There is another curveball thrown in the plans of the successor of Nintendo Switch: according to Chris Dring of GamesIndustry.biz (via VGC), the Japanese gaming giant may not launch the next-gen console within Q1 2025 as rumors previously suggested.
Nintendo Switch 2 Delays?
According to Dring, none of the developers he has spoken to expects the console to be launching within this financial year; instead, they’ve been told “not to expect it in the [current] financial year.” For context, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa’s statement of the next generation Switch announcement within the current financial year means it should be announced before 31 March, 2025. There is a good chance the announcement may still happen, but the launch may be months away at that point.
Dring also pointed out the concern of Switch being launched too late, as the news cycle may end up clashing with one of the biggest release of the decade, Grand Theft Auto 6. “I don’t think any of us wants a late launch for Switch 2 because we all want a new Nintendo console, everyone gets very excited for it, and we don’t want that crunch of Grand Theft Auto 6 and Switch and all that kind of stuff on top of each other,” he continued.
Details of the Switch 2 remains scarce at this point, though we know that NVIDIA will once again be powering these consoles. It may use a small Ampere-based GPU that features 1,536 CUDA cores, paired with 8GB LPDDR5 memory that should make for a significant performance jump over the current generation, which is over 7 years old at this point.
Pokdepinion: Good things is worth the wait, perhaps?
