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Nintendo Switch Successor Will Be Revealed By April 2025

The president of Nintendo has spoken.

By George Yang on May 7, 2024 at 6:41AM PDT

Nintendo has announced that the successor for the Switch will be revealed within this fiscal year, which ends in April 2025.

Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa took to the Nintendo's Japanese Twitter account, saying, "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."

As part of an earnings call, Furukawa was asked about the nature of the new system. According to MST Financial analyst David Gibson, he responded, "Switch next model is the appropriate way to describe it," indicating the new system won't be a massive departure from the original Switch. Previous Nintendo consoles--going from GameCube to Wii to Wii U to Switch--saw radical changes to the basic concept of the hardware.

In the tweet, Furukawa also said that there will be a Nintendo Direct presentation this June showcasing content for the latter half of 2024, but it won't contain any information about the Nintendo Switch successor.

There were rumors that the Switch successor was going to launch sometime this year, but recent reports suggest that it was pushed back to 2025 instead.

The device will reportedly have magnetic Joy-Con controllers rather than the rail-equipped ones that the current Switch uses. However, the Pro controller is expected to be backwards compatible with the successor.

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good news.

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First they say still this calendar year, a day later until April 2025, ok, so which is it now?

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I'm really hoping it's a significant upgrade in power and has an OLED screen. Knowing them they'll release the OLED version a year after just to milk the consumers... I hope not though.

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"announcement" of Switch Next could mean many things besides an actual reveal of the system

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Edited By NiceMouse

THAT'S ONLY ELEVEN MONTHS!!!

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And it is already severely underpowered

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@chuckratm1: Not compared to things like the Series S and the Steam Deck (theoretically)

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@Spartan_418: the Switch 2 won’t be able to run either of those systems Bare Minimum, Low End games, but Nintendo appreciates you….now get off your knees, they must hurt.

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@chuckratm1: There have been behind-closed-doors demos showing The Matrix Awakens running on Switch 2 hardware. That's something the Steam Deck can't do (at least not well enough to want to show it to anyone).

If you made any predictions back in 2016 ish about what the first Switch could do, clearly you would have been wrong.

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As long as it's backward compatible !

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The problem I have with Nintendo is the same problem I have with Microsoft and Sony. They want me to buy their consoles, but they aren't making games I care about any more. The last games I bought for the Switch were BotW (which I loved but it would have been better as a Wii U exclusive due to the second screen UI they took out for the Switch) and Mario Odyssey which did nothing for me at all. Everything else felt like I already played it on the Wii U, the Switch didn't feel like an advancement at all. I know this will make Smash Bros and Mario Kart fans mad.... But both of those Switch games felt exactly like the Wii U games to casual players like me. There still hasn't been a good Pokemon game in years, I'd expect them to make something on the scale of The Witcher 3 by now.... But instead it feels like they're making games not even on the level of the PS2.

So I dunno I feel so bored of their lineup like I do with Sony that just keeps making the same boring third person action adventure games over and over. Or Microsoft that is buying everything to get to the top, only to find out they've bought crap like Bethesda. Everything I seem to be playing now is from indies and if Nintendo want me to play their games, they better release them on PC because they do not make enough to make their console worth it.

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@Slannmage: It's wild that a decade has passed without a new DKC or Mario Kart game. I'm also with you on Smash Ultimate; while I consider it a new game, it really doesn't feel like one. SSB, Melee, Brawl and Smash 4 all had a very different aesthetic, but Smash Ultimate just felt like a new wave of DLC for Smash 4.

I know making an HD game with the most characters and stages ever takes longer than making Melee did, but why do I still love all the previous Smash games just as much, if not more? Was Smash Ultimate worth 10 years without a game that feels new? I would say no.

Honestly, I would really not mind if they experimented with smaller, more frequent releases that cost less to make but still have a clear vision put into them. Smash Ultimate did have a vision ("everyone is here"), which is just enough to qualify as its own game, but where do you go from there? I don't want them to just add to Smash Ultimate indefinitely or worse: re-release the game again for Switch 2 and call it a day.

I would also add Zelda to the list of disappointments, because Tears was, simply put, not worth 7+ years without a new Zelda. Maybe if there had been a brand new 2D Zelda between Breath and Tears, it wouldn't have been so bad, but that hasn't happened. Just a lot of nothing.

I have my own letdowns as well, such as Fire Emblem jumping the shark with Engage, going full wacky mode to the point where I consider that game a filler spin-off game just like the musou games, so to me we haven't had a new Fire Emblem since 2019, which is by far the longest gap there has ever been between games. It already was the longest gap even if you do count Engage, but I don't.

I think if I had to give any praise to the Switch, it would be that it's a good console for people who missed out on Nintendo consoles and handhelds growing up. The problem is I had every Nintendo console and handheld from SNES and GBC onwards. If I want to play old stuff, I don't need the Switch for that.

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@Tiwill44: i agree about Tears, it was pretty bad.

But I see Smash Ultimate as peak smash bros. I dont miss the older games at all, Ultimate is strictly a better replacement to all of them in my mind, and if a new game in the series would see some of the fantastic dlc additions get cut, Id rather just have an Ultimate Deluxe come out for Switch 2 with even more fighters and stages. Losing characters like Banjo is not worth a new aesthetic for me, especially since Ultimate is fantastic mechanically.

Switch also had many great exclusives. Metroid Dread, Links Awakening remake, Luigis Mansion 3, Mario Odyssey, to name a few. I loathed Nintendo's output in the Wii and Wii U era, I felt their quality dropped significantly after the gamecube. I was fully off Nintendo until the Switch redeemed them in my eyes.

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@boodger: I think people often forget how amazing the DS was, alongside the somewhat lackluster Wii. The same applies with the 3DS, though I found it to be a bit more even with the Wii U. A lot of the Switch's best games are Wii U games, after all.

The problem I have is that for the first time in forever, Nintendo now has only one console instead of two, and their game output slowed down tremendously as a result. And it's not like the quality is always better for it. Sometimes it's a lot worse; the easiest example of that would be Pokémon.

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sounds good.

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Use your keyboard!

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