Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

Arg, they make the screen look absolutely huge with that large front glass panel during most of the video and I was thinking to myself, nice! But then at the end they actually show how large the bezels are underneath the glass and it is quite disappointing. Someday we'll have modern smartphone like mini-bezels (a few mm at most) in our handheld gaming consoles, but I guess not yet.

Microbezels are aesthetically great but practically horrible.

Having some practical space to grab onto wins at the end of the day, we presumably use these things instead of having one sit looking happy on a bookshelf.

> Having some practical space to grab onto wins at the end of the day,

I guess I hold onto the controller parts on the sides, not the center component. It isn't a tablet.

It's a portable device, at some point or another I'm going to handle it without the side controllers. Having some place to grab the thing is basic ergonomics, much less something designed with kids in mind.

Where you touch it when not in use doesn't matter. You're not going to use it that way, because nothing uses the touchscreen for gameplay.

[edit] originally I said it didn't have a touchscreen, but I've been reminded that the original does actually have one and it's just never used by anything because ever requiring it in a game would be really dumb when the entire premise of the switch is that it's dockable.

Huh? It totally has a touch screen — it has to, for backward compatibility.

Sorry, you're right. I forgot because literally nothing supports it other than maybe wifi password entry and navigating some menus.