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If the original’s cheeky replication of “Star Trek” was its defining aesthetic, this one’s faster-paced, action-meets-farce peril spurred a visual language crafted from gaming.

Nintendo has long prioritized play as an everyone-can-do-it lifestyle rather than pure gaming horsepower, and the Switch 2 is an evolution of that philosophy.

But Japanese video gaming company Nintendo announced on Friday that it is delaying pre-orders of its Switch 2 console, saying it needs to "assess the potential impact of tariffs."

Japan, where the gaming company is based, has been hit with a 24% tariff - a cost which the firm must swallow or pass onto consumers.

It follows criticism by former England manager Sir Gareth Southgate, who said he feared young men were "falling into unhealthy alternatives like gaming".