The Nintendo Switch 2 is here: all of the launch news

After a long wait filled with leaks, reveals, preorder stress, and hands-on events, the Nintendo Switch 2’s launch has finally arrived.

Nintendo’s next console looks like a worthy successor to the original Switch, and it has a lot of games to play on day one, including the brand new Mario Kart World and upgrades to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. The Switch 2 also has new software features like the Discord-like GameChat, which could make it easier to trash talk your friends. There are new accessories, too, including an improved Pro Controller.

Now that the Switch 2 is finally in people’s hands, we can all dive in on what it’s like to actually have the console in our homes and in our bags. And, of course, there will be lots of games to play.

Here’s all of our coverage of the launch.

• Look inside the Nintendo Switch 2 with the console’s first teardown
• What’s the first thing you’re doing with your Switch 2?
• No Man’s Sky is getting a Switch 2 update in time for launch
• Pokémon Violet and Scarlet’s Switch 2 update is as good as it looks
• Mario Kart World’s designers had to rethink everything to make it open world