Games Industry journalist Christopher Dring has said on a recent podcast that he’s spoken to a range of developers about the successor to the Switch and that they have said that not to expect it this financial year. If this information is true then it means that gamers shouldn’t expect it to follow the same release schedule as the original Switch, which launched in March 2017. He went on to say that the people he spoke to hope it will be available in April or May, though nothing definitive has been announced by Nintendo.
“..The second one is that no developer I’ve spoken to expects it to launch in this financial year, in fact they’ve been told not to expect it in this financial year. A bunch of people I spoke to hope it’s out in April/May time still early next year not late..”
I’m guessing it will launch next year in March. I’m expecting a reveal this year.
Sonic. Next March is still this fiscal year for Nintendo.
You just burned him to death, haha!
That would mean THIS fiscal year, as March 31st is the end of the current fiscal year. That means Christopher Dring is wrong here.
I assume that would be the case.
I think March again. I don’t believe one man’s comments from a podcast over Nintendo delivering projections to their investors.
I believe it could have been released earlier but Nintendo are holding back so that they can build up enough stock to feed the massive amount of bots trying to scalp and also have stock to sell to actual day one buyers.
That way it could become the biggest and fastest selling console ever released by Nintendo by having enough stock that the scalpers cannot re sell their stock and still have every early adopter get their hands on one.
Maybe wishful thinking 🤔😂
Didn’t Nintendo technically say they’d make an announcement about it before the fiscal year ends though? Not actually release it per se. And seeing how Nintendo these days likes to hold off on announcing things until 2-3 months before release, I’d say April/May/June is likely if they announce it in March. Just depends on the timing of the announcement I guess.
It IS wishful thinking, and what this one man said from the podcast literally corroborates what Nintendo said. You’re acting like he’s “contradicting” them, meanwhile everything perfectly lines up.
Nintendo specifically said they would announce or unveil the Switch successor “within the fiscal year.” That means, until March 31, 2025, all they’re promising us is a teaser video within this time frame, rather like the October 2016 Switch tease. Considering the Switch launched five months after the 2016 teaser video, it is not unreasonable to assume they’d do the same for Switch 2.
And yes, I know “within the fiscal year” is vague and COULD technically mean sometime earlier than March 2025, but why give us that timeline to begin with? If they wanted to unveil it within this year, they would’ve specified “before the calendar year is over” or something along those lines.
When Nintendo initially said they would unveil the “NX” (the original Switch) in 2016, they kept their promise… and they didn’t do it at E3 2016 like everybody thought they would. They instead waited until nearly the end of 2016 to announce it. Again, not unreasonable to assume they’d do the same thing here, which is why they said “fiscal year” and not “2024” or “calendar year.”
I am being unfortunately reminded of the end of the Wii’s life, it feels like Switch is dying out here with outdated tech and not great first party support, will Nintendo be able to get people hyped about them again when they do finally announce and then launch Switch 2. I hope so, but I do think it’s got to be time for action soon.
What are you talking about… this bears absolutely NO resemblance to the end of the Wii lifecycle in the slightest.
The current Switch is still getting new games such as Mario & Luigi: Brothership, a new Zelda game, and Metroid Prime 4, not to mention the ground up remake of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (a game MANY have wanted a mere HD re-release of). The end of the Wii had… Zelda: Skyward Sword in 2011 and Mario Party 9 in 2012.
Furthermore, even with the Switch’s waning sales, they’re not waning nearly to the same degree the Wii’s sales were in 2011-2012… they were so bad in 2011, I remember there being reports of Nintendo losing $900 million dollars in one day from the poor Wii sales and the disappointing 3DS launch.
It sounds like you don’t remember anything in the slightest.
He needs to do his research more about tech companies that help other gaming manufacturers for their console machines.
Blacks.
Smart imo. Switch 2 has to have a great launch to succeed. This means plenty of units to avoid scarcity and a strong launch lineup of Switch 2 exclusives.
I will be this fiscal year, Nintendo already declared to their investors that it would come this fiscal year.
Once they said it was going to come out before April the switch sales fell off a cliff, they now need to release it to make the books add up before the fiscal year ends.
Otherwise they have made a huge mistake announcing it’s imminent arrival only to postpone it’s launch and lose all of the final years switch sales.
They said it would be announced this fiscal year.
No, you’re spreading misinformation. Nintendo did NOT declare that the Switch 2 would come out before the fiscal year, they only said they would ANNOUNCE it before the fiscal year is over.
Furthermore, they have absolutely no need to rush. Switch sales have dropped, but they’re not critically low. It’s still selling a lot better than the Wii and DS were in 2011, and they still have new exclusive Switch software that is still to be released.
Super Mario Bros isn’t 40 yet.
Lots of misinformation here, as usual:
-Nintendo never said it’d come this fiscal year. They’ll ANNOUNCE it before the end of this fiscal year. Completely different things.
-The Switch still has plenty of games coming to it. A new Zelda game, a new Mario & Luigi game, a new Mario Party game, even a port of DKC Returns. Metroid Prime 4 as well, though I suspect this one will be released for both Switches. Not to mention some third party support here and there, like Sonic x Shadow, Epic Mickey, the Yokaa Laylee remaster and so on. Oh, and there’s a Pokemon game which was already confirmed for Switch we know next to nothing about.
People are trying too hard to be funny with “Nintendoomed”, despite the console still going strong, on the way of becoming THE most successful console sales-wise at that.
Technically, this guy is right: I also can’t see the console coming out in 7 months when we don’t know anything about it… unless Nintendo does like the Switch i.e. teaser in September, presentation in January for a release in March but it would lead to the Christmas of the Switch so I don’t really believe in it
And if not people, stop talking about “switch 2” it doesn’t exist, stop believing that nintendo will release a simple technical evolution of their switch, they haven’t done it and they won’t do it; Do I need to remind you that the only time they did it was a bitter failure? (Wii U…)
The next machine will be a whole new family with similarities to their old consoles, but that’ll stop there.
NES> Snes
Gameboy > GBA
DS > 3DS
Aren’t these all Tech evolutions that did really well ?
Nintendo I suspect are being cautious to not clash with the announcement and release of a new Xbox/Playstation. Nintendo always like to go last…I also suspect Microsoft and Sony want to do just that to dampen Nintendo’s annnouncement, and Nintendo know it, so they will drag it out knowing it could hurt Sony and Microsoft but not themselves. They really can go whenever. There’s still an absolutel F-ton happening on the Switch.
I predict It will release november 16 2025 :)
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