Episode 117 - We got a Nintendo Switch 2 and now we're happy

Technology, in a weird way, is at its best when it makes us feel like a kid again…

It’s hard to ignore the swell of emotion and nostalgia… as gamers, nerds, or whatever you want to call us… when you fire up a classic that takes you right back to sitting precious too-few inches in front of a TV playing countless hours until being told for the twelfth time that it was absolutely time to go to bed…

So it comes as no shock, based on nothing else than how many times we’ve talked about it in the years that we’ve been waiting for this very day, that it was suddenly 1991 again the moment a relatively little, red blue and black box with “Nintendo Switch 2” emblazoned on the side was (honestly unexpectedly) in our very presence…

Were the preorders nothing short of a debacle? I refer you to a previous episode…

Was a single retailer effective in communicating how one was supposed to even try to exchange currency for one of these seemingly-gold-plated marvels? It was so bad it was almost by design…

Did all of that disappear into a puff of digital smoke the moment I hit a two-second-launch perfectly on my first outing in Mario Kart World? Let’s just say my eyes hurt a little as I write this, and it’s not hard to figure out why…

Technology is special in so many ways, but one of its most foundational is its ability to entertain, inspire, and frankly distract us at moments we maybe need it most. 

Now, do excuse me for a moment, I think I just figured out a shortcut on this circuit I’ve been stuck on and I’ve got characters to unlock…