The Nintendo at this time! app has up to date with a brand new Switch 2 video that exhibits the mysterious C button up shut, in addition to new music and a sound impact for when it’s pressed.
The information app up to date for individuals who have now crossed over into April 2, the day Nintendo’s Switch 2 Direct will probably be launched, and so there’s a corresponding replace within the app exhibiting the enjoyable begins “Today!”
The C button is the main target this time. We hear new music and a sound impact for when the button is pressed. This seemingly innocuous, brief clip has already despatched Nintendo followers into hypothesis mode, with some saying the music might be the Switch 2 menu music, and the sound impact might be the sound impact customers will hear once they press the C button itself.
And some at the moment are speculating that this jingle sounds just like the sort of noise you’d hear when you had been activating a microphone for voice chat.
Nintendo has teased Switch 2’s new C button forward of the Direct tomorrow pic.twitter.com/DAKZXPJnGC
— Nintendo Everything (@NinEverything) April 1, 2025
There’s loads of Switch 2 hypothesis in the intervening time, as you’d count on given the curiosity within the next-gen console and the way shut we’re to its full reveal. Earlier at this time, a brand new Federal Communications Commission (FCC) submitting probably pointed to an improve for the unannounced Switch 2 Pro Controller.
The C button stays one of many high unanswered questions on Switch 2, however we additionally don’t know how highly effective the console is, or what its new ports are used for.
The Nintendo Direct may also, hopefully, give us the complete Switch 2 launch lineup of video games in addition to a launch date, which is predicted to be in some unspecified time in the future between June and September 2025. Fingers crossed Nintendo pronounces the Switch 2 worth, which analysts predict will probably be $400.
We are beginning to construct an image of what to anticipate on Switch 2 by way of video games. There is an extended record of rumored third-party titles coming to the console, and in an interview with IGN, Civilization 7 developer Firaxis referred to as Switch 2’s obvious Joy-Con mouse mode “positively intriguing.” French online game and equipment maker Nacon, writer of the likes of Greedfall 2, Test Drive Unlimited, and RoboCop: Rogue City, has stated it has Switch 2 video games able to go. The long-awaited Hollow Knight: Silksong can also be rumored to be set for Switch 2. EA has stated Madden, FC, and The Sims would all be an ideal match for Switch 2.
Last week’s Nintendo Direct announcement of a new Virtual Game Cards characteristic for sharing video games between techniques additionally raised some questions, most notably one concerning the Nintendo Switch 2, due to a fantastic print footnote on an official Nintendo webpage.
The Switch 2 Direct airs tomorrow at 6am PT / 9am ET, and we now realize it’ll final round 60 minutes.
Meanwhile, Nintendo confirmed a Nintendo Treehouse: Live | Nintendo Switch 2 presentation that includes hands-on gameplay of Nintendo Switch 2 video games on April 3 and April 4 at 7am PT every day.
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