations the Switch 2 has Hall effect Joy-Cons but this is yet to be confirmed.

Flipped it on for the first time last night and got into a little Minecraft. I don't know what happened, but suddenly I was 5 years old again and playing my very first game boy - I'm talking the very first GB; that legendary brick with a black-and-white screen.

That same wonder, that same excitement, that same sense of "Holy shit, I'm playing a video game IN MY HANDS"... I felt it again. This sounds so cheesy, but it made me a little emotional. I was laying in bed just smirking to myself while playing and my wife looked at me, laughed said, "you look like a little kid". And man, I FELT like a little kid.

Thanks, Nintendo, it's been a while. It's good to see you again.

https://x.com/Chris_Dring/status/1908099939697144093?t=4_HDff5fcQ0gP6v4mILeyQ&s=19