According to the hottest rumors, the release of Nintendo Switch 2 has been delayed until 2025

According to a new rumor, the release of Nintendo Switch 2 would be delayed until 2025: it will follow the strategy of the first Nintendo Switch, which was released around March 2025. According to VGC, third-party companies have already been informed of this delay.

That a successor to the Nintendo Switch will be released this year was, until a few hours ago, an assumption shared by all media and video game “insiders”, based more on the expectation that the Switch had already completed the cycle, but with little evidence. .

Suddenly, in the same week that Xbox confirmed that exclusive games would be multiplatform, and in which no Nintendo Directs were exactly held, a rumor spreads that its launch it will be at the beginning of 2025.

The Brazilian journalist was the first to raise his hand Pedro Enrique Lutti Lippewhich, according to five different sources (from three continents), agree that the Switch 2 will launch in 2025.

It didn’t take them long to get on this ship. Andy Robinson VGC, saying something similar: two sources told him today that Switch 2 is internally delayed until 2025..

VGC later added that Nintendo recently informed several third-party studios that the console would release in early 2025..

“According to sources, third-party gaming companies were recently informed of an internal delay in Nintendo’s next-gen release schedule from late 2024 to early next year.

An editorial source suggested that the delay was caused by the fact that Nintendo could prepare more powerful proprietary software for the console.“

Eurogamer also joins the same rumors, having learned that the console’s release has been delayed until early 2025.

Switch 2 could follow Switch’s 2025 schedule

If this were true and Nintendo slightly delayed the launch of its new console from late 2024 to early 2025, the situation in 2017 would be repeated.

The console will almost certainly come out until April 2025to enter the next financial year (April 2024 to March 2025).

Thus, both Nintendo and other studios would receive more time to prepare the launch schedule new console and produce enough units to meet demand. Games like 3D Mario and Metroid Prime 4 are rumored to be coming to the Switch 2.

The Christmas campaign may be weaker than usual. Nintendo without launching a new console, but sales switchDespite the recession, they are still very high. But this is just speculation for now…