New Report Claims Switch 2 Releases in March 2025 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 March 2024 / 3,314 Views
There were recent rumors claiming Nintendo is now aiming to release the successor the Nintendo Switch in Q1 2025 with one source saying the release window is so Nintendo could prepare a stronger first-party line-up for the console.
Nikkei is now reporting Nintendo will launch the Nintendo Switch 2 in March 2025. The report claims Nintendo "prioritized securing initial stock of successor machines and the lineup of popular software at the time of release."
Nintendo is also working on "measures to prevent resale" and in an attempt to stop scalpers.
Nikkei did state the release date for the Switch 2 could happen after March 2025. This depends on the amount of stock available and how much software is ready to go.
Nintendo's share price did fall 8.8 percent following reports of the Switch 2 being pushed back to early 2025.
Nintendo has shipped 139.36 million Switch consoles as of December 31, 2023, while 1,200.10 million Switch games have been shipped lifetime. The Switch is the third best-selling video game console of all time.
Thanks, The Verge.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Common sense tells us that.
BUT I WANT IT NOW!!! ;_;
Me too!
Me 3!
Good now make us a New F-Zero
I'm gonna take a wildly specific yet educated and experienced guess;
it'll be Friday the 7th, 14th, 21st or 28th of March 2025 ;)
That's four guesses.
I didn't realised I would get caught. I accidently cheated when I left the action-replay disc in the GameCube XD
8 year long generation for the Switch. Is this Nintendo's longest ever generation?
It's their longest home console generation, previous longest gap was NES to SNES at 7 years. It's only their 2nd longest handheld generation though, longest is Gameboy which was on the market for 9 years before Gameboy Color released.
While I personally agree that the Gameboy Color was a next gen Gameboy and not a just a mid-gen refresh like Nintendo makes it out to be. The Gameboy Color by Nintendo was considered to be just a mid-gen interation and not a new gen, so in reality the Gameboy didn't receive a successor until 12 years after it launched when the GBA released, making it the video game console with the longest lifespan without a successor.
Well the GBC is just a GB with slightly better specs and the ability to play games in color. So it really isn't a successor. A lot of GBC games actually do play in a GB. For example Pokemon Gold/Silver will play in a GB, but Crystal won't. You can tell by the cart.
Nope. Game Boy to Game Boy Color was longer. And if you don't count GBC, Game Boy Advance took about 12 years after the Game Boy.
8 years exactly would be on par with Microsoft's longest gen, 2005 to 2013.
8 years is more than Sony or Sega ever had. And even Atari 5200 was sandwiched between 2600 and 7800.
This is quite an achievement for Nintendo, if Switch will sell almost twice as much as Xbox 360 within the same time frame. Never thought about that before. Thanks!
It's impossible to compare gens apples to apples without taking into consideration the size of the industry. How many people buy games/consoles today is far more than there was in 1984, 94, 04 etc. So if you want to compare, you have to do a per-capita thing to get the true picture. Raw numbers don't work.
Nintendo simultaneously going for the PS2 lol. An extra year of the Switch being Nintendo's only console on the market should get it past that finish line!
Do you think they (Sony) would if Nintendo prematurely claimed the best console ever title? Sony comes out and says "well actually we shipped 15x.xx million PS2 consoles back in the day" haha
I would love for Sony to do that. However, I'm not counting on it. Though, I do think IF the PS2 hit 160M they would have announced that. Doing some math there is a range of what the PS2 most likely sold, which we have it at the lower end.
Noooo! This better be false, Nintendo need to release it this holiday!!
I like the release window. Make it easier to get one outside the Holiday ;)
I wonder what they're trying to do to prevent scalpers.
Kinda related, do we think that the rumor regarding Nintendo wanting to ship 10m successor units before the end of the FY is still in effect?
If so then, that would definitely guarantee that scalpers won't "win".
We'll never know for certain as only Nintendo are in a place to confirm their specific intentions, but whilst the reports from multiple reputable sources about the delay to March 2025 to ensure sufficient supply might seem to tie into that rumour, 10 million units for a whole financial year, even the 1st one is on the low side imo. Switch did 17.79, Wii was 20.14 (although that has an extra month's figures in it)
Agreed but if the Successor releases before Mar 31, then 10m sounds like a lot for a single month.
Thats why i dont put any stock in that rumour as on close scrutiny it doesnt make sense for a March 2025 launch. Even if said figure was a reference to the 25/26 financial year, 10 million would be on the low side.
Enough supply wil only help to an extent. After all, some scalpers have no problems spending thousands of dollars to get as many units as they can.
The best option is to prevent anyone from being able to buy more than two or three consoles, but to make that happen Nintendo would need the cooperation of every major store and a lot of shared information, and that last part may be ilegal.
Why would it be illegal? I dont know the specific rules of production, distribution, and sales.
First of all, I said that it "may" be ilegal. I don't know if it really it. And I said it because the best solution would be for all the stores to send to Nintendo the indo of those that have pre-ordered the console, so they could check if there's someone that has tried to avoid the 2-3 units per person by going to different stores. That data would be personal information that I doubt stores can share with suppliers like Nintendo without violating consumer rights.
That makes sense. Personally, I think it would be up to the store to ensure the probable 2-3 limit. Because the stores have access to the data themselves. It sounds like a difficult thing to enforce.
Agreed. It wouldnt be something that Nintendo got involved with directly themselves. The extent of their involvement would be plenty of supply. It would be up to individual chains to put in place any anti-scalper practices. Eventualy with plenty of supply being shipped the scalpers resources would be overcome and there simply wouldnt be any profit to be made from scalping.
Whenever their launch games are ready for it. They don't want to release it with a few games.
Sounds about right to me.
