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You’ll be able to playElden RingandCyberpunk 2077on the Switch 2.
Surely the kind of thing you might lead with, or at least put right near the start?
Aren’t the other guys the ones who spend time talking about HDR visuals?
Is it Nintendo to spend that much time talking about SD cards or the new fan?
That third-party reel towards the end was one DoorDash namecheck away from being a Geoff Keighley production.
On balance, I don’t think that’s the case.
It’s what the C Button does.
It’s audio and video chat.
But it’s all done in a very Nintendo way.
But I share a house with someone who uses technology - and games - in a very different way.
Someone who sees video chats and online chat of all kinds as part of their everyday reality.
This is who Nintendo is thinking of.
To her, and her school friends, games are social spaces, an extension of the playground chat.
They chat at school.
They chat on the bus home from school.
And then they get home and they continue to chat in Fortnite or Among Us or Minecraft.
Are they chatting about the games?
Sometimes, but most often they’re just chatting about anything.
This is what that C Button is all about.
You’re playing games together, so chat makes sense.
What about you lot?
What are you doing now?
Fold in Mario Kart World, though, and it becomes even more interesting.
What’s everyone else you’re playing with going to be doing?
Turns out they’ll be doing their own stuff, connected to you but not connected via GameChat.
The Switch 2 is weaponising aimless free time, in the same way that Twitch or Discord does.
All kinds of people use games as spaces to meet up in.
Maybe Nintendo hasn’t lost its nerve after all.
