August 7, 2025 – Nintendo Switch 2 Has Arrived! I Won the Lottery!
ep.174 August 7, 2025 – Nintendo Switch 2 Has Arrived! I Won the Lottery!
Publication date: August 7, 2025, 21:05
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Preface
I won on Amazon!
And not with Panda’s account—the one I use to shop three times a month, spending about 200,000 yen a year.
No, I won with my daughter’s account, where she’s never shopped even once!
But when I asked ChatGPT, you said that happens often.
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Main Text
August 7, 2025
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“Waiting for the Console of the Future”
—Nintendo Switch 2 and Panda’s Time Travel—
The Nintendo Switch 2 has finally arrived at our home.
And not just any set—the Mario Kart World Set.
When I got the notification, “Congratulations, you’ve won,” I honestly felt like crying.
When was the last time a game console made me tear up like that? Decades ago, maybe.
But then I found out—the Mario Kart download takes over 40 minutes.
So while I was restless waiting, I decided to sit down and write this essay.
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Donkey Kong Bananza
The first game I tried was Donkey Kong.
The graphics are stunning. Switch 2’s power really shows itself.
But… it makes me dizzy. Really dizzy.
Even just watching my daughter play makes my head spin.
And it takes me back to when I was a kid.
My cousin once gave me a Donkey Kong “Game & Watch.”
A tiny black-and-white screen. Beep-beep electronic sounds.
I was terrible at it. Always falling, always game over.
I told this story to a staff member at my workplace.
She asked: “Game & Watch? Do you mean Tamagotchi? Game Boy?”
She’s 34 years old.
Well… of course she wasn’t even born back then (lol).
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Childhood Without Games
To be honest, Panda’s family was poor back then.
We never had a Famicom, Super Famicom, Game Boy, or Game Boy Advance. Not a single one.
But strangely, I never felt “I want it!”
Because what Panda wanted was the game of the future.
Something with more beautiful graphics, more freedom, more like a dream.
The games of my actual childhood didn’t stir my heart.
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Future Memories, Right Here
The moment I booted up Switch 2, I felt it.
“Ah, I’ve finally caught up.”
Maybe Panda really did come from the future.
As a child, I already knew about future games.
Only the memory kept following behind.
Now, at last, memory and reality matched.
Mario started to run, Donkey threw bananas, and Panda laughed.
And that’s enough, isn’t it?
Just being able to laugh over a conversation about games—
that alone feels precious.
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Still Waiting for Tomodachi Collection 2
What Panda is really waiting for is “Tomodachi Collection 2.”
No motion sickness guaranteed (lol).
It already feels like it’ll be another masterpiece, one that makes me want to write songs again.
Switch 2, thank you.
Thank you for fulfilling a dream of the future.
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Afterword
Please—make Momotaro Dentetsu with an option to turn off the Poverty God. Add an easy mode!
And please make a haunted house game for Switch 2 as well.
By the way, Mario Kart started up the moment my daughter went to the bathroom.
