Is this the Nintendo Switch 2?

Nintendo isn’t officially astatine CES, but it mightiness person stolen the show anyway: accessories-maker Genki brought a 3D-printed mockup of what it says is Nintendo’s Switch successor, and we sewage to clasp it and return immoderate high-resolution pictures.

Based connected the mockup of what we’ll telephone the Switch 2, Nintendo’s adjacent console appears to beryllium wider than the original, pinch somewhat larger Joy-Con controllers that look for illustration they’ll beryllium much comfortable to hold. Compared to a Steam Deck OLED, the Switch 2 mockup still feels noticeably smaller, successful portion because the Joy-Cons are not arsenic pronounced and ergonomic arsenic the Deck’s grips. But the mockup still feels person successful size to Valve’s handheld than the original Switch.

As erstwhile rumors person indicated, the Switch 2’s Joy-Cons will connect to the console via magnets alternatively of a sliding rail, Genki co-founder and CEO Eddie Tsai tells The Verge. To detach a Joy-Con from the Switch 2, you property a large fastener astatine the apical of the backmost broadside of each controller, Tsai says, and that fastener apparently pushes retired a pin that nudges against the chassis of the console, disconnecting the magnets.

You tin region the Joy-Cons pinch brute unit if you really wanted to, according to Tsai, but he says that wide they consciousness unafraid for regular usage and that the large merchandise fastener detaches the Joy-Cons pinch ease. Tsai declined to stock wherever he’d learned specifications of the caller console.

Tsai besides tells The Verge that housed wrong the mounting transmission of the Joy-Cons is an optical sensor, and by utilizing different attachment the caller Joy-Cons whitethorn connection mouse-like functionality. It sounds a spot for illustration what Lenovo does with its Legion Go handheld.

Nintendo has promised that it will denote the Switch’s successor before April 2025, and arsenic that deadline creeps closer, location person been waves of leaks and rumors astir the caller hardware. In December, YouTube transmission SwitchUp posted a video showing a 3D-printed, non-functional Switch 2 mockup provided by a Chinese lawsuit manufacturer. That mockup fundamentally looked for illustration the existent Switch but bigger, and it revealed a fewer different imaginable changes for illustration a caller USB-C larboard connected the apical of the instrumentality and a mysterious caller quadrate fastener nether the Home fastener connected the correct Joy-Con.

Days later, accessories-maker Dbrand announced its “Killswitch 2” case, and CEO Adam Ijaz told The Verge that it was designed based connected “actual dimensions” based connected a “3D scan of the existent hardware.” Ijaz besides said that it was his “understanding” that the console’s Joy-Cons are magnetically attached. And Dbrand’s imagery showed that the caller quadrate fastener had a “C” printed connected it, though Ijaz didn’t cognize what it was. Days aft that, our workfellow Sean Hollister said pinch a Redditor who shared evident photos of the Switch 2’s dock and the inside of what appears to beryllium a Switch 2 Joy-Con.

With that April 2025 deadline inching person each day, it seems for illustration it won’t beryllium agelong until Nintendo officially, yet reveals the Switch 2. But until that happens, astatine slightest we person these pictures to look at.

Photography by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge