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With CES 2025 at last in the rearview , it ’s time to move on to the next round of golf of big hardware announcements . Rumors have come forth over the last few weeks , pointing to an imminent announcement for the next generation of Nintendo ’s wildly successful hybrid Switch console .
In special , tidings from manufacture stalwartEurogamer(among others ) peg a January 16 annunciation — that is to say , Thursday . If indeed the bad reveal is come this workweek , it points to a more incremental announcement . The company will likely dole out selective information one Nintendo Direct at a time rather than one , big keynote with specs , availableness , and launch titles .
We do have sex for certain that the company had its sights localise on a Q1 announcement for the Switch 2 — specifically , before the end of March 2025 . One other key morsel confirmed by Nintendo is the equipment ’s feebleminded compatibility with its harbinger . That ’s good newsworthiness for the 150 million or so who purchased the first Switch .
The large inquiry at the moment is how big of an upgrade we ’re ultimately talking about here . Nintendo ’s console table gens have mostly repoint to bragging departures for every subsequent coevals . With few exceptions — like the ill - fated Wii U — things have been far less straight than , say , Sony ’s PlayStation .
It ’s reasonable to expect that the Switch 2 will be an evolution of the existing product , rather than a meaningful departure . After all , Nintendo spent some time in the wilderness prior to the Switch ’s March 2017 launch . The exchangeable form factor and some in truth fantabulous titles were precisely what the party needed to reestablish itself in a dramatically different gaming landscape after the Wii U ’s stumbles .
There ’s no uncertainty the new console will good the original specs , but it ’s also significant to peevishness expectation , given Nintendo ’s history . The days of going toe - to - toe with contender on elements like GPU are decades in the company ’s past .
Other rumor are just that : charismatic Joy - Cons and a parachuting in screen sizing to eight inches up from six on the classic Switch and seven on the Switch OLED , which arrived toward the goal of 2021 . Between that console raise and the portable - only , budget - tending modeling that Nintendo introduced with the Switch Lite in 2019 , there have been upgrades along the agency .
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[ Nintendo Switch 2 not project ]
