Everything We Know (and Think We Know) About The Nintendo Switch 2

Nintendo’s announcement of nan Switch successor is imminent. Just really imminent is anyone’s conjecture pinch nan institution stating that it would uncover info connected nan console earlier nan extremity of its fiscal twelvemonth successful March. Rumors regarding nan caller Switch personification been circulating for much than a year, but pinch small than 2 months to spell until nan promised deadline, and successful nan absence of immoderate existent accusation from Nintendo itself, speculation astir nan console, its specs, beingness profile, and overmuch personification reached a fever pitch. So earlier nan charismatic reveal, here’s everything we deliberation we cognize astir Nintendo’s adjacent console.

The only concrete, Nintendo-confirmed information of accusation we cognize astir nan caller console is that it’ll beryllium backwards compatible pinch nan Switch. Everything different has recreation by measurement of leaks and info supplied by third-party manufacturers. Late past year, 1 specified manufacturer, Dbrand, debuted its Killswitch carrying suit meant for nan Switch 2. According to Dbrand CEO Adam Ijaz, nan Killswitch is based connected nan “actual dimensions” of nan caller console obtained from a “3D scan of nan existent hardware.” But successful an mobility and reply pinch The Verge, he declined to opportunity precisely really aliases wherever Dbrand obtained specified information.

If nan Killswitch’s creation is truthful derived from nan existent thing, nan caller console will beryllium larger than nan Switch OLED pinch an 8-inch screen, and characteristic a kickstand that will span nan magnitude of nan console akin to nan OLED model. That nan caller Switch will beryllium larger than erstwhile iterations is supported by leaks and info from different accessory manufacturers arsenic bully arsenic nan thought that nan Joy-Con controllers will link via magnet alternatively of sliding and snapping into place. The caller controller creation will too incorporated magnets successful nan joysticks to combat against nan dreaded “Joy-Con drift” that plagues nan Switch moreover now.

CES 2025 provided moreover overmuch fodder for nan rumor mill, pinch accessory shaper Genki showing disconnected a 3D printed mock-up of nan console connected nan show floor. In an mobility and reply pinch The Verge, Genki CEO Eddie Tsai went into point astir what he knows astir nan caller Switch reaffirming rumors regarding its larger size, magnetic Joy-Con, and more.

While there’s a batch of speculation and imaginable grounds astir what nan caller console will look like, there’s small circulating astir what it tin really do. Beyond an alleged photograph of nan console’s motherboard, location hasn’t been overmuch retired location astir nan console’s hardware specifications. Because Nintendo has ne'er made consoles astatine nan bleeding separator (or, honestly, moreover nan cutting one) of graphics aliases processing power, it’s difficult to conjecture really bully nan console will execute aliases what further features, for illustration a microphone, it’ll have.

Though nan console’s internals enactment a mystery, we do cognize that it’ll beryllium backwards compatible pinch Switch games. We tin too reasonably conjecture astatine slightest 1 crippled that’ll beryllium a motorboat title: Metroid Prime 4. Announced successful 2017, and undergoing a alteration of workplace and a betterment reboot 2 years later, Nintendo debuted gameplay footage for nan first clip past twelvemonth and shared a soft motorboat exemplary of 2025. When Twilight Princess launched successful 2006, it debuted connected immoderate nan GameCube and served arsenic a motorboat title for nan Wii. Breath of nan Wild was too cross-gen, debuting connected nan Wii U while launching pinch nan Switch successful 2017.

Knowing that nan caller Switch and Metroid Prime 4 immoderate motorboat successful 2025 and pinch Twilight Princess and BotW arsenic examples, it’s speculated that nan logic for Metroid 4’s agelong stint successful betterment hellhole was, astatine slightest successful part, because nan crippled was being tooled for immoderate nan Switch and its successor. Also, you conscionable can’t personification a caller Nintendo console without a Mario game. Super Mario Odyssey was a Switch motorboat title, and though there’s been different caller releases for illustration Super Mario Wonder, location hasn’t been a new, standalone (put down your pitchforks Bowser’s Fury fans) 3D Mario crippled since then. It’s each but assured 1 will beryllium announced pinch nan caller Switch. The precocious announced Pokémon Legends: Z-A is too a bully motorboat title campaigner arsenic Nintendo curiously worded nan game’s debut trailer pinch “releasing simultaneously worldwide connected Nintendo Switch successful 2025.”

For each nan rumors and reasonable guesses supported by progressively convincing evidence, it’s adjuvant to retrieve that astatine nan extremity of nan day, we’re still talking astir Nintendo. The institution has ever tread a abstracted and unpredictable way from nan different 2 awesome console manufacturers and that oddball strategy has mostly worked very well. Though nan institution is not immune to nan aforesaid layoffs and delays (the Switch 2 was primitively pegged for a 2024 release) plaguing its peers and truthful has its ain manifold issues pinch really it treats and pays its labour and contractors, of nan awesome publishers, it seems to beryllium nan 1 that is champion navigating nan existent business ravaging nan industry.

It is folly trying to foretell what Nintendo will do, and that applies to its caller console. All we tin count connected is that it’s coming soon, and erstwhile it arrives, it’ll beryllium big.