Many have been awaiting the rumoured Nintendo Switch 2 for some time, but we may have to wait until late into next year for it.
According to Christopher Dring of GamesIndustry.biz, many developers have said the Nintendo Switch 2 may not be released until April 2025 at the earliest, so the next fiscal year. Previous rumours suggested it would be released this fiscal year, which ends March 31, 2025.
“No developer I have spoken to expects it to launch in this financial year,” Dring says on the GI podcast. “In fact, they’ve been told not to expect it in this financial year. A bunch of people I spoke to hope it’s out in April/May.”
Back in February, it was believed that the Nintendo Switch 2 had been delayed from 2024 to sometime in 2025. It was speculated that this was so Nintendo could amass a stockpile of the consoles to avoid shortages once it hit the shelves. So, a delay to the following fiscal year could be purely a business decision designed to help the state of company growth on paper.
It has also been speculated that the Nintendo Switch 2 will actually be named the Switch Attach. This is based on a marketing survey seen on YouTube. That being said, Nintendo has been known to use codenames for its consoels in the past. The GameCube was known as Dolphin, the Wii had the working name Revolution, and the Switch was originally known as NX.
It should also be noted that Nintendo hasn’t officially confirmed anything about the Switch 2, so all of this is conjecture right now.
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