Nintendo has revealed the window of time for the announcement of its successor to the Switch.
Switch 2 Closer to Reality?
President Shuntaro Furukawa confirmed the news in a statement published alongside recent financial results, saying, ”We will make an announcement about the successor to Nintendo Switch within this fiscal year,”
That means we should hear news on the next-gen console by March 2025, but the window was narrowed a little bit by Furukawa dismissing a June showing.
“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.”
It had previously been reported that the Nintendo Switch 2 could launch in 2025, which is still technically possible if an announcement is due in the next ten months.
It’s been just over seven years since the Nintendo Switch was released, and in that time, it has become the third best-selling console of all time and Nintendo’s second best seller behind The DS.
The latest sales figures showed Switch narrowly beat its forecast of selling 15.5 million units in the previous fiscal year. Nintendo believes sales will fall this year, though, as it has projected 13.5m units sold by March 2025.
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe remains the best-selling title on the console, having shipped 61.97m copies, dwarfing that of second-placed Animal Crossing: New Horizons with 45.36m.
