The Swap 2 Proves Nintendo By no means Misses On Music

Nintendo is a variety of issues to lots of people for lots of various causes. Mario helps, and so do the host of different iconic first-party titles and the movies, toys, theme parks, and countless different IP offshoots they spawned. However past how Nintendo appears and performs and sells, it additionally has a sound, and due to the Swap 2, that sound is simply as iconic as ever this time round. Significantly, although, hearken to the Mario Kart World soundtrack, proper now.

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— Adri💫 (@AdriWindGB) June 10, 2025

There’s a variety of newfangled Swap 2 music I like already, however Mario Kart actually hits house for me. As a listener of some prog rock out of Japan—Masayoshi Takanaka, I’m talking to you straight—this looks like some sort of lab-grown earworm that I’d let take up residence in my mind rent-free. No utilities or dealer charges, both. You possibly can have the entire place; there’s not a lot happening in there outdoors of some ineffective information about Jim Henson’s Labyrinth and Maslow’s hierarchy, anyway.

For Nintendo, it’s all the time been concerning the particulars, and the Swap 2 isn’t any completely different. The video games are the video games—they’re the rationale for Nintendo’s existence—however the Nintendo whimsy doesn’t simply occur within the gameplay; it’s within the blips and beeps and absolute bops that sound engineers and composers have been churning out for many years now. The Swap 2, whereas nonetheless recent out of the oven or womb or volcano—wherever Nintendo conjures its highly effective gaming magic from—appears poised to provide us much more of the identical legendary music. For actual, some fans agree that even the Swap 2 Welcome Tour, Nintendo’s infuriatingly paid $10 tutorial, doesn’t miss on music.

New chill Nintendo Swap 2 music simply dropped. Why is Nintendo so good at making chill music pic.twitter.com/yDzPTG6k3Z

— Ray Wong (@raywongy) June 5, 2025

And it’s not simply within the video games; it’s within the menus, too. Organising a console sucks (belief me, we discovered that out the arduous method), however Nintendo’s crew of music magicians positively makes it rather less annoying. In contrast to Mario Kart’s virtuosic, prog-influenced jazz-funk guitar music, we get some calm, playful synth dub. That’s a brand new style I simply coined, and even when it’s not actual, it’s the proper degree of chill for the event—that event being the conclusion that your failed system-to-system switch simply deleted all of your Mario Kart saves. However rattling, this track wrecks.

I do know I sound like a Nintendo shill proper now, however what… I’ll personal that. There’s lots to be grumpy about—the Swap 2 is dear, the video games are costly, Virtual Game Cards are nightmarish, and third-party controllers and gen-one Swap controllers don’t freaking wake the console due to using a unique “protocol.” No console launch is ideal, nevertheless it’s clear to me that there are just a few issues that Nintendo won’t ever miss on, and music is one in all them. That being stated, should you’re studying this, Nintendo, it is advisable add music again into the eShop proper now. I don’t even care if it makes the entire thing stutter, like I simply tried to load Cyberpunk 2077 on a desktop working Home windows XP, I’ll fortunately glitch out mid-purchase to listen to a track even half pretty much as good as Aquatic Ambience.