When Nintendo launched the Switch in 2017, the sheer novelty of the new hardware brought the company a lot of renewed attention. After the market disaster of the Wii U's homebound "second screen" tablet,

We went from anxiously waiting for the Nintendo Switch 2 launch this month to the console now being out for over a week. While Nintendo Switch 2 restocks haven’t exactly been hard to come by, 3.5 million units have already been sold. The console is a hit, and like those millions of people, I’ve been spending time with Nintendo’s latest system.

The Nintendo Switch 2 wants to do a lot better than its predecessor and is focussing on evolution rather than revolution. But is the new hardware convincing? We put it to the test.