Should I Buy A Switch 2 in 2025?

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It’s (probably) almost here! The successor to the mighty Nintendo Switch will be in hands within the next six months – providing of course that Nintendo ever decide to announce it.

Excuse the bitterness. I’ve spent the last three years recommending the Switch, but with the caveat that a new one is on the horizon. We’ve seen pictures of it (mostly from Chinese accessory makers, such as the one above), we’ve got details of the hardware inside, we even have a rough idea of when it will be released. One person claims to have seen a box.

And yet Nintendo are staying largely tight-lipped. They will announce it on their own terms, and at this rate it’ll probably be after we’ve all already bought one.

I’ll start this piece with one of the few definitive statements we can give: don’t buy a Nintendo Switch. It’s still a fine little device, albeit one that has been feeling a bit tired for at least a couple of years. With the release of a new Switch, the old one will either drop in value or be made irrelevant through price or software. Kids may still get a lot of use out of them – it has a hell of a back catalogue – but adults should wait. You’ll get a bargain or, better yet, a brand new console at launch.

So is the Switch 2 worth a purchase is 2025? That answer is much harder to give.

The Switch 2 is a true successor to Nintendo’s current console. It looks the same. It will feel the same. But looks can be deceiving.

This is because it’s getting a fairly decent bump in power, made better by upscaling tech from Nvidia. This enables lower resolution images to look as sharp as higher resolution ones, and it’s incredible on PC. Rumours are that it will play games like Final Fantasy 7: Remake – a PS4 game – perfectly decently.

That sounds like a loaded statement. It isn’t. If something like Final Fantasy Remake can run on the Switch 2, there isn’t going to be much that can’t scale down to it. For the first time in a long time, Nintendo-only gamers should be well served by third