Nintendo is holding a Treehouse event at 10AM ET, where it will show off gameplay of Mario Kart World, Donkey Kong Bananza, and more. You can also check out our hands-on experience with the chaotic new racing game.
In an interview, Switch 2 producer Kouichi Kawamoto revealed why Nintendo stopped short of giving the console a name reminiscent of the Super NES:
Super NES, which came out after the NES, couldn’t play NES games. Since Switch 2 can play Switch games, it didn’t feel right to use the same naming convention as Super NES. Switch 2 is a new system with improved performance, but we’d like players who get their hands on it not to focus on the specs, but rather to think of it as the latest system developed by Nintendo.
Some Switch 2 games will be on Game-Key Cards, which don’t come with an actual game on it:
Instead, the game-key card is your ‘key’ to downloading the full game to your system via the internet. After it’s downloaded, you can play the game by inserting the game-key card into your system and starting it up like a standard physical game card.
It sounds like this system might replace the physical Switch games that come with a code inside instead of an actual cartridge.
