Coming This Week to Digital Foundry (Week 14, 2025) (Patreon)

Hi everyone and welcome to the slightly late update for Week 14, 2025 here on Digital Foundry... and it's going to be a big one. So, let's talk Switch 2. Firstly, to answer the likely questions pre-emptively: have we had secret early access? No, we have not. Are we in line to see the system in a hands-on capacity later in the week like some press? No, we are not, though we are quite amused at some of the outlets Nintendo did choose. We will get a hands-on opportunity but not quite yet.

So the weekly update on who is doing what is going to change quite significantly, based on both the content of tomorrow's Nintendo Direct - and also, perhaps, on the content of the Treehouse follow-ups where we should get to see a lot more in the way of title specific gameplay. What we hope to do is to get to grips quickly with the quality of the games and to get that info to you as quickly as we can.

The #content line-up - such as it is - looks like this:

Rich (ie me) has been off sick for a bit and also tending to poorly elderly parents, but I should be available for the DF Direct on the Nintendo Direct! And if the old RTX 2050 laptop Switch 2 GPU simulator is required, well, there it is on the desk next to me. At some point I'm also expecting a RTX 5060 Ti sample but it's not here yet. I do still have AyaNeo 3 of course.

John has just completed his excellent Doom: The Dark Ages preview, available now. He will be participating in the Switch 2 stuff before heading off on vacation at the end of the week.

Alex in combination with Mohammed is working on our review for The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered on PC. Not sure we'll be there day one, but we will be there with some very interesting #content. RT-spotting on Switch 2? Quite possibly!

Tom will be handing in our South of Midnight review coverage and, of course, will be following up on the Switch 2 stuff like the rest of us.

Oliver is the man handling the Switch 2 Direct, which we aim to get out as quickly as possible after tomorrow's reveal. He'll then reacting to whatever further content is revealed but also handling DF Direct Weekly #208.

You may think that Will is exempt from Switch 2 mania - BUT NO. He will be taking all of our outputs and ensuring that the written word audience on Eurogamer is taken care of.

Tomorrow, we will be putting up a Call For Questions on the Switch 2 reveal, and that'll be tackled in the main Direct we're planning, but you'll need to be quick. We'll be 'taping' (as Oliver likes to put it!) an hour or so after the reveal.

Lots going on then - it should be a great week!