Nintendo has introduced a June 5 launch date for its newest gaming console, the Change 2, which can introduce interactive chat and screenshare capabilities to attach players.
At its 60-minute Nintendo Direct presentation, the corporate revealed a extra vibrant show on the Change 2, a bigger display, and a number of other video games that can launch with the console.
Central to its up to date system is a brand new “C” button on its Pleasure-Con controller, which can launch a brand new “GameChat” function that lets you “communicate with friends and family while playing a game” and allows you to share your sport display with different gamers.
A built-in microphone will even permit you to chat with different players.
Maybe essentially the most up to date perform but for the Change 2 is the power to make use of the Pleasure-Con controllers like a pc mouse.
The developer displayed a number of methods to make use of the brand new perform in video games, equivalent to angling a membership in a golf sport.
Wednesday’s presentation led off with an prolonged take a look at a brand new Mario Kart sport that noticed in-game characters doing flips, tips, and rail grinds.
The developer additionally unveiled a brand new James Bond sport, dubbed Venture 007, revisiting a basic Nintendo 64 console hit revered by many first-person shooter sport followers.
The brand new console shall be backwards suitable — in a position to play bodily and digital Change video games — however customers might want to buy a brand new kind of SD reminiscence card for the Change 2.
The presentation revealed that ordinary SD playing cards won’t be suitable with the system, however knowledge from the unique Change may be transferred to the brand new console.
Nintendo plans to host “Switch 2 Experience” occasions in a number of international locations, the place players can get a hands-on expertise with the brand new system.
These occasions are deliberate for cities equivalent to Los Angeles, New York, London, and Paris starting this month.