Nintendo Switch 2 reveal is coming this fiscal yr, however not at Nintendo Direct in June

Nintendo has confirmed that the Nintendo Switch 2 reveal will happen this fiscal yr, however set expectations forward of June’s Nintendo Direct by stating that this stream is not going to function the subsequent era console.

Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa took to Twitter to make the clarifying assertion:

“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 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.”

It’s clearly possible that among the video games set to function within the Summer time Sport Fest adjoining stream shall be Nintendo Switch 2 launch video games or enhanced for the brand new console, however Nintendo received’t be focussing on the upcoming {hardware}.

The newest reporting means that Nintendo has pushed back the Nintendo Switch successor from a 2024 launch to Q1 2025, which might match how the Nintendo Switch launched again in early 2017, however imply that this era has lasted a shocking eight years for Nintendo, contemplating the underpowered cell chipset within the hybrid console.

Whereas we count on that the corporate will persist with the identical general idea for the Nintendo Switch 2 (or no matter it’s referred to as), of getting a pill with detachable controllers that may be docked for TV play, we don’t know if there shall be full or partial backward compatibility to the Switch’s huge library of video games – Nintendo has seemingly acknowledged that this might be fairly necessary, at the very least. Moreover, whereas Microsoft and Sony each had cross-generational recreation releases by the primary for years of the Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 life cycle, it’s not identified if Nintendo will minimize the outgoing era free fully, even when they’ve a monitor document of cross-gen launch titles like The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess throughout GameCube and Wii, and Breath of the Wild throughout Wii U and Switch.