Gaming Insiders Think A Switch 2 Announcement Is Imminent

Video Games

Sep 7

Nintendo’s Switch console is not far behind the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo DS as the best-selling console of all time…and still producing games. Despite all that, there have been rumors floating around for months now about the release date of the Switch 2, Nintendo’s follow-up to the Switch.

There’s been no official confirmation about a release date, nor a confirmation on if it will even be called the Switch 2. The only thing confirmed is that Nintendo has been tight-lipped on the next console…but they have said it’s coming.

Just the other day, however, rumor mills have been on overdrive regarding a possible September event to reveal the new console. Kotaku published a piece collecting many of the X posts from industry insiders and players that seem to think something is going on, and that Nintendo is planning on a reveal this month.

Several posts on X from these insiders suggest that Nintendo has moved some announcements around to make way for a big, unnamed announcement this month. They couple that with the pattern of the Switch’s original launch and reveals and they seem to fit the mold.

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Another apparent sign comes from those monitoring the manufacturing and business partners of Nintendo. Dave Gibson, a senior analyst at MST Financial, noticed that a spike in spending on production equipment by Nintendo assembler Hosiden. He also added that he suspects a September announcement and a March 2025 release.

One of the other rumors that coincides with the suspicion of a September announcement surrounds the question of backward compatibility. An industry insider by the name of NateTheHate confidently claims there will be backward compatibility, done so in a repost of Gibson’s statements. It’s long been speculated that it would be a feature of the next console, especially since Doug Bowser, President of Nintendo of America and no relation to the Mario baddie, potentially hinted at the feature when he said they planned to make the transition to the next console as smooth as possible, hence the creation of Nintendo accounts.

The Switch launched in March of 2017, and the lack of any big, first-party games suggests that it’s reaching the end of its life cycle, and the next one is imminent. Stay tuned.

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