Nintendo Switch 2 unveiled: will be released on 5 June for €469. The novelty is Game Chat
The C button that stands for Game Chat introduces an online shared game mode.
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We already knew the name. Nintendo Switch 2, the Big N's new console, will be released in June for €469. As announced during the Nintendo Direct, there are two new features: the C button, which stands for Game Chat, and an accessory called the Nintendo Switch Camera. Together (or separate) they will allow you to share games, 'chat' with your voice while you play, or broadcast your game to your friends' screens Twitch-style, associating your face with the characters you choose. Imagine a cheerful gaming videoconference, that is.
Nintendo, in short, does not change everything as it did in the transition between Wii and Wii U. After eight years and more than 150 million units sold, it comes out on the market with a machine that retains the hybrid design of its predecessor, allowing it to be used both as a handheld console and as a living room gaming machine to be connected to the television set at home. The choice is dictated by numbers and common sense. Switch is Nintendo's second most successful gaming system ever (after Nintendo DS) and the third best-selling console of all time.
To change too much, as the House of Kyoto has accustomed us in the past, would not have been prudent, especially at a time like the present, when the console market has been in the doldrums for the past two years, with the new generations increasingly looking to smartphones and PCs. Today, Nintendo's 'blue ocean' is populated by films at the cinema (the second Super Mario will be released this year and Zelda next year) and theme parks.
The price is high, but the competition in recent years has been no less. To this day, Nintendo Switch 2's worst enemy, however, is not Xbox, video game streaming, or even PlayStation, but Nintendo Switch, which remains years later a gaming machine - perhaps the last of its kind - that is still amazing.
The C button and Game Share.
C stands for Game Chat you will be able to talk to your friends during games. Your voice is recognised by a microphone on the console that promises to isolate what you say from the noise of the house. It will then also be possible to chat while playing different games. Small screens of your friends will appear on the screen. So for all intents and purposes it is a kind of interface for spending time together and chatting while playing games. There is also an accessory - Nintendo Switch Camera - which is a small camera placed on a rod to transmit not only your voice but also your image into the screen. The camera can be used for Mario Party and will therefore allow players to associate with our faces, Carnival Coaster and Bowser Live (for singing). Game Share is instead a function for sharing games locally, i.e. when you are in the same room on the same Wi-Fi network. Basically with this new Nintendo Switch 2 feature, players can share and play the same game with others who don't have it. If a person has a Nintendo Switch 2 system and a GameShare-compatible copy of a game, they can invite others to play the game temporarily in local communication with their Nintendo Switch 2 or Nintendo Switch system. Between Nintendo Switch 2 consoles, GameShare can also be used in conjunction with GameChat for online play, so that people can chat with others while enjoying the same game.
