Nintendo to Announce Switch 2 Before April 2025, Nintendo Direct Set for June - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 07 May 2024 / 3,794 Views
Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa revealed the company will be officially announcing the Nintendo Switch successor in the current fiscal year, which ends on March 31, 2025.
"We will make an announcement about the successor to Nintendo Switch within this fiscal year," said Furukawa. "It will have been over nine years since we announced the existence of Nintendo Switch back in March 2015.
Furukawa added a Nintendo Direct will take place in June and focus on Switch games coming out in the second half of 2024. However, there will be no mention of the successor to the Switch during the showcase.
"We will be holding a Nintendo Direct this June regarding the Nintendo Switch software lineup for the latter half of 2024, but please be aware that there will be no mention of the Nintendo Switch successor during that presentation," he said.
This is Furukawa, President of Nintendo. We will make an announcement about the successor to Nintendo Switch within this fiscal year. It will have been over nine years since we announced the existence of Nintendo Switch back in March 2015. We will be holding a Nintendo Direct…
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If they do have an actually big title for the holiday (which isn't guaranteed) my bet would be on Prime 4. It has been in development for 5 years since the restart and other titles make too much sense to hold off on till the Switch 2.
A lot of big Nintendo games only get announced a few months before release so its not unusual to be in the dark of them at the start of the year.
Super Mario Wonder, their big game for Christmas 2023, was only announced in June 23.
Personnally, i would prefer if they would keep Metroid for the successor... It will def need the power boost and the other console would be only a few months away.
To second what xMetroid said, I agree that Prime 4 would be better suited as a launch title for the next system. Just imagine how good that game will look on a PS4-equivalent system...that would surely move units.
As far as how to help the Switch stay afloat? Price cut. Knock the original Switch model down to $200, Lite down to $150, and OLED $250. This would surely send sales figures to >5mil for the holiday season given we get some solid remakes/remasters (which rumors suggest this is all Nintendo has planned for the latter half of the year).
Remember its PS4 level only in terms of raw polygon and pixel pushing power. In ters of image quality, lighting and effects its more current gen with its RT hardware and DLSS.
My guess is an early 2025 announcement with a release late spring or early summer. I do not think they want the announcement before Christmas shopping this year.
Didn't they reveal Switch in October?
I think a spring release means they'll announce late this year. Better to get an awareness of a new platform out before Christmas otherwise people will spend their dollars elsewhere, including competitors. Maximising Switch sales for the holiday is not really the biggest priority.
New console or not, Nintendo will not want to risk taking a substantial drop in Christmas sales. If they announce before Christmas, fewer people will want to spend money on a Switch this Christmas and their sales will tank.
They'll either announce and release before Christmas or after so as to lessen the impact.
I have the impression that Switch 2 will not release before April 1, 2025, i.e. not in Fiscal Year 2025. Nintendo forecasted 13.5m Switches and none Switch 2's, unless they are included in the 13.5m but then Switch 2 wouldn't be a successor and would just be a heavily upgraded Switch 1, still belonging to the same generation (i.e. a Game Boy Color situation). But as the President Shuntaro Furukawa already used the word "successor", such a situation is not possible and at the same time Nintendo has no tradition of combining sales numbers of different hardware generations. Therefore, the forecasted 13.5m MUST be Switch 1's. To reach that number, I strongly think we will see some kind of a heavy hitter in the holidays season, combined with price cuts and bundles.
Metroid Prime 4 please!!
There are 2 options: announcement in October '24 and release in March '25 or announcement in March '25 and release in October '25.
I think the former is more likely.
Please don't be underpowered
To everyone who believed it would be announced this year, again.... don't let your personally feelings or desires cloud logical judgment. The switch is still selling really well.
Alright!! I'm looking forward to the next Nintendo console! Thinking about that, I wonder if Metroid Prime 4 is going to be released on both the Switch and their next console.
I'm thinking we'll see a presentation in January and release in March like we did for the Switch.
