180: How Nintendo Can Make Switch 2’s Next Phase A Success
The Kit & Krysta Podcast
The Kit & Krysta Podcast
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🗓️ 24 July 2025
⏱️ 123 minutes
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Hello and welcome to episode 180 of the Kit & Krysta Podcast! Today we wanted to talk about how Nintendo Switch 2 is about to enter into a new phase now that the system has launched and its big two first games are out. What will Nintendo be focused on in this new phase and what can we expect? We also dig into Donkey Kong Bananza, we've been playing SO much and we have some interesting news nuggets about who is actually playing Nintendo games. We wrap it all up with questions from our awesome Patreon community. All this and much more is coming right up!
0:00 - Launch phase for Switch 2 is over!
14:06 - What's next for Nintendo Switch 2? We're entering a new phase!
58:01 - Games we are playing (BIG Donkey Kong impressions)
1:25:11 - News News News (Pokemon news, player data on big games)
1:38:59 - Questions from our Patreon community
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| 0:00.0 | Today, now that Mario Kart and Dauphicon Bonanza are in the world. |
| 0:14.0 | Out the door. |
| 0:15.0 | Out the door. |
| 0:16.0 | Nintendo is now moving into the next phase of Switch 2. |
| 0:21.6 | What does that mean? |
| 0:22.8 | What's happening next? |
| 0:24.2 | We're going to talk about it today. |
| 0:25.1 | Wow. |
| 0:30.9 | It's true that the way Nintendo kind of looks at its year and its slate of things that are upcoming, |
| 0:33.4 | it does break things into these phases where it's like, what are the chunks of games and activities that we have that make sense? |
| 0:38.2 | And I think now with these two games out, the, quote, launch has passed. |
| 0:42.9 | Yeah, launch phase is done. |
| 0:44.1 | And we're moving into something else. |
| 0:45.2 | So we're going to talk about what that is, what are the games included, what should we expect? |
| 0:48.5 | Yes, exactly. |
| 0:49.4 | It does change a bit in terms of Nintendo's strategy and how they're thinking about their marketing and what |
| 0:55.8 | games they put in each phase. It's very strategic how it's all done. So it is exciting that we're |
| 1:02.3 | moving right along from sort of the big launch of Switch 2 into something a bit different. And |
| 1:08.4 | then soon enough we'll be in an even different phase yeah so |
| 1:10.9 | there you go let's talk about it is very exciting we have been busy this morning though already |
| 1:16.7 | oh yes we woke up bright and early to record a fun reaction to the Pokemon presents we did not wake up |
| 1:23.0 | at 6 a.m no because we knew it was going to be kind of mid, honestly. I think that was the right call. |
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