Nintendo announced that it sold more than 3.5 million Switch 2 consoles less than a week after its June 5 release. That feat makes it the fastest-selling Nintendo game system of all time.

The Nintendo Switch 2 has only recently launched — and is very tough to buy — but rumors of an OLED model have been surfacing, and alleged prototype frames have now allegedly appeared online.

Nintendo's other first-party launch title, the $10 Switch 2 Welcome Tour, is a tedious affair that offers a few diverting minigames amid dull slideshows and quizzes full of corny PR speak.

It doesn't stop there as X user SwitchTools explained they used a MIG Switch with ROM dumps of their own games and they were also banned from Nintendo Switch Online services at the console level ...

A version of this article appears in print on June 14, 2025, Section B, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Nintendo’s New Switch: Bigger, Better and Costlier.