The Highly-Anticipated Release of the Next Nintendo Switch Is Still a While Away. Are You Ready to Wait?

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The latest information on the Nintendo Switch 2

In recent months, rumors about the next console of Nintendo explode on social networks, and it is sometimes difficult to separate the true from the false. However, a few days ago it was Shuntaro Furukawa himself who spoke on Twitter (or X) to make an announcement which should finally silence the noise in the corridors. In his message, the president of Nintendo has warned that what it calls the “successor to the Nintendo Switch” will be announced during the current fiscal year, which ends on March 31, 2025. He specifies, however, that no announcement will be made to the Nintendo Direct of June 2024, we will therefore have to wait longer to find out more.

This is Furukawa, president of Nintendo. We will make an announcement regarding the successor to Nintendo Switch during this fiscal year. It will have been over nine years since we announced the Nintendo Switch in March 2015. We will be holding a Nintendo Direct in June regarding upcoming Nintendo Switch games for the second half of 2024, but be aware that there will be no mention of the Nintendo Switch successor during this presentation.

While many thought this fiscal year would include not only the announcement of the “Nintendo Switch 2” but also (and above all) its release, new information on this subject has recently come to light, and it may not please everyone…

A release date that is gradually moving away

It was during a question-and-answer session with investors that Shuntaro Furukawa has made new revelations about the successor to the Nintendo Switch. According to the translation of GamesIndustry.bizthe current fiscal year forecast only includes sales for the Nintendo Switchand not those of the Nintendo Switch 2. According to Furukawathe Switch should still sell more than 13.5 million copies this year, but he makes it clear that these figures do not concern the next console, which would therefore not be released during the 2024 fiscal year.

According to the words of Furukawano release window has been decided at the moment, which means that the Nintendo Switch 2 could come out anytime after April 1, 2025, and not a day before. In other words, the rumors that surfaced in February 2024 about a potential delay would ultimately be true, since they placed the release of the next-gen console in March 2025 at the earliest. We will therefore probably have to wait more than a year before the release of the successor to the Nintendo Switch… But based on the latest information about its components, it might just be worth the wait!