The Nintendo Switch 2 has been delayed to 2025, according to reports

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The Nintendo Switch has had a dominant life as a hybrid console-handheld, enjoying success since its launch in 2017. However, late last year heard some rumblings that Nintendo was preparing to move onward to a successor to the Nintendo Switch. According to Video Games Chronicle, Eurogamer, and other insider sources, development kits for a "Switch 2" had already been sent out to third-party devs, and rumors were claiming that the system would launch sometime in 2024.

Now, things have changed. While Nintendo was planning to launch the Switch 2 around late 2024, those same insider sources claim that due to some internal delays, the next-gen Nintendo console is targeting a Q1 2025 launch--similar to the original Switch, which launched in March 2017. VGC's sources state that the Switch 2 still plans on being a hybrid system, offering portable functionality, while Eurogamer corroborates VGC's statements, while additionally adding that the reasoning is so that the Switch 2 features as many launch titles as possible.
 

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It was delayed because mig switch carts work on the switch 2 prototypes, and they are taking time to implement a more secure game loading system

Watch PS7 and Xbox A/B get released before switch 2
Sincerely hope they call it Xbox 2
 

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At the rate the Switch continues to sell, I get it. I mean I want the Switch 2 now, but sales are still so strong in a year that looks to be weak in competition for exciting new games as it is, why not just coast for a year, at the rate things are going the Switch will be the highest selling total units of a gaming system of all time within the next year or so.
 

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Why do we need another model when the Switch OG, Lite and OLED is about enough? Guess thirsty fanboys want anything these days. :glare:
Switch
Switch 2.0 (Better Battery)
Switch OLED
Switch Lite

Man, that's way too many as it is. I guess they could release one called "Switch Mini" in that they'd somehow make it to the size of a GBA/3DS.
 
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My pet theory

It was delayed because mig switch carts work on the switch 2 prototypes, and they are taking time to implement a more secure game loading system


Sincerely hope they call it Xbox 2
Xbox is from Microsoft
so, the next one should be XBox 5
 

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Why do we need another model when the Switch OG, Lite and OLED is about enough? Guess thirsty fanboys want anything these days. :glare:
Mostly because no third-party dev wants to bother porting to a system with only 4GB of RAM. Nintendo themselves could probably make due with 512MB.
 

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