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Reports: Nintendo Switch Successor to Launch in 1st Quarter 2025

A 7-year lifecycle and another cross-cyle year on top most likely. Seems sensible but the Switch being the Wii U 1.5 of course complicates things a bit. So it´s 11.5 years of basically the same tech. That console died the second the Switch dropped and only Xenoblade Chronicles X is left unported so far. What a bomb of a console.

According to the rumors, the delay is due to Nintendo wanting to beef up their first party lineup for the new console, suggesting there was a game releasing in the early months of 2025, or maybe that got delayed out of late 2024, that they want to have at launch.

One publishing source suggested the delay was so that Nintendo could prepare stronger first-party software for the console.

The console's launch moving into early next year - but still within the coming financial year - is designed to ensure Switch 2's launch line-up features as many titles as possible

Also, assuming there's even going to be another XBox is being very generous considering MS' current predicament.

Microsoft is already talking up the next generation, being eager to get out of this one. Whereas PS5 is comparably at the halfway point of its generation, and still PS5 gamers feel that this has been a poor generation of cross-gen and poor exclusive offerings with all the big good-looking hitters from Grand Theft Auto VI and Death Stranding 2 targeting 2025, and still no 1st party next-gen game in sight. Capcom and Square Enix have been doing most of the work..

I hope not. That's the time most people are recovering from all the holiday spending they should either push it to 2nd-3rd quarter or just speed up development to make it this holiday season.

These rumors always pop up, mostly because people can’t pay attention very well to history and what Nintendo actual does before there is a new console. Nintendo generally has a console launch with a large list of first party games and some big third party games. Mario Kart and Legend of Zelda just got updates. Game design on these games is 5-7 years. Tears of the Kingdom reused assets and had a shorter development window. I don’t see them going back to that well. We haven’t even heard where Metroid 4 is at but a year or so the developers said it went back to board. Don’t expect another console for at least another 3-5 years. Switch sales aren’t even slowing down so it’s unlikely this is anything but industry wishful thinking.

I don't know if it's just my Switch which I bought at launch, but even the online store has a lot of lag and is slow to move through the menus. I don't particularly need a super powerful machine but I would like it to at least do basic functions smoothly.

Decent framerate and maybe 4k video is all I need.

Dnautics wrote:

Decent framerate and maybe 4k video is all I need.

You need to be ready to be disappointed, then, because you're not going to get 4k video in a unit the size of the Switch. The Steam Deck is twice the Switch's weight and just barely manages to run games well at 800p. Video cards that are capable of running modern games in 4k @ 60 FPS are twice the weight of the Deck all by themselves.

Assuming Nintendo is planning for the Switch's successor to be portable, 1080p @ 60 FPS is probably the best you could hope for, and even that might be pushing it a little bit.