New Nintendo Switch 2 Commercial Starring Paul Rudd Is A Hilariously Self-Aware Throwback To The SNES

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Nintendo has just released its Western commercial for the Nintendo Switch 2, and it’s one big callback to the 1990s. The Nintendo Switch 2 was officially announced earlier this year and will be hitting shelves on June 5, much sooner than was anticipated. To celebrate the release and promote the upcoming console, Nintendo is traveling back in time to 1991.

The Nintendo Switch 2 commercial recreates the original 1991 ad for the Super Nintendo console, and it even recasts Paul Rudd in the lead role. The homage to the SNES ad is wonderfully nostalgic and even uses the same sound effects and music, up until the moment Rudd connects to the system’s social features and reality comes crashing back to the present.