Switch 2 will be revealed before April 2025, promises Nintendo

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Nintendo has thrown Switch players a long-awaited bony alongside announcing its end-of-year financials results, confirming nan console’s successor will beryllium unveiled earlier April, 2025. Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa said that a next-generation Nintendo Switch console will beryllium announced “within this fiscal year” — giving nan Japanese gaming elephantine a deadline of March 31st, 2025. That aligns nicely pinch its existent Q1 2025 rumored launch.

Regarding nan Switch 2 console announcement, Furukawa said:

We will make an announcement astir nan successor to Nintendo Switch wrong this fiscal year. It will person been complete 9 years since we announced nan beingness of Nintendo Switch backmost successful March 2015. We will beryllium holding a Nintendo Direct this June regarding nan Nintendo Switch package lineup for nan second half of 2024, but please beryllium alert that location will beryllium nary mention of nan Nintendo Switch successor during that presentation.

Meanwhile, Nintendo’s forecast signals an anticipated slowdown successful Switch console sales, projecting to waste 13.5 cardinal Switch consoles this twelvemonth compared to nan 15.7 cardinal units sold nan erstwhile fiscal year. Net profit during nan upcoming twelvemonth is besides expected to autumn by 39 percent, alongside a projected 19 percent autumn successful revenue.

Nintendo hasn’t fixed up connected nan existent procreation of Switch consoles, however. In its forecast nan institution said it will “try to not only put 1 strategy successful each home, but respective successful each home, aliases moreover 1 for each person.”