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

 

[RedColoredStars]

Every time Nintendo shows up in an article, 9/10 times it's to report on what crummy, anti consumer things they did this week.

That's not true tho.

 

[Faust03]

Every time Nintendo shows up in an article, 9/10 times it's to report on what crummy, anti consumer things they did this week.

I like nintendo half of the time though

 

[DuoForce]

Watch as whatever this "successor" is, there will be emulation (and arguably softmods) for it that learns absolutely nothing about how to keep thier ass out of Nintendo's Lealease Eye of Sauran like Yuzu did

I don't know about that one, chief. V2, Lite, and OLED STILL rely on hardmods for homebrew.

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This thread is a perfect example of everything I hate about GBATemp...

We're finally getting new hardware. We're getting more powerful stuff, something EVERYONE has been wanting, and the first thing everyone does is complain. If you don't like weak hardware, go play your PS5 Pro/Xbox Series X/PC. If you don't like Nintendo, don't buy their games/hardware. Let us have this.

The criticism is fair. Nintendo used to be on top of their game when it came to hardware.

 

[BaamAlex]

As long as it gets themes and music, I'll be happy!

Forget it. The switch still has no themes. I doubt that they will be implemented on the next console. Perhaps they think that themes can be exploited to execute unsigned code. Or so...i dunno. Bullshit statements and so on. But who knows.

 

[Bladexdsl]

We're finally getting new hardware. We're getting more powerful stuff, something EVERYONE has been wanting

and where exactly does it mention that? there have been zero mention of what it's going to have just stupid fake rumors as usual. so until there is actual proof of it having considerably stronger hardware maybe on par with the ps5 than i am going to continue to demean it successor and assume it's going to be the switch-U.

 

[MayorBryce]

Everyone? I've read that various fans are fine with Switch as it is so for them it could last for a little longer.

The Switch is okay for portable play, and fine with overclocking. It’s basically 720p60 in every game. The problem is when you dock it, and suddenly 720p looks low resolution on the 4k monitors every GBATemp member seems to have.

By everyone, I mean everyone in this thread. There doesn’t seem to be a single person here who actually is happy about the news.

The criticism is fair. Nintendo used to be on top of their game when it came to hardware.

I get it, you wanna play your games at 4k. If so, may I direct your attention to the Xbox X, or the PS5 Pro, or a gaming PC, all with just enough teraflops that your grubby, unoptimized games need. Would you be satisfied if Nintendo’s next console was on par with these systems? I highly doubt it.

 

[Maximo101]

So...how quickly after launch do you think we will see a poorly coded emulator??

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The Switch is okay for portable play, and fine with overclocking. It’s basically 720p60 in every game. The problem is when you dock it, and suddenly 720p looks low resolution on the 4k monitors every GBATemp member seems to have.

By everyone, I mean everyone in this thread. There doesn’t seem to be a single person here who actually is happy about the news.

I get it, you wanna play your games at 4k. If so, may I direct your attention to the Xbox X, or the PS5 Pro, or a gaming PC, all with just enough teraflops that your grubby, unoptimized games need. Would you be satisfied if Nintendo’s next console was on par with these systems? I highly doubt it.

What is a PS5 pro? PS4 pro plays in 4K... I think the PS5 does as well, but mine's been boxed up since I bought it a couple years ago.

 

[LoggerMan]

A powerful portable that is somehow compatible with all consumer VR headsets. And has smell-o-vision.

 

[Ligeia]

What's deluxe about it? New content?

A new amiibo feature I guess ?

 

[Marc_LFD]

A new amiibo feature I guess ?

Amiibos? That's still a thing?

 

[17hitcombooo]

does this mean our games will run at 50 frames per second?

 

[regnad]

My totally unrealistic dream for the upcoming direct is either a remake of the Oracle games or a new top down 2D Zelda.

 

[Centrix]

Typical Nintendo trying too divert our attention away from their new console. I bet it will be the last thing they show at their direct in June. They always pulling this shit before thee unveil, hell it will probably be leaked in June any ways lol. Oh! its not going to be there and then bam!

 

[HarveyHouston]

You mean the stamping out of Xecuter or something else?

I mean everything they've been doing within the past couple of years, and especially since the beginning of 2024. Frankly, I don't really care about Switch 2 anymore.

 

[Xzi]

Watch them sell the first revision with an LCD screen just so they can try to get people to double dip later on. Also because they'll be expecting it to get exploited within the first year.

 

[Marc_LFD]

My totally unrealistic dream for the upcoming direct is either a remake of the Oracle games or a new top down 2D Zelda.

I'd really like to see Twilight Princess HD released again. I don't get why it wasn't on the Switch and don't expect it now either.

 

[eduall]

IMO Nintendo is the TOP for the videogame industry...
Look at the post reviews when a news about it appears and compared with another companies like Sony and Microsoft... Nintendo still wins

 

[MarkDarkness]

Not buying.

 

[Marc_LFD]

IMO Nintendo is the TOP for the videogame industry...
Look at the post reviews when a news about it appears and compared with another companies like Sony and Microsoft... Nintendo still wins

M$ and Sony aren't doing great for gamers, but neither is Nintendo. In fact they've been kind of slacking.

 

[DS1]

So, not the Wii U like the doomers are saying, but the Kinect.

Knowing Miyamoto it can only be controlled by the pure heart of a child.