The Nintendo Switch 2, As Described By Dbrand

Nintendo is inching ever personification to its promised deadline to uncover nan Switch’s successor earlier April 2025. But caller leaks from suit manufacturers look to uncover precisely what nan Nintendo’s adjacent console could look like, and a less notable upgrades it mightiness personification complete nan original Switch.

We were inspired to represent this article successful nan first spot because of Dbrand’s just-announced “Killswitch 2” case. The website for nan merchandise features an in-motion render of nan suit and, inside, a mockup of hardware that has immoderate cardinal differences from nan Switch and Switch OLED: nan caller console appears to beryllium larger, and it has a mysterious caller 2nd fastener connected nan correct Joy-Con nether nan Home button. Accessory leaks complete nan past respective days personification shown a akin imaginable creation for nan hardware.

It seems Dbrand is reasonably assured successful its case, but we asked CEO Adam Ijaz to beryllium sure. He says Dbrand has “actual dimensions” — not an knowledgeable conjecture — based connected a “3D scan of nan existent hardware.” (When we asked really he knows that, Ijaz only said “Nice try, Nintendo.”)

Based connected Dbrand’s measurements, nan adjacent Switch (which we’ll telephone nan Switch 2) will immoderate beryllium larger and taller than Nintendo’s Switch OLED, but astir nan aforesaid thickness. Nintendo’s spec expanse shows its erstwhile handheld is 242mm wide, 102mm gangly and 13.9mm thick, wherever Ijaz says nan Switch 2 should measurement 270mm wide, 116mm tall, and 14mm thick, pinch nan console accusation taking up 200mm worthy of that width.

Ijaz too says nan kickstand will still measurement astir half nan console’s tallness astatine astir 55mm; a diagonal measurement of nan surface coagulated supports erstwhile rumors that it’ll personification an 8-inch screen.

Ijaz says it’s his “understanding” that Joy-Cons are “magnetically attached” pinch an “an ejection button” that’s connected nan backmost of nan Joy-Cons adjacent nan top, and his caller suit takes advantage of nan detachable controllers — he says nan controller portions of Dbrand’s suit tin detach pinch them inside.

He doesn’t cognize what nan 2nd quadrate fastener is nether nan Home button, which he says has a “C” printed connected it. The adjacent Joy-Con successful Dbrand’s mockup still has a fastener connected nan adjacent Joy-Con, which is wherever you’ll find nan seizure fastener connected nan original Switch, truthful it’s unclear if this “C” fastener now intends seizure aliases if immoderate buttons activity differently. (Nintendo primitively introduced C-buttons connected nan Nintendo 64 controller successful 1996 arsenic a measurement to powerfulness a game’s camera, earlier gamepads introduced a 2nd instrumentality to fto you displacement perspective.)

Ijaz says nan joysticks guidelines 6.27mm tall, and nan D-pad and ABXY buttons protrude by 1.57mm, pinch a 180mm wide kickstand, and backmost triggers that widen 14.1mm.

While Dbrand does look to cognize a batch astir nan console, Ijaz is “genuinely unsure” astir its imaginable merchandise date. He says that Dbrand is moving toward a precocious March aliases early April merchandise for its case, though. Ijaz too doesn’t cognize astir Nintendo’s imaginable TV dock for nan Switch 2, but says that Dbrand’s presumption is that “the style facet will beryllium akin to nan erstwhile gen.” He doesn’t cognize if nan aboveground will beryllium LCD aliases OLED.

While it’s highly different for an accessory shaper to publically uncover this overmuch astir a merchandise from a powerful, litigious institution for illustration Nintendo, it’s not astonishing that Dbrand’s nan 1 stepping up to nan plate. Having beef pinch console makers is an intentional (and often fun!) information of its trading strategy, and Nintendo is simply a predominant target — for illustration that Zelda tegument that was a mediate digit to Nintendo’s lawyers, aliases nan “(not) Animal Crossing” one.

Much of what Dbrand is showing and what Ijaz is saying lines up pinch a video from SwitchUp showing what it calls a Switch 2 mockup sent to them by a suit manufacturer. That mockup is intelligibly larger than today’s existing Switch OLED, and nan caller Joy-Cons are intelligibly bigger than nan aged Joy-Cons. You tin too spot nan 2nd quadrate fastener nether nan location fastener there, nan larger fastener nether nan triggers that presumably ejects them from nan console, and a wide kickstand akin to nan 1 connected nan Switch OLED.

One different bully addition? A 2nd USB-C larboard connected nan apical of nan mockup, which theoretically intends you’ll beryllium tin to plug successful a charging cablegram while you’re utilizing it successful tabletop mode; pinch nan existent Switch, nan charging larboard connected nan bottommost is blocked erstwhile you’re opinionated it up connected a table.

While we’re still waiting for Nintendo to really denote existent specifications astir nan Switch 2, nan institution has shared that nan console will beryllium tin to play existent Switch games and it will personification Nintendo Switch Online arsenic well.