IN May the internet was broken after Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa officially announced a successor to the Nintendo Switch. In a tweet, Furukawa-san revealed that the console people

If that prediction is on the mark, fans now face having to wait until January at the earliest for a Switch 2 announcement. As for a release date, the console is not expected to launch during Nintendo's current financial year, so April 2025 at the earliest.

Nintendo first announced the new Switch 2 feature at its Corporate Management Policy Briefing, as one does, and then tweeted out confirmation of the fact that the new console will be backward compatible with the games from the original one: “This is Furukawa.