It’s a new year, and we’re still speculating about a new Switch
If you’ve been paying attention to games long enough, not even in the month-to-month big releases but the day-to-day news mill, you’ve seen stories about the theorized Nintendo Switch 2. This informal moniker has become one of the biggest question marks dangling over 2024.
Days into the new year, and even before the calendar flipped over, headlines with rumors, speculation, and discussion popped up everywhere. Where is the Nintendo Switch 2? What is it? When could it arrive?
It’s really hard not to feel like we’ve been here before. I, myself, have done my fair share of reporting on and speculating about a new Switch. Before it was Switch 2, it was a Switch Pro. We’re closing in on seven years of the Nintendo Switch, and fans are wondering where its successor is.
Frankly, and I know I’m just laying out a rake to step on here, this is the most likely year yet that we’ll see a Switch successor. As you’ll read on down below, all signs are pointing that way, though predicting Nintendo’s next move has always been a tricky target. More than anything, it feels like the collective speculation and curiosity about the next Nintendo console boil over, to the point that the ghost of ’90s cheat cartridges has risen from the grave to add fuel to the fire.
Yes, that GameShark. The cheat machine you bought so you could mess with your Pokémon files is now back as “AI Shark,” an AI-powered help engine. Apparently, rather than cheat tools that manipulate hardware, AI Shark “focuses on aiding individuals in improving their gameplay over time.”
Look, does that sound like a computer that will tell you to just parry? A little bit, yeah. But the revived corpse of GameShark is somehow not the big news. Rather, it’s a note about the AI Shark’s
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