Nintendo hardware developers talk about designing the Switch 2

Nintendo showed off its Nintendo Switch 2 hardware and games to the press in New York City yesterday, and one of the rare parts of the event was a sit-down panel with the hardware designers.

The group included the tech leaders who were part of the Nintendo Direct video unveiling the details of the launch of the Switch 2, which will cost $450 and debut on June 5. They didn’t answer questions about why the console and the games cost so much — $80 for each Switch game (Trump’s tariffs may have something to do with it). But they did answer the questions the media threw them about the hardware.

The leaders included Kouichi Kawamoto, producer on Switch 2; Tetsuya Sasaki, technical director on Switch 2, and Takuhiro Dohta, director of Switch 2.

I asked them if they had an elegant solution for the emulation of the original Switch ...