[STEAM] Nintendo Switch 2: The Ars Technica review

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When Nintendo

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, the sheer novelty of the new hardware brought the company a lot of renewed attention. After the

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of

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, Nintendo exploited

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to create something of a minimum viable HD-capable system that could work as both a lightweight handheld and a slightly underpowered TV-based console. That unique combination, and Nintendo's

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, set the console apart from what the rest of the gaming market was offering at the time.

Eight years later, the Switch 2 launched into a transformed gaming hardware market that the original Switch played a large role in shaping, one full of portable gaming consoles that can optionally be connected to a TV. That includes full-featured handheld gaming PCs like

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and its

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, but also

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and

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on the cheaper end. Even

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is preparing to get in on the act, streamlining the Windows gaming experience for

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? Credit: Kyle Orland Those market changes make the Switch 2 a lot less of a novelty than its predecessor. As its name implies, it is essentially a direct sequel to the original Switch hardware, with improvements to the physical hardware and internal architecture. Rather than shaking things up with a new concept, Nintendo seems to be saying, "Hey, you liked the Switch? Here's the same thing, but moreso."

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