Nintendo has directly addressed the Switch 2 ahead of its Nintendo Direct even in June, including details of when we can expect a full announcement.
Nintendo President Furukawa made the announcement on X. He says “We will make an announcement about the successor to Nintendo Switch within this fiscal year.”
Nintendo’s current fiscal year ends in March in 2025. This lines up with various reports suggesting the next iteration of the Switch, which is what the new console is widely believed to be, was pushed back to 2025.
The original Nintendo Switch launched in March of 2017. Based on the timeline Nintendo’s President has given us, would an official reveal late this year/early 2025 be on the cards for a March 2025 release, just in time for the start of Nintendo’s new fiscal year?
Quite likely because of the amount of information that has leaked about Nintendo’s next console, Furukawa smartly tempers expectations, clearly stating that the Switch 2 (which I still hope will be called the Super Switch) will not be mentioned during the June presentation.
“We will be holding a Nintendo Direct this June regarding the Nintendo Switch software lineup for the latter half of 2024, but please be aware that there will be no mention of the Nintendo Switch successor during that presentation.”
Nintendo’s latest financial results have also been released today, with no mention of the new hardware.
In essence then, Furukawa announced that there won’t be an announcement in June. Still, to the best of my knowledge this is the first time Nintendo has directly addressed the new console.