News Nintendo says Switch 2 details coming before March 2025 — seven years after the original version was released

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Nintendo President Furukawa confirms that the Switch 2 is coming this fiscal year.

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[YouFilthyHippo]

Most rumours point to a GTX 780 (2013) equivalent performance, and.... this is Nintendo talking here.... So I expect 8GB Unified. So regular switch games might finally be playable at respectable framerates. Other than that, I don't hold out much hope. It's sad to see the biggest IP in the gaming industry subjected to hardware that's 12 years old hardware at release, nevermind the fact that it has to last 7 years. They will be reliant on DLSS to save face, and of course that looks horrible compared to native. The most comical thing would be to see Nintendo say 4K capable. It's fine. I'll just wait for an emulator before I try and play switch 2 games. I'm not interested in 720p slideshows

 

[Deleted member 2731765]

Nintendo President Furukawa confirms that the Switch 2 is coming this fiscal year.

Nintendo confirmed on X that the Switch 2, the successor to the highly popular Nintendo Switch, is coming out this fiscal year. We expect Nintendo’s new handheld console to arrive in November 2024 at the earliest

I'm not sure if that's a correct article heading/info, because it sounds kind of totally misleading.

Nintendo didn't confirm the product is launching this fiscal year. They will only do a formal announcement of the successor. They haven't mentioned any specific product release date, but this is most likely a 2025 product.

Announcement is different than confirming an actual product's release timeline. So Switch 2 is likely NOT coming out this fiscal year, if I understood the tweet correctly.

"This is Furukawa, President of Nintendo. We will make an announcement about the successor to Nintendo Switch within this fiscal year".

 

[edzieba]

I'm not sure if that's a correct article heading/info, because it sounds kind of misleading IMO.

Nintendo didn't confirm the product is launching this fiscal year. They will only do a formal announcement of the successor. They haven't mentioned any specific product release date, but this is most likely a 2025 product.

Announcement is different than confirming an actual product's release timeline. So Switch 2 is likely NOT coming out this fiscal year, if I understood the tweet correctly.

"This is Furukawa, President of Nintendo. We will make an announcement about the successor to Nintendo Switch within this fiscal year".

And since all the sum total actual substance of the statement was that "the successor" would be:
1) Not mentioned in the June Nintendo Direct
2) Announced this fiscal year (which for Japan, is April to April)
This does not even 'confirm' a 'Switch 2' exists - a successor could be a new home console (e.g. with a WAN-enabled Wii-U like remote), a fully mobile-only device (e.g. a DS successor) or something else entirely and that a 'successor' - whatever it is - will have an associated announcement sometime before April 2025. That may not even be an announcement of the product, just an announcement related to it (e.g. "we will not be announcing a successor before 2026" released April 2025 would constitute "an announcement about the successor to Nintendo Switch within this fiscal year".

Always fun to watch the gaming press whip out their Jump to Conclusions mat when Nintendo makes even the most noncommital possible statement in to spin it as whatever they want to hear.

 

[hotaru251]

I think msot people alreayd assumed the 2025 release date when Pokemon z-a was announced ot be 2025.

Nintendo ALWAYS launches new console w/ launch title of one of the big three IP's (zelda, mario, or pokemon)
Zeldas too soon for a new one since totk, Mario is focusing on remakes/masters (luigi mansion2, pm 1kyd, & mario vs dk) in 2024, and pokemon was announced for 2025.

It's sad to see the biggest IP in the gaming industry subjected to hardware that's 12 years old hardware at release, nevermind the fact that it has to last 7 years. They will be reliant on DLSS to save face, and of course that looks horrible compared to native.

Nintendo has never pushed bleeding edge (well not since N64) graphics as they, unlike sony & ms, don't have to.
Nintendo knows its place & its users are fine with it mostly.
Would we want better? sure. do we need it to be great? no. Considering the specs of switch how good the games are is impressive.
Most of switch games look and run fine w/ a few outliers & stuff like Pokemon vi/sc was likely more to do with rushed development.

You don't play Nintendo games for best visuals. You play em for the fun gameplay and most again play extremely well.

My only desire (apart from a more modern spec which we can always expect) is joycon update w/ better joysticks.

and rumors were mainly on the cpu ( custom nvidia T239 ) and gpu was never really known just entirely assumed w/o much grounds. (only based on ampere but no performance related stuff minus using dlss)

 

[YouFilthyHippo]

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I think msot people alreayd assumed the 2025 release date when Pokemon z-a was announced ot be 2025.

Nintendo ALWAYS launches new console w/ launch title of one of the big three IP's (zelda, mario, or pokemon)
Zeldas too soon for a new one since totk, Mario is focusing on remakes/masters (luigi mansion2, pm 1kyd, & mario vs dk) in 2024, and pokemon was announced for 2025.


Nintendo has never pushed bleeding edge (well not since N64) graphics as they, unlike sony & ms, don't have to.
Nintendo knows its place & its users are fine with it mostly.
Would we want better? sure. do we need it to be great? no. Considering the specs of switch how good the games are is impressive.
Most of switch games look and run fine w/ a few outliers & stuff like Pokemon vi/sc was likely more to do with rushed development.

You don't play Nintendo games for best visuals. You play em for the fun gameplay and most again play extremely well.

My only desire (apart from a more modern spec which we can always expect) is joycon update w/ better joysticks.

and rumors were mainly on the cpu ( custom nvidia T239 ) and gpu was never really known just entirely assumed w/o much grounds. (only based on ampere but no performance related stuff minus using dlss)

I don't expect bleeding edge. PS5 wasn't bleeding edge at release, but it sure as hell wasn't 12 years old. NVidia has mobile chips for a reason. I wouldn't expect a liquid cooled 4090..... But theres no excuse to not have a 4070 mobile.... Or even a 4060 mobile..... which would be downclocked on portable mode, like a laptop GPU downclocks when not plugged in. I'd be fine with that. But I know we're gonna get a half baked 12 year old potato. It's disappointing. I get why Nintendo does it. I understand the business model, but people who care that their games look nice have to pay the price of that. Like I said. I'll just wait for an emulator

 

[hotaru251]

PS5 wasn't bleeding edge at release

it cost way more, used raytracing, direct storage, & while not used had ability to enable frame gen in hardware.

to consoles that was bleeding edge at the time.

Switch was made 7yrs ago. its hardware would of been picked a yr or 2 before that.

yes, nvidia does have mobile chips..but they also aren't as power efficient as tegra & in a device that's main feature is handheld mode thats kind of important.

but people who care that their games look nice have to pay the price of that

[looks at switch sales & basically every nintendo console (except wii u due to bad marketing)]

I don't think thats been the primary focus of the userbase.

If looking pretty was main concern the PSP would of destroyed the NDS. (it didn't)

. I'll just wait for an emulator

which is fine.

I kept my og switch just to dump stuff to play it on emulator so I know how much better it is...but again thats not the primary focus for their majority userbase.
as a business why push beyond your users needs when it barely makes more profit than if you didnt?

 

[jeremyj_83]

Nintendo has never pushed bleeding edge (well not since N64) graphics as they, unlike sony & ms, don't have to.

The GameCube was bleeding edge for graphics. It was more powerful than the PS2 and only slightly less powerful than the XBox.

 

[YouFilthyHippo]

it cost way more, used raytracing, direct storage, & while not used had ability to enable frame gen in hardware.
to consoles that was bleeding edge at the time.
Switch was made 7yrs ago. its hardware would of been picked a yr or 2 before that.

Bleeding Edge was a 3090. The PS5 is a radeon 6700. It's not even fair lol. Switch came out un 2017. Its a GT-830M. The Radeon 4870 from 2008 beats it. That's 9 years, not 2.

yes, nvidia does have mobile chips..but they also aren't as power efficient as tegra & in a device that's main feature is handheld mode thats kind of important.

I'm sure they could tweak a 4070 mobile or 4060 mobile to be fairly power efficient. They can even add a setting.... like a slider, left to right, for battery life vs performance, and adjust accordingly. The user can choose

as a business why push beyond your users needs when it barely makes more profit than if you didnt?

The year is 2024. A GTX 780 (assuming the T239 rumour are legit) doesn't cut it anymore. I get that, its all about profit, user experience be damned. If its the T239, like they say.... ya I definitely won't pay for that lol.

 

[Deleted member 2731765]

Always fun to watch the gaming press whip out their Jump to Conclusions mat when Nintendo makes even the most noncommital possible statement in to spin it as whatever they want to hear.

Amen !

 

[ivan_vy]

The GameCube was bleeding edge for graphics. It was more powerful than the PS2 and only slightly less powerful than the XBox.

also the N64 was more advanced than Sony PS and SEGA Saturn

 

[jeremyj_83]

also the N64 was more advanced than Sony PS and SEGA Saturn

The N64 also came out 2 years later. The PS was a joint Nintendo/Sony project originally planned to be an add-on to the SNES like the Sega CD. However, Nintendo saw the Sega CD flop and cancelled their CD add-on. Sony had invested so much time and money they finished it as a standalone console instead.

 

[ivan_vy]

The N64 also came out 2 years later. The PS was a joint Nintendo/Sony project originally planned to be an add-on to the SNES like the Sega CD. However, Nintendo saw the Sega CD flop and cancelled their CD add-on. Sony had invested so much time and money they finished it as a standalone console instead.

it was not because Sega flop but license agreements between Sony and Nintendo, the N64 was great because SGI involvement with their the supercomputing technology (that SEGA let it pass -SEGA wanted exclusivity-) the Ultra 64 platform was already in oct 1994 in arcades with Killer Instict.

 

[oofdragon]

If Nintendo cared about power efficiency they would go bleeding edge. Nope, they want to buy hardware at $5 and sell at $300. Don't buy Nintendo hardware, emulate it. Problem solved

 

[oofdragon]

I didn't buy a Switch because its too underpowered, I already have a SNES for that kind of gaming. If the Switch 2 launches outdated, aka not running PS5 games at least, I won't be buying again