Paul Rudd Hypes Nintendo Switch 2 With Playful Throwback to Infamous 90s SNES Commercial

Nintendo has tapped histrion Paul Rudd to hype up the Nintendo Switch 2 successful a marque caller commercialized that pays corny-yet-adorable homage to a beloved 90s commercialized helium did for the Super Nintendo.

The archetypal commercial, which aired successful 1991, shows Rudd successful a agelong achromatic jacket, beaded necklace, and really, uh, interesting hairdo stomping up to a drive-in movie theater, SNES successful hand. He hooks it up and begins playing a fig of favorites connected the large screen: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, F-Zero, Sim City, and others, portion a assemblage of funny onlookers forms astir him. The commercialized ends with the celebrated SNES slogan: "Now you're playing with power."

Paul Rudd, from the caller Nintendo Switch 2 commercial

In the caller Nintendo Switch 2 commercial, Rudd is 34 years older but someway looks...kind of the same? He's inactive got the coat, and the necklace, and the hair. But this time, helium stomps into a surviving country and hooks up a Nintendo Switch 2 to play with comedians Joe Lo Truglio and Jordan Carlos, arsenic good arsenic a kid that calls him "Uncle Paul." They play Mario Kart World utilizing the system's caller GameChat feature, and the others tease Rudd astir his get-up and wacky 90s advertisement attitude, which includes the commercialized lampshading a fog instrumentality and a instrumentality blowing to marque the ambiance look arsenic aggravated arsenic it did successful the 90s. The commercialized concludes with Rudd voicing that alternatively of playing with power, "Now we're playing together." The full happening is cheesy arsenic heck, but goes on with the spot and acknowledges the goofiness of the archetypal commercialized to what amounts to a beauteous cute effect.

IGN had the pleasance of sitting down with Rudd to speech to him astir his acquisition shooting a follow-up Nintendo hardware commercialized implicit 30 years aft his archetypal ace astatine it. During our chat, we learned that Rudd suspects helium was wearing his ain beaded necklace successful the archetypal commercial, and that helium kept playing Mario Kart World connected the acceptable successful betwixt takes. Unfortunately, helium says, they didn't fto him instrumentality a Nintendo Switch 2 location with him. You tin ticker our afloat interrogation close here:

Just this week, we got connection that Nintendo Switch 2 preorders are backmost connected for April 24 this time, and the terms is inactive $450, though accessory prices person gone up owed to the interaction of tariffs successful the United States. We've got everything you request to cognize astir wherever and however to get 1 of those sweet, saccharine pre-orders successful our guide.

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