Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa lately confirmed plans for the mysterious new Nintendo Switch successor to be unveiled inside this fiscal 12 months, which spans via March 31, 2025. Other official particulars concerning the Switch successor (dubbed the “Nintendo Switch 2”) are at the moment scarce, however Furukawa additionally revealed that the brand new console will characteristic backwards compatibility with its predecessor.
New rumors concerning the Switch 2 proceed to floor with the most recent one now indicating once we may have the ability to anticipate the brand new gadget to launch. This data comes straight from Nintendúo, who claims that they’ve acquired direct affirmation from a minimum of six sport improvement corporations.
According to Nintendúo, the Nintendo Switch 2 is slated to be launched someplace round June or July 2025. This would give Nintendo a brief window between the console’s announcement and launch, however that is pretty much like how the Nintendo Switch’s launch was dealt with.
Notably, the Nintendo Switch was initially introduced again on October 20, 2016. It would then be launched worldwide somewhat over 4 months in a while March 3, 2017.
At this level, it has been over seven years for the reason that Switch was made out there in retail. This longevity will be largely attributed to its success contemplating that it is now the third best-selling gaming gadget of all time with 146.04 million gross sales.
Based on what’s now formally recognized concerning the Switch 2’s backwards compatibility, it appears like a secure guess to imagine that the upcoming console shall be even be a hybrid gadget that acts as a direct improve over its predecessor.
Rumors appear to be suggesting that the Switch is to be priced round 400 to 500 Euros. For these of us within the United States, that’d be someplace within the space of $422.67 to $528.33.
“Yes! Yooka-Replaylee shall be playable on PS5, Xbox Series consoles and… Nintendo? Ooh mysterious. We’ll have extra on that as quickly as poss!” — Yooka-Replaylee web site
In a current trailer promoting Yooka-Replaylee, followers discovered that the sport shall be coming to the PC, Xbox Series, PlayStation 5, and “Nintendo.” There was a suspicious animation that appeared to characteristic the eyes of Cappy (from Super Mario Odyssey) that was particularly hovering across the Nintendo emblem.
Over on the official web site for Yooka-Replaylee, the builders supplied extra details about this. Through these coy actions, it actually does really feel like they’re explicitly hinting that Yooka-Replaylee is slated to be launched for the Switch 2. Of course, there’s at the moment no details about this sport’s launch date.
“Yes! Yooka-Replaylee shall be playable on PS5, Xbox Series consoles and… Nintendo?” mentioned in an official assertion by the Yooka-Replaylee builders on their web site. “Ooh mysterious. We’ll have extra on that as quickly as poss!”
Around this time, Masahiro Sakurai wrapped up his schedule for releasing content material on his YouTube channel. In his remaining celebratory video, he revealed that he had been engaged on a secret sport undertaking since April 2022.
“I’m sorry I am unable to share extra about this undertaking, however assuming we’re capable of get it made, it needs to be introduced ultimately.” — Masahiro Sakurai
“It was round July 2021. I used to be busy engaged on the DLC of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate,” mentioned Sakurai again then. “To be exact, I used to be placing collectively the video for ‘Mr. Sakurai Presents Kazuya.’ Sora was in improvement too, in fact. While I used to be busy engaged on these duties, I acquired a request to jot down a sport proposal, which I completed at lightning pace.”
Considering the size of time by which Sakurai has been concerned with this mysterious sport, it appears doubtless that the announcement of this undertaking is being held off till the disclosing of the Switch 2. Ultimately although, Sakurai did declare that we should not have to attend an excessive amount of longer for this to occur.
“I’m sorry I am unable to share extra about this undertaking, however assuming we’re capable of get it made, it needs to be introduced ultimately,” mentioned Sakurai.
All of this appears to be pointing in direction of the approaching announcement of the Switch 2, doubtless after the 2024 vacation season. With that in thoughts, a launch window round June or July 2025 appears like a reputable chance.
