After a long period of speculation and waiting, the Switch 2 is finally in the hands of users. After a quick update, those who have the system to hand are able to play a reasonable assortment of updated Switch titles alongside the system's big hitter Mario Kart World. That is, at least if you were sent a system running the proper retail firmware. Earlier today user AJ on the GBAtemp Discord server posted an unfortunate image of a brand new Switch 2. Instead of a new library of games however, all they're able to try out is a short list of tests intended for QA at the factory.

A short list of json files, these tests appear to cover aging, charging the battery, rebooting, and shutting down the system. Though a remarkably interesting thing to have on paper, this mix-up at the factory does unfortunately leave them with a system unable to really do much of anything. On a complete lapse of judgement I have in fact bought the system from them, and will hopefully have something of a follow up to this post next week.

Thanks to AJ for posting about this (and selling it to me!) and I hope their next system is a functional one.

Update:
The user has since refunded me and blocked me on Discord. I assume they got a better offer elsewhere, so we can only hope the person who ends up with it is happy to share details.

GBAtemp's Discord Server

 

[a_username_that_is_cool]

ooh shiny,,,,
skids be like: DOES THIS MEAN HOME BREW FOR SWITCH @@@22?!?no
but I love aging tests. I love when the age gets tested

 

[Skelletonike]

Just... How did this happen? >.>

 

[shaunj66]

Some little Vietnamese kid is going to get Nintendo Ninja'd

 

[a_username_that_is_cool]

Just... How did this happen? >.>

same way the Startup Disk Wiis got out into the wild; lazy employee not checking for the update properly

 

[BlusterBong]

I highly doubt this will lead into anything since we can't really dump it right now (even more so since all it seems to be able to do is read json files, which you can't do too much with anyways), nor would we even be able to gleam much of any value since all you can do looks like just having the Aging tests done on loop and anything you can write for it will only work for any Switch 2 that just so happens to be in the same situation as this unit here.

 

[a_username_that_is_cool]

I highly doubt this will lead into anything since we can't really dump it right now (even more so since all it seems to be able to do is read json files, which you can't do too much with anyways), nor would we even be able to gleam much of any value since all you can do looks like just having the Aging tests done on loop and anything you can write for it will only work for any Switch 2 that just so happens to be in the same situation as this unit here.

we might get a 3dsque homebrew where you downgrade (somehow, maybe by editing the firmware to change fuse? but that would ruin the key. confusing) to this version to get homebrew, then re-upgrade to the latest version (or just Pre-Day1/Day1) to get homebrew on latest version.


unlikely but might happen.

 

[eduall]

what was that!!!??

 

[Moseii]

reminds me of the Wii startup disk

 

[Ettino]

what was that!!!??

That would be a Nintendo Switch 2™ QA unit.

 

[Rykin]

Bro needs to drop this on ebay and make some money.

 

[Moe87]

If Switch 2 gets hacked, so EVERYONE on this forum is going crazy and congratulate the accomplishment. Switch 2 sale will go up by 500% and most of customers are members of GBATemp.

Also, what next? OG Switch gets full hacking that allow members to replace the Horizon with Windows, so look at someone use Windows OS on Switch screen. It is painful surgery for OG Switch lol.

 

[Rhapsody]

Bro needs to drop this on ebay and make some money.

Me when I don't fully read the post before replying to it

 

[LoggerMan]

Someone send this to Gary Bowser in prison, let him cook.

 

[AngryCinnabon]

This is actually really neat.

 

[HideoKojima]

Get your Jig ready guys

 

[Lostbhoy]

I hope someone's poking around with that.... Don't reboot!

 

[Firestarter]

Someone send this to Gary Bowser in prison, let him cook.

Gary aint been in prison for quite some time, served his time.
Plus he wont touch anything Nintendo related, and has gone full retro

 

[Flame]

Let the games begin!

Nintendo be like: a snitch on a hacker gets a switch 2.

 

[DeadSkullzJr]

Time to run DOOM from a JSON file. Don't ask how, dark magic I guess.