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The Kit & Krysta Podcast

174: What Did Nintendo Learn from the Record Breaking Switch 2 Launch?

The Kit & Krysta Podcast

The Kit & Krysta Podcast

Leisure, Video Games, Technology, Society & Culture

4.7545 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 151 minutes

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Hello and welcome to episode 174 of the Kit & Krysta Podcast! We are officially past the launch weekend for Nintendo Switch 2 and we wanted to dig into an interesting topic about the lessons Nintendo learned from this launch. This is something we know Nintendo is discussing right now inside the company as they examine what went wrong and right with this launch. They did some things well but they also had some challenging moments too but most importantly, did Nintendo learn some "wrong" lessons? We discuss it all here. Also in this episode, we have some fresh thoughts about Switch 2 after spending a whole weekend with the system and we are playing A TON of new Switch 2 games (over 10 wow!). We wrap up a beefy episode with questions from our Patreon subscribers. All this and so much is coming right up!

0:00 - Launch weekend for Switch 2 is behind us!
12:22 - What lessons did Nintendo learn from the Switch 2 launch?
49:29 - Our first weekend with Switch 2 - new thoughts
1:05:25 - Games we are playing (Mario Kart World,Deltarune, Cyberpunk 2077, Hitman World of Assassination, Rune Factory Guardians of Azuma, Fast Fusion, Street Fighter 6, Kunitsu Gami, Welcome Tour)
1:45:41 - News news news (Xbox Showcase, Summer Game Fest, Peach/Toad voice actor, Zelda movie delay)
2:09:54 - Questions from our Patreon subscribers

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0:00.0

Today with Nintendo Switch 2 looking like it's a big success, today we wanted to take a closer look at what lessons did Nintendo actually learn from this launch.

0:20.0

And are they actually the right things to learn?

0:22.6

It might not be for the consumer, for the...

0:24.6

Great for them, maybe not so...

0:25.6

For the people like us.

0:26.6

But yes, this is a conversation that's happening at Nintendo right now

0:30.6

after the first weekend of launch that, by all indications,

0:33.6

seems to be a smashing success, is what did we learn, how did things go, what can we apply to the future? So we're going to be going through success is what did we learn,

0:40.5

how did things go, what can we apply to the future?

0:43.4

So we're going to be going through some of those lessons in a little bit.

0:45.8

They have moved on to a different kind of reports now.

0:48.4

Yes, a new phase of reporting.

0:51.5

Yes, the reporting continues, but it's a new phase.

0:52.6

The next generation.

0:53.7

Wow. Totally, totally. Oh, my goodness. We also have more to talk about with us having our first big weekend of the Switch 2. We have so many games. How many games? We have like over 10 games or something. The list of games continues to grow. Yes. You have some gripes that we didn't have a chance that had not surfaced. Yes.

1:10.9

I have to eat some crow about something that I said I absolutely wouldn't do, that I absolutely did.

1:16.5

I'll tell you about that as well.

1:19.3

Oh, no.

1:19.9

So we're going to be getting all of that in a little bit.

1:22.1

But people have been banging on the door saying, what is the June spoiler cast? And we are here to reveal that it is Delta Rune. I was going to say, we should tell people that's a welcome tour. But it isn't. No, it's Delta Rune. There's been an ongoing joke in our Kitt and Krista community. Like, what is the June spoiler cast? Because it's the first one in the post-Switch 2 era. Yes. And we've been kind of, there's a lot of options, you know. But yes, it is Delta Rune. This is the perfect game for a spoiler cast for a story. Yeah. So I'm going to read. So I had already play chapters 1 and 2. Yes. I'm replaying them now. Oh, okay. And just kind of doing the whole playthrough one through four. That's a good idea. Just so I can get like the full, you know, like emotional impact. Yeah, you got to remember what happens. Of all of Delta Room. And I did start that game this weekend. I haven't started yet.

2:18.3

I need to start.

2:19.3

And I really want to talk about it, the games were playing because I just, I fell in love with Delta Room. Let me just tell you. Yes, yes, good. All right, we'll talk about that later. Yes. I had, you made fun with me for saying this. I was like, I just want to make sure that Delta, the new chapters are not like 40 hours long.

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