The Nintendo Direct for the Nintendo Switch 2 will be taking place tomorrow, 2nd April at 2PM UK time, and Nintendo has now told us just how long the presentation will be.
It’ll be around 60 minutes, Nintendo states on social media, and you can watch it here:
That’s basically the whole story, but you might think it mildly interesting that Nintendo didn’t choose to use a different unit of measurement. They could, for example, have said it would be 3,600 seconds, got a little bit of fractional love in by saying it would be 1/24th of the day, or gone a little more obscure to tell you that the stream will be 0.00011408% of the whole year of 2025.
“Interestingly”, that’s shorter than the PlayStation 5 reveal stream in 2020, which came in at around 70 minutes, but it is six times longer than the PS5 Pro technical address.
I guess saying that it’s 60 minutes is pretty clear and to the point, it just doesn’t help with word counts and search engine rankings.
Alright, enough messing around. There’s an hour of time to fill for the Switch 2 reveal, and plenty of ground for Nintendo to cover properly, after the Nintendo Switch 2 hardware reveal arrived back in January. It was a pretty abstract and brief look at the console hardware, showing lots of points of comparison for how the design has changed compared to the original Switch. It showed the added USB-C port on the top of the console, the new kick stand design, the enlarged Joy-Con with new magnetic snap attachment mechanism. The console shares the same hybrid approach as the original Switch with detachable Joy-Con for docked or tabletop play.
However, it also hinted quite heavily at a long-rumoured mouse-like mode for the Joy-Con, and there’s a mysterious C-button on the right Joy-Con that everyone remains puzzled by. Expect those to be properly details, alongside some more technical expectations, such as if there’s 4K output and upscaling, how the game will handle backward compatibility, and if there’s paid Switch 2 game upgrades.
And once that’s out the way, it will have to be time for the games. From January, the real highlight was the tease of Mario Kart 9, and we expect to see a lot more of that during the Nintendo Direct, in addition to seeing some more first party games, and details on pricing and release date.
This is all leading into a string of hands-on preview events around the world through April and May, and we can’t wait to go hands on.
