Oh man, here we go—Nintendo dropped their shiny new toy, the Switch 2, and apparently it’s flying off the shelves like, well, hotcakes. They said 3.5 million units in four days. Let that sink in. That’s like, almost a million more than the OG Switch did in its first month. Madness, right? June 5 was the big day, and boom, records crashed. The folks over at Nintendo are practically halfway to their goal of 15 mil by March 2026. Ambitious much?
Now, full disclosure, not everything was rainbows and sunshine. Take this: Some folks in New York hit up GameStop to snag their consoles, only to find their screens with gnarly holes. Staples! Attaching receipts! Who’d have thought? The annoyed crowd did get replacements, thank goodness.
Hop across the big puddle to the UK, and surprise, surprise—some units were already unboxed, kind of. Broken seals, tape failing its one job. Figures, right?
Oh, the tech stuff—bear with me here. The Switch 2 says adios to some battery life but brings in cool upgrades: Joy-Con 2 controllers that act like a mouse, a big ol’ 7.9-inch screen with full HD and 120Hz. Fancy.
Now, under the hood—brace yourself—it’s got eight ARM Cortex whatever cores, a special Nvidia Ampere GPU, 12GB of super-fast RAM, and storage that can go from 256GB to a whopping 2TB if you’ve got a tiny, magical storage card. Oh, and here’s a nugget for the modders out there: some DIYers reckon you could throw an M2 SSD in there. Not sure how, but hey, dream big.
Despite all this, if you’re hunting for a Switch 2 right now, don’t fret. Apparently, GameStop, Best Buy, and some places in the UK still have stock.
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