The Nintendo Switch 2 has changed Mii character creation, Polygon can confirm after going hands-on with the console. When creating new Mii avatars, players won’t be able to choose between male or female options like the Switch, but rather between two “styles.”
Mii characters are now genderless on Nintendo Switch 2
It’s a less rigid system than on the original Switch or Wii
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The new system offers players a generic avatars, with the option to customize the Mii. And if you’re wondering whether or not the Mii characters were redesigned, no, they weren’t. Instead, Mii look unchanged, carrying over the debut design from the Nintendo Wii.
While the genderless direction serves as a change for the Mii characters, Nintendo isn’t new to adopting this “select a style” language for gender preference.
In 2022, Splatoon 3 introduced the concept to the franchise, allowing players the freedom to style the Inklings with whatever clothes and hair excited them. Certain hairstyles were no longer locked to females and males, thus giving players more control over how they expressed themselves in Inkling customization and creation.
Two years before Splatoon 3, Animal Crossing: New Horizons was released with similar options, opting to refer to gender as “styles.” Even before this, 2012’s Animal Crossing: New Leaf gave players the choice to dress gender neutral — the recent Mii change appears to be just an extension of that.
Nintendo Switch 2 launches on June 5, 2025.
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