An announcement regarding the successor to the Nintendo Switch is get along within the current financial year , but it wo n’t be pass at the Nintendo Direct next calendar month , President of Nintendo Shuntaro Furukawa has announced .
The tidings come via a tweet from the official Nintendo Japan X ( formerly known as Twitter ) account . In it , Furukawa states that " an promulgation about the successor to Nintendo Switch " will be made " within this fiscal class . " That means we should have some news about the Nintendo Switch 2 before March 31 , 2025 .
Any hopes of us catch our first glimpse of Nintendo ’s next - gen computer hardware next calendar month were squashed in the same post . " We will be holding a Nintendo Direct this June regarding the Nintendo Switch computer software card for the latter one-half of 2024 , but please be aware that there will be no mention of the Nintendo Switch successor during that presentation .
This is Furukawa , President of Nintendo . We will make an announcement about the successor to Nintendo Switch within this fiscal year . It will have been over nine years since we announced the existence of Nintendo Switch back in March 2015 . We will be holding a Nintendo Direct …
Reports from Bloomberg earlier this year stated that the Nintendo Switch 2 had been delayed into March 2025 , having ab initio been scheduled to release before the end of 2024 . Rumors as early as last week had also advise that the Switch 2 ’s Joy - Cons would habituate magnetic engineering science to bind to the screen and independent piece of computer hardware , rather than using the ' rail ' organization of the current hardware . Old Joy - Con and Pro Controllers would also work with the novel twist , and both strong-arm and digital Nintendo Switch game would work on the Switch 2 .
