The rest is becoming clearer for Nintendo. The Japanese console manufacturer announced on Tuesday that information regarding the highly anticipated successor to its more than seven-year-old Switch console will be communicated by the end of March 2025. “We will make an announcement regarding the successor to the Nintendo Switch during this fiscal year”, which ends on March 31, 2025, wrote on X its president Shuntaro Furukawa.
However, he tempered expectations by adding that communication on upcoming Nintendo games in June would make “no mention” of the new console. These announcements should focus, as is traditional at this time of year, on the games that will be released by the end of the year – and, therefore, on the end of life of the first Switch of the name .
The end of rumors
The ball of rumors – never confirmed by Nintendo – which have been building pressure around the Switch’s successor for several years now, gave way to the disappointment of investors in mid-February when several media outlets claimed that the launch, hoped for this year, could be postponed to 2025. The Nintendo title, which has been soaring since the beginning of January in the face of expectations for a “Switch 2” this year, had fallen 13% since the publication of this press information.
Beyond a few poorly sourced rumors on social networks, nothing indicates what this console could look like, and the new features it could include. It could remain in the spirit of its predecessor, given the success of the Switch, sold 140 million copies.