Nintendo Switch 2: Rumored Release Date: Nintendo is reportedly ready to announce its next piece of hardware after seven years on the market, 130 million systems sold, and more than 1 billion games sold.
This post gathers everything we know about the Switch 2–or whatever Nintendo’s next console will be called–and what’s been speculated about it.
This article discusses the Switch 2’s potential form factor, its release date, price, launch games, and backward compatibility.
Based on Nintendo’s history, it seems likely that the new system will have some kind of original name, although we’ll refer to it as the Switch 2.
It is expected that Nintendo will announce and release the Switch 2 in 2024, but a recent report suggests a release date in 2025.
Nintendo’s Switch, released in 2017, was a very well received and commercially successful console, but fans are always looking for something new.
According to Nintendo management, the Switch was in the middle of its lifecycle in 2021.
We are now in 2024, and it is reasonable to assume that the Switch has reached the end of its lifecycle.
For now, here are all the essential details we know about the Switch 2.
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Nintendo Switch 2: Rumored Release Date
It’s impossible to predict how Nintendo will proceed with its next piece of hardware. The Wii and Wii U, for example, launched in November.
The Switch 2 could be released in the first half of 2024 to allow Nintendo to resolve any potential stock shortages before the ever-important holiday shopping season.
A September 2024 release date for the Switch 2 was just announced by GameShark in an official press release. But it’s probably not true.
Afterwards, an analyst predicted Switch 2 would launch in 2024 with an 8-inch LCD screen (a step back from the smaller OLED screen featured in the most recent revision).
Nintendo has been internally delaying the launch of the Switch 2 to 2025, according to multiple reports. Nintendo’s stock price plunged following the publication of these reports, and industry observers commented on how, if true, it would paint a “fairly devastating” picture for the gaming market in general in 2024.
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Potential Specifications for Switch 2
What Nintendo’s next piece of hardware will look like is one of the biggest unknowns.
According to former Nintendo employees, it will have a similar form factor to the Switch and can be used both as a handheld device and docked to your TV.
In terms of what we can expect from Nintendo’s next system, we only have predictions and guesses to go on, apart from how they intend to “surprise and delight” fans.
According to Digital Foundry, the Switch 2 may use Nvidia’s new custom variant T239 processor.
Based on what the site believed the Switch 2’s specs would be, the PC could run Death Stranding at 1080p at an average of 35 frames per second.
2024 may be the launch date for Nintendo’s next console
Backward compatibility with Switch 2 games
Nintendo is widely expected to release a new Mario Kart game for its next console-there aren’t many safer bets in gaming.
Fans are eagerly awaiting Mario Kart 9’s “new twist.” If a new Mario Kart game is being developed, it would make business sense to launch it with the next console.
Many developers already have the new Nintendo console in their offices and are building games for it, but none have been announced or even hinted at.
Fans want to know if the next Nintendo console will support games from the Switch. We do not know.
Nintendo’s previous statements about the Nintendo Account system carrying over to the next system might suggest the company will offer some kind of backward compatibility.
According to a former Nintendo employee, the Switch 2 will be backward compatible with digital eShop games.
As we learn more about the next Nintendo console, we’ll continue to update this story with new information.
Switch 2 Price
There is no official announcement of the Switch 2, so everything is a guess at this point. One analyst recently predicted that the Switch 2 will cost $400 and that its top-tier games will be $70.
Initially priced at $300, the Switch performed exceptionally well due to its relatively low price point.
Whether the next Nintendo console will launch with just one SKU or multiple editions, at different price points, remains to be seen.
It wouldn’t be surprising to see game costs rise to $70. After all, Nintendo already charged $70 for Tears of the Kingdom, and it was a huge success at that price point.
Despite Nintendo’s claim that it was a one-time deal, charging $70 for Switch 2 games would bring Nintendo in line with what Sony, Microsoft, and third-party publishers charge.
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