While the company is known for making bold decisions in its consoles, it has opted to play a little safer with the Nintendo Switch 2. Though there are a couple of new features, for the most part the Switch 2 is a more powerful Switch, and that's not a bad thing.

With the exception of shorter battery life, the Nintendo Switch 2 improves upon the original in nearly every way, with a bigger screen, sharper graphics, and smarter Joy-Con controllers.

When Nintendo launched the Switch in 2017, the sheer novelty of the new hardware brought the company a lot of renewed attention. After the market disaster of the Wii U's homebound "second screen" tablet,