Nintendo is much more patient about the loss of itsmuch - hyped Nintendo Switch 2than consumers are . The Japanese game monolith reportedly plans to hold the cabinet back until April or May next twelvemonth , after the remnant of the company ’s fiscal year . It ’s a few more month than the company previously proposed , but two months feels like a lifetime for those anticipating Nintendo ’s first major ironware release in over seven years .
In May , Nintendo finally confirmed that the Nintendo Switch 2 isreal . The Japanese game behemoth said it planned to release the console table this financial year . However , all signs pointed to the company waiting until March — the very end of the fiscal year — before it showed off its new hardware .
Now come the bad news . GamesIndustry.biz mind Chris Dring said on theoutlet ’s latest podcast(viaVGC ) that developer do not wait the console to launch in March . The industry insider said it was n’t in Nintendo ’s playbook to announce a cabinet in its fiscal statements and then release it the same twelvemonth .
Rumors hint the next Switch console will be backwards compatible, but Nintendo’s not offering us many official hints.Photo: Kyle Barr / Gizmodo
“ I ’m go to say now , that console is not coming out before this fiscal year , ” Dring say on the podcast , transcribe by Gizmodo . “ No developer I ’ve spoken to expects it to be launching in the financial year . They ’ve been told not to bear it in the financial year . ”
Dring further arrogate that insiders hope the console will be out in April or May next year , but either way , it will likely be early on into 2025 rather than subsequently . In aninterview , Publisher Take - Two CEOStrauss Zelnickhammered the point thatGrand Theft Auto 6will hit storage shelves in the latter half of 2025 . Nintendo likely does n’t want to vie with that titan of a game , even if it ’s still unclear if the sequel Switch will get the next GTA on release twenty-four hours .
Nintendo promised its shareholdersthat it wasplanning to make enough Switch 2sso the scalpers wouldn’tend up with all the stock . Perhaps this April or May day of the month was always the architectural plan , and Nintendo is planning to ramp up production before we get into spring 2025 . Nintendo likes to have a game that span consoles on launch date like it previously did withLegend of Zelda : Breath of the Wild . That game was usable on both Wii U and Nintendo Switch on launching . Nintendo ’s bridge game could beMetroid Prime 4 : Beyondwith its anticipated 2025 waiver day of the month , but we ’ll have to look and see if the title can launch in clock time for the new cabinet .
In its first - quarterearnings reportpublished in the beginning this calendar month , Nintendo declared it has sell 143.42 million Nintendo Switch consoles in its lifetime . The fellowship skip to sell another 13.5 million units this year , even as sales continue to worsen year - over - year as we head into 2025 . It ’s getting hard and harder to marketthe original Switchwhen so many consumers are quick to bite through chain of mountains radio link fencing and surprise a factory to get their hands on Nintendo ’s next portable console .
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