Is This The Nintendo Switch 2?

Nintendo isn’t officially astatine CES, but it mightiness personification stolen nan show anyway: accessories-maker Genki brought a 3D-printed mockup of what it says is Nintendo’s Switch successor, and we sewage to clasp it and return immoderate high-resolution pictures.

Based connected nan mockup of what we’ll telephone nan Switch 2, Nintendo’s adjacent console appears to beryllium wider than nan original, pinch somewhat larger Joy-Con controllers that look for illustration they’ll beryllium overmuch comfortable to hold. Compared to a Steam Deck OLED, nan Switch 2 mockup still feels noticeably smaller, successful information because nan Joy-Cons are not arsenic pronounced and ergonomic arsenic nan Deck’s grips. But nan mockup still feels personification successful size to Valve’s handheld than nan original Switch.

As erstwhile rumors personification indicated, nan Switch 2’s Joy-Cons will link to nan console via magnets alternatively of a sliding rail, Genki co-founder and CEO Eddie Tsai tells The Verge. To detach a Joy-Con from nan Switch 2, you spot a ample fastener astatine nan apical of nan backmost broadside of each controller, Tsai says, and that fastener apparently pushes retired a pin that nudges against nan chassis of nan console, disconnecting nan magnets.

You tin region nan Joy-Cons pinch brute portion if you really wanted to, according to Tsai, but he says that wide they consciousness unafraid for regular usage and that nan ample merchandise fastener detaches nan Joy-Cons pinch ease. Tsai declined to banal wherever he’d learned specifications of nan caller console.

Tsai too tells The Verge that housed incorrect nan mounting transmission of nan Joy-Cons is an optical sensor, and by utilizing different attachment nan caller Joy-Cons whitethorn relationship mouse-like functionality. It sounds a spot for illustration what Lenovo does pinch its Legion Go handheld.

Nintendo has promised that it will denote nan Switch’s successor earlier April 2025, and arsenic that deadline creeps closer, location personification been waves of leaks and rumors astir nan caller hardware. In December, YouTube transmission SwitchUp posted a video showing a 3D-printed, non-functional Switch 2 mockup provided by a Chinese suit manufacturer. That mockup fundamentally looked for illustration nan existent Switch but bigger, and it revealed a less different imaginable changes for illustration a caller USB-C larboard connected nan apical of nan instrumentality and a mysterious caller quadrate fastener nether nan Home fastener connected nan correct Joy-Con.

Days later, accessories-maker Dbrand announced its “Killswitch 2” case, and CEO Adam Ijaz told The Verge that it was designed based connected “actual dimensions” based connected a “3D scan of nan existent hardware.” Ijaz too said that it was his “understanding” that nan console’s Joy-Cons are magnetically attached. And Dbrand’s imagery showed that nan caller quadrate fastener had a “C” printed connected it, though Ijaz didn’t cognize what it was. Days aft that, our workfellow Sean Hollister said pinch a Redditor who shared evident photos of nan Switch 2’s dock and the inside of what appears to beryllium a Switch 2 Joy-Con.

With that April 2025 deadline inching personification each day, it seems for illustration it won’t beryllium agelong until Nintendo officially, yet reveals nan Switch 2. But until that happens, astatine slightest we personification these pictures to look at.

Photography by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge