If you like Nintendo consoles, there’s good news: Nintendo Switch 2 will be announced in fiscal year 2024.
Nintendo decided to come to the fore to talk about nintendo switch 2 or whatever the “Nintendo Switch successor” is being called after all the rumors, leaks and information published these weeks, such as our exclusive information about its dimensions or the magnetic system of its joysticks.
In an official statement via X, Furukawa, President of Nintendo, confirmed that They will make “an announcement about a successor to the Nintendo Switch this fiscal year.”. This will be the first announcement of a new Nintendo console since the Switch was unveiled in March 2015, 9 years ago.
On what day will Nintendo Switch 2 be announced? (or what is the new Nintendo console actually called? Well, according to this statement, before the end of the current fiscal year, that is, at some point from May 2024 to March 31, 2025since Japan’s fiscal year starts in April and ends in March of the following year, that is, Japan’s fiscal year 2024 runs from April 2024 to March 2025.
Of course, Big N itself has already announced that this announcement will not happen during the next Nintendo Direct, which will take place next June, so we can cut it as little as possible this time period is from July 2024 to March 2025.
A Nintendo Direct will be held in June, dedicated to games for Nintendo Switch.
In the same post, Furukawa also confirmed that Next June, “we will be holding a Nintendo Direct on the Nintendo Switch release lineup for the second half of 2024.” in which they will focus on the video games coming to their current console in the final months of the year.
What do we know about Nintendo Switch 2 so far?
Taking advantage of the fact that Nintendo has officially announced that the announcement of the successor to the Nintendo Switch will take place in the coming months, we are going to do a short review. everything that is known about the Switch 2 so far, or rather the most repeated information, leaks and rumors about it.
At Vandal, we have already been able to confirm from our sources that the size of the console will be larger and the Joy-Con system will change to magnetic. On the other hand, the accessory manufacturer Mobapad also points out Vandal’s information and also guarantees that The screen will be 8 inches (one larger than the original Switch) with a resolution of 1080p in handheld mode, and will reach 4K in docked mode.
The ability to achieve these resolutions and provide a smooth gaming experience will come from NVIDIA’s new SOC, which will use Ampere RTX 30 series architecture In addition to compatibility with the famous DLSS texture scaling and anti-aliasing system, which will appear in the Switch successor to improve game performance at the lowest possible cost on a technical level. Additionally, this new “Switch 2” will be fully backwards compatible.