Rumor: Nintendo Switch 2 to Release in March 2025 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 04 January 2025 / 4,544 Views
There is a new rumor going around claiming Nintendo will reveal the Nintendo Switch 2 in January 2025 and the console will launch in March 2025.
The rumors come from Chinese forum Weibo and the Famiboards gaming forum, and were posted on the Nintendo Prime YouTube channel.
Not much is known about the successor to the Nintendo Switch, however, Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa did recently reveal the console will be backwards compatible with Nintendo Switch games and have Nintendo Switch Online.
Nintendo does plan on announcing the Switch 2 in the current fiscal year, which ends on March 31, 2025.
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that feels closer to the reveal date.
i will be extremely confident in saying that this will not happen. Idk what bets you wanna place, this "rumor" has a literal zero percent chance of being true. Nintendo struggled to output 3mil NSW units between October 2016 and March 2017. How could they possible manufacture >5mil in half the time?? Not to mention there was a far more reputable leak which came out recently stating that NSW2 will not be releasing prior to Xenoblade Chronicles X.
I generally agree. The rumor may be wrong. However why do you think they should start manufacturing the units the moment they announce the device ? They could already have started doing since the summer for example, or something like last month. They don't need to announce something to start manufacturing it.
It breaks a lot of precedent to begin manufacturing more than a few weeks prior to reveal:
-> PS5 (5-29-2020 Mass production was revealed to have begun) (6-11-2020 reveal)
-> XBSX (7-3-2020 Earliest manufactured XBSX reported) (12-9-2019 reveal)
-> NSW (11-2016 mass production is said to have begun) (10-20-2016 reveal)
-> 3DS, Wii U, PS4, PSVita were all revealed several months prior to beginning of mass production (reportedly).
Knowing Nintendo, I feel very confident in saying that they don’t want any leaks coming out. I could be wrong…but it would be very surprising if they chose to take the risk.
there were some leaks of prototype device ..
The one back in October/September? That wasn't from a production line, but from an accessory developer. I believe the prototype system had been sent out as far back as December 2023...unless you're talking about something else? Not fully in the loop atm lol.
That was my guess, though it is probably wrong.
We'll know when we get there.
It'd make sense. That'd make it's release date pretty much 8 years after it's predecessor.
Probably the same day as Xenoblade Chronicles X, which may have Switch 2 functionality. It seemed like an oddly specific date for a game releasing 5 months away.
@jvmkdg Seems realistic. Thats the earliest date we can expect the new Handheld. Like i predicted since 2019.
But you might be right. Could even launch later. Right now i expect a january teaser and a march showcase with a possible release in may- july. But like i said, march 2025 could be the earliest release date possible.
January reveal has been the obvious play for a long long time. Though I doubt March launch as that is so soon afterwards. You want to give some time to build up hype, let people save up money, etc. Of course sure they want to get it out as soon as possible cuz Switch ain't the sales beast it used to be, but still I'm sure they want more than two months between reveal and launch.
I'm still sticking to my prediction that I've been saying since we found out earlier this year that it got delayed to 2025: Jan reveal, Feb/March in-depth details on games and hardware, May/June launch.
So annoucement in January and release in march? just like the Switch.
I can see that
I am ready to bet my best part of my body and my head on the fact that the switch sucessor whatever it will be called won't be released before march 06, 2025!!
it's very unlikely. its probably a false rumor. if someone found a website that bets on this dates let me know i want to bet against it and make money to buy the console later in June when it released
they neeed to announce in February and launch in JMay.
That would be a slap in the face for all people who bought a Switch during the holidays... I don't see an announcement and release within a couple of weeks. I think the industry has learned from the Sega Saturn.
Seems absurd. Having only two months of marketing? How many dev kits do they even have out there? Considering how little we know about this machine, it seems unlikely. Usually we are flooded with leaks and rumours this close to a launch.
Also they would not be able to manufacture that many consoles in that short a time. But maybe they are not planning to have a lot available at launch? Seems like a terrible strategy.
reveal in January so it doesn't hurt holiday sales of original
I don't think they will cannibalize original Switch games coming out that month like this. I doubt it.
It's probably false. Unless Nintendo announces it in January and releases it in March, but I think that's very unlikely. I'm more likely to see an announcement in March and a release in May or June.
I was thinking April. And I always based that on Nintendo not raising their investors guidance for profits/revenue for the fiscal year so far, which would include that final quarter of Jan-Mar. I was thinking Jan announcement, and early April release (like that very first Sunday in April).
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