Nintendo has officially discussed for the first time, and laid out a rough timetable for when we’ll see the much-discussed but still under-wraps console publicly unveiled.
A message from Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa, posted this morning to social media platform X, confirms we’ll hear of Switch 2 “this fiscal year” – before the end of March 2025.
But the message also damps down any expectation we’ll hear about Switch 2 in the next few months – as Furukawa rules out any further details being shared in an upcoming Nintendo Direct scheduled for June.
“This is Furukawa, president of Nintendo,” Furukawa wrote. “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 this June regarding the Nintendo Switch software lineup for the latter half of 2024, but please be aware that there will be no mention of the Nintendo Switch successor during that presentation.”
Nintendo had, until now, kept quiet on its plans for a successor to the long-lived Switch – despite a steady stream of leaks detailing Switch 2’s progress to release.
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
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Eurogamer reported last summer that Nintendo had demoed Switch 2’s hardware capabilities to a number of developers around the Gamescom event in August. Eurogamer sources later confirmed Switch 2 was now on track to launch in 2025 – a little later than planned, to allow the machine to arrive with a robust software line-up.