As rumors continue to circulate about Nintendo’s Switch successor, one analyst has warned that we may be looking at a launch in the first part of 2025.
The Nintfinisho Switch 2, as it has been unofficially called, is getting closer: in May, Nintfinisho president Shuntaro Furukawa showed via Twitter that an official announcement about the company’s next console would be made at some point. of this fiscal year, which will end on March 31, 2025. With this in mind, there are about seven months at most before we know anything concrete about it, but reports recommend that its launch could also come very soon.
As Automaton reported (and Bloomberg’s Takashi Mochizuki highlighted), Japanese analyst Hideki Yasuda, who works for Toyo Securities, has published a report sharing his predictions (seemingly based on other reports) that Nintendo’s next console could launch in the first part of the year. At the most sensible of that, he suggests in his report that the price of it could reach $499 or less, so potentially the same value or less than the PS5 and Xbox Series X.
While not all of this data is confirmed, if Yasuda’s prediction about the “first part of 2025” is true, it’s worth thinking about how it might relate to the recent report from GamesIndustry. biz’s Microcast podcast, in which the online page’s admin Christopher Dring said that developers are said not to expect Switch 2 to launch until April. This, of course, isn’t concrete either, but if any of them are accurate, it suggests that the console’s launch could take place between April and June 2025.
We’ll have to see what Nintendo has to say, that announcement comes. Again, we know it can’t be long before we have a little more clarity, so now it’s just a waiting game.
While you’re here, don’t check out our roundup of upcoming Switch games for 2024 and beyond.
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