While rumors had been floating about rampantly as to the future plans of Nintendo, the President of the company, Shuntaro Furukawa, made a brief statement confirming that Nintendo is indeed working on a successor to the Nintendo Switch. Capping off Nintendo's quarterly financial report was an announcement that the unveiling of Nintendo's follow-up to the Switch would happen before the end of this fiscal year (March 2025). In the same message, Furukawa also announced that a Nintendo Direct is on the way sometime in June--though it will focus solely on latter-half 2024 Nintendo Switch titles, and will not feature any information regarding the successor system.

Current rumor reports state that a "Nintendo Switch 2" system was scheduled to be released around holiday 2024, though the hardware was delayed internally, to make sure that the upcoming system had as many quality launch titles as possible. Bloomberg has reported that Nintendo has been supplied with a notable amount of 8-inch Foxconn LCD screens, implying that the new Nintendo hardware may be very similar to the Nintendo Switch.

This is Furukawa, President of Nintendo. We will make an announcement about the successor to Nintendo Switch within this fiscal year. It will have been over nine years since we announced the existence of Nintendo Switch back in March 2015. We will be holding a Nintendo Direct…

— 任天堂株式会社（企業広報・IR） (@NintendoCoLtd) May 7, 2024

 

[Bladexdsl]

good everyone can shut the fuck up with the fake switch 2 posts now

 

[Quore]

Holy sh*t now they got the whole internet on their hands... again

I'm really curious if they gonna let this new console's info leak

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good everyone can shut the fuck up with the fake switch 2 posts now

You remembered me some people who said the new one will have a 4K screen on it

 

[Flame]

Who snitched on the switch 2? Snitches don't get switches.



But I'm so shocked. Shocked, I tell you... Well, not that shocked.

 

[solitonmedic]

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While rumors had been floating about rampantly as to the future plans of Nintendo, the President of the company, Shuntaro Furukawa, made a brief statement confirming that Nintendo is indeed working on a successor to the Nintendo Switch. Capping off Nintendo's quarterly financial report was an announcement that the unveiling of Nintendo's follow-up to the Switch would happen before the end of this fiscal year (March 2025). In the same message, Furukawa also announced that a Nintendo Direct is on the way sometime in June--though it will focus solely on latter-half 2024 Nintendo Switch titles, and will not feature any information regarding the successor system.

Current rumor reports state that a "Nintendo Switch 2" system was scheduled to be released around holiday 2024, though the hardware was delayed internally, to make sure that the upcoming system had as many quality launch titles as possible. Bloomberg has reported that Nintendo has been supplied with a notable amount of 8-inch Foxconn LCD screens, implying that the new Nintendo hardware may be very similar to the Nintendo Switch.

https://twitter.com/NintendoCoLtd/status/1787736518762881197

Okay it’s confirmed now, we can stop the whole rumors now

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Holy sh*t now they got the whole internet on their hands... again

I'm really curious if they gonna let this new console's info leak

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You remembered me some people who said the new one will have a 4K screen on it

I really want to see that happen, just think of the technological achievement it would be since the Steam Deck hasn’t quite gotten that yet.

 

[Chary]

Switch 2 rumors are out of the way.

Now we can focus on dead franchise rumors like a new F-Zero or a new Golden Sun

 

[Veho]

So release date November 2025?

Switch 2 rumors are out of the way.

Are you kidding? This will only make them worse.

 

[Lumpofcoal]

I wonder what feature title(s) will go along with its debut. Another Zelda?

 

[LeeNose]

Exciting!
My Switch from 2017 is so worn out. Both my joy-cons have stick drift, I've drilled a hole in the right one for a RCM button, the screen is cracked. I only use it in docked mode nowadays, so a new one could be fun!

 

[Flame]

Exciting!
My Switch from 2017 is so worn out. Both my joy-cons have stick drift, I've drilled a hole in the right one for a RCM button, the screen is cracked. I only use it in docked mode nowadays, so a new one could be fun!

*Looks at avatar*
*looks at post*

Are you a butcher?

 

[NyaakoXD]

Feels like they want to repeat the Switch's reveal and release timing.

• Reveal on late October-November 2024.
• Release date on late March-April 2025, beginning of their next fiscal year

 

[Keylogger]

Nintendo Gamecube 2 confirmed

 

[CoolMe]

Now we can focus on dead franchise rumors like a new F-Zero or a new Golden Sun

Metroid Prime 4

 

[Lostbhoy]

I wonder what feature title(s) will go along with its debut. Another Zelda?

Every Wii U and Switch game ported with the letters HD attached! Even the existing HD ports will be HDHD now!!

 

[DragonMals]

good everyone can shut the fuck up with the fake switch 2 posts now

it’s confirmed now, we can stop the whole rumors now

You remembered me some people who said the new one will have a 4K screen on it

This is all I have in my mind for the nee Nintendo Switch Successor. Y'all calling it the switch 2 still, and i still won't take those words, and wait for an actual console to be released under a new and better title.

I just can't wait to see the specs for it being relatively similar and backwards compatible to the Switch lol. All I'll say is that tbis console BETTER have backwards compatibility because they literally can't avoid the Switch's initial success and whatnot. I'll also be keeping an internal clock in my mind to see how long it'll take for someone to make an emulation device on PC that will support this new console.

 

[Maximumbeans]

So it's one of the most easy-to-meme things in existence but what do we actually think in terms of name?

Will they be as straightforward as Sony for once and just go with Switch 2? Or are we going to see a new 'New' family?

 

[CoolMe]

"The new Nintendo Switch 2, comes with slightly bigger & brighter screen, joycons prolly the same, a %10 cpu, gpu, teraflops increase blah blah etc. and there's Switch Virtual Console (or BC) where you have to rebuy all your Switch games again, or you can just join the new Nintendo Switch Online 2 to access some of those games on our eShop"..

 

[LeeNose]

*Looks at avatar*
*looks at post*

Are you a butcher?

That's an actual picture of me dropping my switch

 

[zxr750j]

I'll buy one I guess...

 

[spinal_cord]

As we all know, Nintendo consoles from 16bit upwards go 'good' 'bad' 'good' 'bad' 'good' 'bad'.

SNES -> GameCube -> Wii -> WiiU -> Switch -> Switch 2.


I fully expect this to be another WiiU or DSi. Nobody will see any reason to buy a Switch 2 if it is simply an upgrade to the Switch.