While rumors had been floating about rampantly as to the future plans of Nintendo, the President of the company, Shuntaro Furukawa, made a brief statement confirming that Nintendo is indeed working on a successor to the Nintendo Switch. Capping off Nintendo's quarterly financial report was an announcement that the unveiling of Nintendo's follow-up to the Switch would happen before the end of this fiscal year (March 2025). In the same message, Furukawa also announced that a Nintendo Direct is on the way sometime in June--though it will focus solely on latter-half 2024 Nintendo Switch titles, and will not feature any information regarding the successor system.

Current rumor reports state that a "Nintendo Switch 2" system was scheduled to be released around holiday 2024, though the hardware was delayed internally, to make sure that the upcoming system had as many quality launch titles as possible. Bloomberg has reported that Nintendo has been supplied with a notable amount of 8-inch Foxconn LCD screens, implying that the new Nintendo hardware may be very similar to the Nintendo Switch.

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

 

[Bladexdsl]

I wonder what feature title(s) will go along with its debut. Another Zelda?

YESSSSSSS maybe OOA/OOS Remakes

or another PORT

 

[HermesDidNothingWrong]

or another PORT

Twilight Princess Super HD soon

 

[bonkmaykr]

The Switch was such a smash-hit and a "okay, this is it" moment for a lot of people that the idea of a new Nintendo console already is kind of unbelievable. 7 years flew by like nothing.

Not like I care anymore lol. Switch killed nintendo for me. Lame ass handheld.

 

[gnmmarechal]

Time for the Temp to run a Switch 2 giveaway and I win it again?

 

[WindMageVaati]

Time for the Temp to run a Switch 2 giveaway and I win it again?

Apart from the you winning part, that sounds great. A raffle perhaps.

 

[gnmmarechal]

Apart from the you winning part, that sounds great. A raffle perhaps.

No, I quite like the winning part

 

[xpoverzion]

I won't be buying it. The Switch was the most regrettable console purchase I have ever made. It was woefully under powered when it came out, and there are hardly any good AAA exclusive titles for it 7 years later. So yeah, not planning on buying another Nintendo product for a long time. Maybe pick one up on sale years after it's release, and only if it has been jailbroken.

 

[Trojaner]

Switch 2 Emulator ETA WHEN?
So we can play Backups on Day 1.

 

[MayorBryce]

Switch 2 Emulator ETA WHEN?
So we can play Backups on Day 1.

Woah, hold it there, buddy! To play your backups legally on your computer, we'll need to have...
1. Cracked Sw2tch security.
2. Developed homebrew to dump the games.
3. Created an emulator that can play the games in a playable state.
4. Gotten PC hardware that's powerful enough to emulate it (because the rumors say it'll be comparable to an Xbox One, and I don't see any emulators for that console).
5. Be patient enough to get this stuff (because there's no way all this will happen for years).

 

[Guacaholey]

good everyone can shut the fuck up with the fake switch 2 posts now

They won't though. Bloomberg has been doing this since like 2 years after the Switch launched. We do finally have confirmation of a successor coming soon, but were probably gonna see fake leaks now

Post automatically merged: May 18, 2024

Woah, hold it there, buddy! To play your backups legally on your computer, we'll need to have...
1. Cracked Sw2tch security.
2. Developed homebrew to dump the games.
3. Created an emulator that can play the games in a playable state.
4. Gotten PC hardware that's powerful enough to emulate it (because the rumors say it'll be comparable to an Xbox One, and I don't see any emulators for that console).
5. Be patient enough to get this stuff (because there's no way all this will happen for years).

If the PS4/Xbox One power is accurate it'll probably be harder to emulate because it's a different instruction set whereas the Xbox One and PS4 are custom x86 chips.

 

[SIMOMEGA]

good everyone can shut the fuck up with the fake switch 2 posts now

I mean, were they even fake in the 1° place lol? I mean sure maybe accurate reports of the new switchs hardware were fake, but it was obvious that an eventual switch sequel was in the works, it was just irrealistic to expect it to be rumor-accurate, as with all rumors, unless they camesz from a reputable and trusted source or smthszh like thatsz.

Post automatically merged: May 19, 2024

Feels like they want to repeat the Switch's reveal and release timing.

• Reveal on late October-November 2024.
• Release date on late March-April 2025, beginning of their next fiscal year

Is that supposed to be good in terms of business or smth like that?

 

[Metoroid0]

yay.... but its a bit to late, i bought steam deck oled and im not considering switch 2.
no gimmick can change my mind, im tired of nintendo and their bs and their underpowered systems.

 

[Julie_Pilgrim]

Are you kidding? This will only make them worse.

switch 2 will suck you off while gaming and also do your laundry and taxes for you

 

[WindMageVaati]

switch 2 will suck you off while gaming and also do your laundry and taxes for you

Doing my laundry P console.

 

[Lucky01]

I would love 4K video output but I don't think that will ever happen.

 

[ZeroT21]

You know, I still remember Metroid Prime 4 being teased for the switch in 2017, so I have 0 faith in this Nintendo horseshit

 

[CaptainHIT]

If I'd be Nintendo, I'd throw in BotW and TotK to a single game (which started as a DLC in mind already), put a few extra goodies, leave the divine beasts shattered after the earthquake, put a playable part and scenes between the two games, and sell it for the price of one or even 5%-10% less. That would be fucking crazy, sell the new system like crazy, sell the game like crazy, and the real thing is: it really would sell really like hell.

 

[L-Star]

About time! I hope it can be as big of a jump as the original switch was

 

[WindMageVaati]

If I'd be Nintendo, I'd throw in BotW and TotK to a single game (which started as a DLC in mind already), put a few extra goodies, leave the divine beasts shattered after the earthquake, put a playable part and scenes between the two games, and sell it for the price of one or even 5%-10% less. That would be fucking crazy, sell the new system like crazy, sell the game like crazy, and the real thing is: it really would sell really like hell.

YEAHHHH

 

[RedColoredStars]

Time for the Temp to run a Switch 2 giveaway and I win it again?

So when was the first Switch 2 giveaway that you won? lol

there are hardly any good AAA exclusive titles for it 7 years later

That has to be one of the biggest crocks of shit I've read for a while. Even some of the stuff in the political section doesn't have anything on this bs.