Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa officially acknowledged Nintendo is making a Switch successor — called Switch 2 by many, albeit not by Nintendo — in a message coinciding with the company’s yearly financial results. Yes, we all knew the Nintendo Switch successor was coming, but Nintendo had said nothing about the console ahead of Furukawa’s message.
“This is Furukawa, President of Nintendo,” Furukawa said in the message posted to X. “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 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.”
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
Nintendo’s fiscal year ended in late March, so the timeline for a Switch 2 announcement would be within a year from that time — before March 31, 2025. Nintendo confirmed via Furukawa’s announcement that a Nintendo Direct is scheduled for June, but that the company won’t talk about the new console there; that event will be squarely focused on Nintendo Switch games expected out in the second half of 2024.
Though Nintendo’s said very little about the console, news has been steadily leaking about it for the past few months. The latest news is that the Switch’s Joy-Con controllers will attach with magnets instead of the original console’s sliding rails. According to a few reports, the Joy-Cons will be larger and feature more buttons, while the Switch 2 will have an 8-inch screen. The console is expected to be backward compatible with Nintendo Switch games and peripherals.
If you’re looking for more, here’s where you can find everything we know about Nintendo’s next-generation console.
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