Nintendo finally confirms the Switch 2 is on the way
techcrunch.comIn the most anticlimactic way possible, Nintendo on Tuesday confirmed years of rumors: the Nintendo Switch 2 console is on the way.
“We will make an announcement about the successor to Nintendo Switch within this fiscal year,” wrote Shuntaro Furukawa, the president of Nintendo, on X.
This wasn’t the actual announcement of the console, mind. Rather, Furukawa wanted to warn users not to expect the actual announcement in next month’s Nintendo Direct livestream.
“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,” the post reads.
Nintendo’s fiscal year ends in March, which means we might have to wait until Spring 2025 to learn what’s next for the Switch, released nine years ago.
<p lang=«en» dir=«ltr» xml:lang=«en»>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…— 任天堂株式会社（企業広報・IR） (@NintendoCoLtd) May 7, 2024
Launched in 2015, the Nintendo Switch was a resounding success for the Japanese gaming company. To date, Nintendo has sold over 141 million units, making the Switch the third best-selling console of all time, trailing only behind the Nintendo DS and the PlayStation 2.
The Switch became so popular because it was the first commercially successful gaming hardware that could be played both as a handheld device and as a desktop console connected to an external display. The coincidental release of “Animal Crossing: New Horizons” at the beginning of global coronavirus lockdowns was also a boon for Nintendo. Between March and November 2020, Nintendo sold 12 million Switch consoles, which was a 73% increase compared to the same period a year earlier. The company even had to
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