Everything we know (and think we know) about the Nintendo Switch 2

Nintendo’s announcement of the Switch successor is imminent. Just really imminent is anyone’s conjecture pinch the institution stating that it would reveal info connected the console earlier the extremity of its fiscal twelvemonth successful March. Rumors regarding the caller Switch person been circulating for more than a year, but pinch little than 2 months to spell until the promised deadline, and successful the absence of immoderate existent accusation from Nintendo itself, speculation astir the console, its specs, beingness profile, and much person reached a fever pitch. So earlier the charismatic reveal, here’s everything we deliberation we cognize astir Nintendo’s adjacent console.

The only concrete, Nintendo-confirmed portion of accusation we cognize astir the caller console is that it’ll beryllium backwards compatible pinch the Switch. Everything other has travel by measurement of leaks and info supplied by third-party manufacturers. Late past year, 1 specified manufacturer, Dbrand, debuted its Killswitch carrying lawsuit meant for the Switch 2. According to Dbrand CEO Adam Ijaz, the Killswitch is based connected the “actual dimensions” of the caller console obtained from a “3D scan of the existent hardware.” But successful an question and reply pinch The Verge, he declined to opportunity precisely really aliases wherever Dbrand obtained specified information.

If the Killswitch’s creation is so derived from the existent thing, the caller console will beryllium larger than the Switch OLED pinch an 8-inch screen, and characteristic a kickstand that will span the magnitude of the console akin to the OLED model. That the caller Switch will beryllium larger than erstwhile iterations is supported by leaks and info from different accessory manufacturers arsenic good arsenic the thought that the Joy-Con controllers will connect via magnet alternatively of sliding and snapping into place. The caller controller creation will besides incorporated magnets successful the joysticks to combat against the dreaded “Joy-Con drift” that plagues the Switch moreover now.

CES 2025 provided moreover much fodder for the rumor mill, pinch accessory shaper Genki showing disconnected a 3D printed mock-up of the console connected the show floor. In an question and reply pinch The Verge, Genki CEO Eddie Tsai went into item astir what he knows astir the caller Switch reaffirming rumors regarding its larger size, magnetic Joy-Con, and more.

While there’s a batch of speculation and imaginable grounds astir what the caller console will look like, there’s little circulating astir what it tin really do. Beyond an alleged photograph of the console’s motherboard, location hasn’t been overmuch retired location astir the console’s hardware specifications. Because Nintendo has ne'er made consoles astatine the bleeding separator (or, honestly, moreover the cutting one) of graphics aliases processing power, it’s difficult to conjecture really good the console will execute aliases what further features, for illustration a microphone, it’ll have.

Though the console’s internals stay a mystery, we do cognize that it’ll beryllium backwards compatible pinch Switch games. We tin besides reasonably conjecture astatine slightest 1 crippled that’ll beryllium a motorboat title: Metroid Prime 4. Announced successful 2017, and undergoing a alteration of workplace and a improvement reboot 2 years later, Nintendo debuted gameplay footage for the first clip past twelvemonth and shared a soft motorboat model of 2025. When Twilight Princess launched successful 2006, it debuted connected some the GameCube and served arsenic a motorboat title for the Wii. Breath of the Wild was besides cross-gen, debuting connected the Wii U while launching pinch the Switch successful 2017.

Knowing that the caller Switch and Metroid Prime 4 some motorboat successful 2025 and pinch Twilight Princess and BotW arsenic examples, it’s speculated that the logic for Metroid 4’s agelong stint successful improvement hellhole was, astatine slightest successful part, because the crippled was being tooled for some the Switch and its successor. Also, you conscionable can’t person a caller Nintendo console without a Mario game. Super Mario Odyssey was a Switch motorboat title, and though there’s been different caller releases for illustration Super Mario Wonder, location hasn’t been a new, standalone (put down your pitchforks Bowser’s Fury fans) 3D Mario crippled since then. It’s each but assured 1 will beryllium announced pinch the caller Switch. The precocious announced Pokémon Legends: Z-A is besides a bully motorboat title campaigner arsenic Nintendo curiously worded the game’s debut trailer pinch “releasing simultaneously worldwide connected Nintendo Switch successful 2025.”

For each the rumors and reasonable guesses supported by progressively convincing evidence, it’s adjuvant to retrieve that astatine the extremity of the day, we’re still talking astir Nintendo. The institution has ever tread a abstracted and unpredictable path from the different 2 awesome console manufacturers and that oddball strategy has mostly worked very well. Though the institution is not immune to the aforesaid layoffs and delays (the Switch 2 was primitively pegged for a 2024 release) plaguing its peers and so has its ain manifold issues pinch really it treats and pays its labor and contractors, of the awesome publishers, it seems to beryllium the 1 that is champion navigating the existent situation ravaging the industry.

It is folly trying to foretell what Nintendo will do, and that applies to its caller console. All we tin count connected is that it’s coming soon, and erstwhile it arrives, it’ll beryllium big.