There’s some slight bad news about the Nintendo Switch 2’s release date. At first we thought it was coming in 2024. Then we heard it would potentially be out in this financial year, suggesting a launch in March.
But now we hear game developers have been told not to expect the Switch 2 to come out before April 2025. This is according to Gamesindustry.biz .
However, just a few months before this Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa suggested we would hear about the console before April. “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,” he wrote through the company’s @NintendoCoLtd X account. There is, of course, a difference between making an announcement about a console and it coming out. And the original Switch was announced in October 2016, before being released months later in March 2017.
One of the most recent rumours on the console is the Nintendo Switch 2’s version of the Joy-Cons will use a magnetic fixing system, according to Spanish website Vandal . Current designs use a slide-on rail system, and it’s quite liable to develop wobble after a while. Fingers crossed the next style of Joy-Con will fix both that and the dreaded stick drift.
To find out more about what we can expect from the Switch 2’s overall design, the Standard spoke to gaming analyst James McWhirtet .