TNW 390: Nintendo Switch 2: Initial Impressions - Is the Switch 2 a Must-Buy?
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 5 June 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Amanda Silberling is joining Mikah Sargent this week on Tech News Weekly! Initial hands-on impressions with the Nintendo Switch 2. Reddit sues Anthropic. Amazon will be testing humanoid robots to deliver packages. And what could be announced at WWDC25.
- Scott Stein of CNET is staying busy as he joins the show to share his hands-on impressions of Nintendo's Switch 2 console, Mario Kart World, and its new features.
- Amanda talks about Reddit suing the artificial intelligence company Anthropic for allegedly not paying for its services without a proper licensing agreement.
- You may receive your Amazon packages from robots in the future, as Mikah shares how the company prepares to test humanoid robots for delivering packages.
- And Christopher Lawley of youtube.com/@ChrisLawley joins Mikah to discuss what Apple may unveil at its Worldwide Developers Conference on June 9th.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Amanda Silberling
Guests: Scott Stein and Christopher Lawley
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, Scott Stein of CNET got a chance to try out the Nintendo Switch 2. |
| 0:06.0 | He shares his first thoughts on the device after playing a whole heck of a lot of Mario Kart World. |
| 0:11.0 | Then Amanda Silverling of TechCrunch stops by to talk about Reddit suing Anthropic for scraping a bunch of data. |
| 0:18.0 | Afterward, we talk about how Amazon is working toward bringing |
| 0:21.5 | humanoid robots to package delivery before we round things out with Christopher Lawley, |
| 0:27.0 | tech YouTuber, who will be at WWDC and gives us a preview of Apple's yearly developer |
| 0:33.0 | conference. All of that coming up on Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:38.8 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:40.4 | From people you trust. |
| 0:43.0 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:46.5 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 390, with Amanda Silverling and me, Micah Sargent, recorded Thursday, June 5th, 2025. |
| 0:56.7 | Nintendo Switch 2, Initial Impressions. |
| 1:00.9 | Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show where every week we talk to and about the people making and breaking the tech news. |
| 1:08.0 | We're kicking things off a little differently this week because we are kicking |
| 1:12.0 | things off with an interview. Joining me to talk about some time spent with the Switch 2 is Scott |
| 1:20.4 | Stein of CNET. Welcome back to the show, Scott. Hey, thanks a lot. Thanks for having me again. |
| 1:25.5 | Yeah, thank you for being here. I know you are being asked by everyone across the world about your impressions and thoughts about the Switch 2. |
| 1:33.3 | So I am honored that you chose to take some time to join us today. |
| 1:37.3 | You know, to kick things off, you, in writing this piece, talk a lot about Mario Kart World, as this was kind of the hands-on you |
| 1:45.6 | got to do, spend hours with it, hands-on time with the Switch 2 itself. For listeners who have yet to |
| 1:51.8 | catch up, can you talk about the key takeaways about what is new in this generation? What makes |
| 1:57.1 | it the Switch 2 as opposed to the Switch? Yeah, so they did a lot of Under the Hood stuff, which is different. |
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