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Issue 272

Am I the only person on the planet who isn't massively excited about the Switch 2? It's a rhetorical question. I know I am. I don't know what has happened with this current generation of consoles, but they feel like they're pigeon-stepping forwards. I've got a PS5 - someone very kind gifted it to me - but there's still so little to play on it that really justifies the hardware.

- Paul Rose

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Aaaaand... I'm not yet seeing anything from the Switch 2 that is convincing me that I need to fork out hundreds of pounds to upgrade.

I used to get SO excited when new hardware was launched, and I don't think that was just the innocence of youth. Those generational leaps were really about the new types of games we'd be able to play on the new hardware - games that we'd never previously had access to. At least, not in our own homes.

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