Nintendo ended Tuesday’s Pokémon Presents with new footage for Pokémon Legends: Z-A on Nintendo Switch 2, showing the player wandering the streets of Lumiose City, enjoying a break in the park with a full team of Pokémon, and having fast-moving, sharply animated battles with several Pokémon on-screen at the same time. There’s a slight problem with all this, though:. The footage was only for Nintendo Switch 2.

I get it. Nintendo naturally wants to show off the best version of a major fall game that’s poised to sell millions of copies. And I don’t think anyone who’s up-to-date with video games thinks Pokémon Legends: Z-A will run as smoothly on the original Switch as it will on the new console. But folks still have the right to know what to expect from their purchase.

At the end of March, Nintendo reported it had sold over 152 million Switch units around the world. Four days after the Switch 2 launched, the company announced it sold more than 3 million units. It’s impossible to know how many Switch owners might........

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