After many months, if not years, of leaks and speculation, it’s finally official: Nintendo has announced and fully revealed its next console. It’s called Nintendo Switch 2, and as the name implies, it’s a very similar design to the Switch — a hybrid handheld console with detachable controllers that can...
Switch 2 Nintendo Direct: The news, predictions, and what to expect of the big event
Big publishers who haven’t been able to bring their biggest multiplatform games to the Nintendo Switch due to its relative lack of processing power are racing to release ports of these titles on the more powerful Switch 2. We got our first indication of this during Wednesday’s Switch 2 Direct,...
How to beat Scorpion in Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 2
Scorpion, from the fighting game series Mortal Kombat, has entered Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 2 as a boss.Depending on where Scorpion spawns, he can be extremely difficult to fight as you’ll need to deal with the terrain and other incoming players. However, once you learn how to deal with his...
Playing Nintendo’s greatest triumph on its biggest failure
As Shigeru Miyamoto never actually said, “A delayed game is eventually good, but a bad game is forever bad.” This sliding-doors concept gains an additional, poignant dimension when considering The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, because that game’s delay affected more than its quality. Originally planned for release...
Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders to start in early April, leaks say
Pre-orders for the Nintendo Switch 2 will open on Wednesday, April 2 — if you believe retailer Best Buy Canada, which announced that pre-order date in a blog post (and then quickly pulled it) on Thursday. A new report from Insider Gaming, citing documents from an unnamed “large U.S. retailer,”...
The Nintendo Switch traumatized my family and I cannot forgive it
Halfway through October 2021, my youngest daughter, just 7 years old at the time, came to me with concern in her eyes. The Nintendo Switch wouldn’t turn on, and its last few moments of operation were concerning. Something about a download that had just completed, she said, and a button...
Palworld too ‘beefy’ for Switch, studio rep says, but Switch 2 ‘worth considering’
Palworld developer Pocketpair has one word on its mind, and it’s “beefy.”During a conversation with IGN at the recently concluded Game Developers Conference, communications director John Buckley said Palworld won’t be coming to Switch because the open-world, crafting-focused Pokémon-like is “a beefy game.” A potential Switch 2 release, however, is...
All 14 Assassin’s Creed games, ranked
Over the nearly two decades since the first entry, Assassin’s Creed has ballooned into a mixed-media franchise that includes at least seven spinoffs, nine novels, 11 comics, a Michael Fassbender film, an in-development TV show, and enough Pop! toys to fill a jam band. The brand is so ubiquitous, so...
A Nintendo game trend that looks like it will continue on Switch 2
This story was first published in Switchboard, a newsletter from Polygon that delivers all the latest Switch 2 news, reporting, and rumors directly to your inbox. Sign up here to get it weekly.Former Nintendo president Satoru Iwata passed before the Switch launched in 2017, but he left the company with...
Xenoblade Chronicles X might run at 60 fps on Switch 2
A programmer poking around the newly released Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition on Switch has discovered references to an unused 60 fps mode in the game’s code, fueling speculation of a potential upgrade on Switch 2 when Nintendo’s next console rolls around later this year.Switch modder MasaGratoR shared a screenshot...