Shuntaro Furukawa

Fans know little, which the internet has dubbed the Switch 2. However, company president Shuntaro Furukawa spoke about the next console during a recent Q&A with investors. While Nintendo does not consider its situation “totally secure,” the company is committed to offering things that its competitors do not.

According to well-known leaker Midori, Nintendo has been calling its new console the 'Switch 2' and 'New Switch' behind closed doors, but it might not be the actual name when it's finally unveiled to the public (outside of a random tweet on a Tuesday, that is).

Nintendo has gotten a decisive victory for the Nintendo Switch which has been the center of multiple lawsuits over the years due to Joy-Con drift. However, a pair of these lawsuits have been filed for dismissal at the concession of those who filed them. The result of this could affect the upcoming Switch 2 console.

June is going to be the biggest month of the year for gaming. With updates from major franchises such as , and major companies like Xbox and Nintendo, alongside some long-awaited releases such as 's DLC.

After years of speculation and wild rumors, it’s official: Nintendo’s new console is on the horizon.

Nintendo seems extremely serious about the security of the Nintendo Switch 2, going so far as to create a codename for the system's actual codename.

According to some rumors about the next Nintendo console, the Switch successor could include RAM that puts it within range of the Xbox Series S while in Docked mode, but with a few differences between the systems. The same rumors also state that, while the Switch 2's specs remain unconfirmed by Nintendo, the system could use DLSS to bridge the gap between other current consoles.

Earlier this week, Nintendo finally put an end to one of the games industry's worst-kept secrets and officially announced the Switch 2, stating that it will be shown off at some point during this fiscal year, but that it won't be revealed at the company's yearly Direct this June.

At its recent earnings call, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa said during the Q&A session that he believes game development will take longer, and get more complex as time goes on. Questions during the Q&A session largely revolved around the successor to the Nintendo Switch.

After endless speculation, Nintendo finally said something concrete about their plans for a Switch successor as part of their most recent earnings report, promising to announce the Switch 2 (or whatever it ends up being called) sometime during this fiscal year, which extends until the end of March, 2025. There are rumors that the Switch 2 will be unveiled this Fall and release in March of 2025, but nothing has been confirmed by Nintendo themselves.

Nintendo has suggested that the successor to the Switch will not arrive before March 31, 2025, indicating an April release at the very earliest.

Nintendo's upcoming new platform, for now, dubbed the Nintendo Switch 2, could very well end up sporting 12GB of RAM - a huge upgrade over the Switch's current 4GB of memory.

Nintendo has suggested that its next-generation console will be a evolution of the Nintendo Switch.

Nintendo confirms that the highly-anticipated Switch successor will use the existing Nintendo Account system. The Big N has previously stated that the accounts would be part of the plans for the follow-up to the Nintendo Switch. Still, as things tend to change quite quickly in the gaming industry, it's nice to get confirmation that this desired feature is still part of the bigger picture.

Japan's Nintendo said on Tuesday it plans to make an announcement about the successor to its long-lasting Switch console during the financial year ending March 2025.

News regarding the Nintendo Switch 2 has been agonizingly thin on the ground as of late, but Nintendo finally gave us an official update earlier today by announcing that the console will be revealed within the current fiscal year. That's led to renewed excitement about the system, and Nintendo insider TvPH has used that excitement to get word out about the features that the console will have.

Nintendo has dropped a major hint about what the Switch 2 will look like, suggesting that its next console will retain the hybrid form factor of its predecessor. This bit of insight into the much-anticipated device emerged from Nintendo's latest earnings call.

Nintendo has given the strongest indication yet that its next-generation console won’t stray too far from the existing Switch hardware.

The Nintendo Switch 2 will be released sometime in March 2025, and the first reveal of the highly anticipated system will be coming this Fall.

Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa officially acknowledged Nintendo is making a Switch successor — called Switch 2 by many, albeit not by Nintendo — in a message coinciding with the company’s yearly financial results. Yes, we all knew the Nintendo Switch successor was coming, but Nintendo had said nothing about the console ahead of Furukawa’s message.

In the most anticlimactic way possible, Nintendo on Tuesday confirmed years of rumors: the Nintendo Switch 2 console is on the way.

A new leak suggests that projects have already been greenlit for Nintendo's upcoming console. After years of speculation, the President of Nintendo Shuntaro Furukawa, confirmed that the Nintendo Switch's successor — often called " by the Nintendo community — would be revealed later this year, and many quickly turned their attention to what games could be in development for it.

Nintendo has finally confirmed two important things that people were speculating about. First off, we learned that another Nintendo Direct showcase will be taking place this June. More importantly, Nintendo finally confirmed that it is working on a Nintendo Switch successor and said we’d learn more about it within this fiscal year.

Nintendo has announced plans to unveil a new flagship Switch console within this fiscal year, aiming to keep its momentum in the gaming market. The company, led by President Shuntaro Furukawa, confirmed the successor to the ageing Switch will be revealed by March 2025. However, there won't be any specifics shared during the upcoming Nintendo Direct event in June.

Nintendo will unveil a successor to the Switch sometime «within this fiscal year» ending March 2025, president Shuntaro Furukawa wrote in a post on X. That differs slightly from reports that the next-gen console would be announced this year, as it could also be revealed early in 2025.

Nintendo has released its latest financial results, showing a strong year in terms of net sales and profits thanks to the success of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Super Mario Bros Wonder and The Super Mario Bros Movie.

Nintendo will announce the successor to Switch within this fiscal year, which ends on March 31, 2025, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa said in a statement.

Nintendo has confirmed that the Nintendo Switch 2 reveal will take place this fiscal year, but set expectations ahead of June’s Nintendo Direct by stating that this stream will not feature the next generation console.

Nintendo has revealed the window of time for the announcement of its successor to the Switch.

Amid months, even years, of rumors about the Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa has finally confirmed its existence. It will be revealed within this fiscal year, i.e. between now and March 31st, 2025.

Nintendo has given the first indications on when we can expect news on its next console, revealing that the device will be announced "within this fiscal year."

Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa has confirmed that the company will be announcing the Switch successor, currently dubbed Switch 2, before April 2025.

Nintendo has confirmed it will announce its next-generation console during its current fiscal year, ending March 2025.

Palworld has been played by more than 25 million players since its launch, its studio Pocketpair says.

The Pokemon Company has announced their own Nintendo Direct of sorts, coming next week.

The Pokémon Company has announced a digital event for next week, which it says will contain “exciting news”.

Nintendo is advising game publishers that its next-generation console will be delayed until the early months of 2025, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Nintendo Co. is advising game publishers that its next-generation console will be delayed until the early months of 2025, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

The wait for Nintendo’s next-gen console may have just gotten a little longer. According to multiple reports, Nintendo now plans to launch its Switch successor in the first quarter of 2025 — or about eight years after it launched the original Nintendo Switch.

Recent reports indicate that Nintendo plans to release the Switch 2 next year. The company also reportedly has several new games in the pipeline, which will be released for the new console.

A report claiming Nintendo Switch 2 will now launch in Q1 2025 is spreading online.

Nintendo’s next console could launch later than expected, in early 2025, it’s claimed.

A member of the Palworld development team has advised fans to try playing other games while they wait for content updates.

A new report claims Nintendo Switch 2 is expected later this year and will feature a custom-made Nvidia chip.

According to Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa, The Super Mario Bros. Movie helped grow the Switch console's sales in new international markets. Nintendo recently released its third-quarter fiscal earnings, which cataloged a number of impressive milestones. Information contained in this report includes updated sales numbers for the best-selling Switch games, as well as other financial milestones. Investors also got the chance to ask about recent trends and how they affected Nintendo's sales, such as the 2023 The Super Mario Bros. Movie.

Nintendo’s regular February Nintendo Direct live stream will be a Partner Direct this year, it’s claimed.

Nintendo recently shared their earnings for the third quarter of their 2024 fiscal year (which runs from April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2024) and, as we reported, it was a good three months for the company with the Switch inching closer to edging out the PS2 as the best-selling console ever. Overall, the first three quarters of FY2024 have set a record for the company, with them bringing in ¥408 billion (or about $2.8 billion). But what about what comes next?

Nintendo is reportedly “deep in conversation,” with external studios to work on its first-party IP.

Nintendo’s Switch successor will launch this year and will likely be an iteration of the current hardware design, rather than a revolution.

The Nintendo Switch 2 may feature an OLED display produced by Samsung, according to a new online report from Korea.

There have been some wild rumors circulating on the Nintendo Switch 2 and its capabilities, but there's a good chance these may be exaggerations, and the only area where the new console by Nintendo will have the upper hand over the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S will be ray tracing thanks to NVIDIA's Ray Reconstruction tech.

The successor to the Nintendo Switch may not include Deep Learning Accelerator tech for its upscaling, it’s claimed.

There’s a new rumor about the Nintendo Switch 2 that may be cause for concern about the platform’s potential power.

Nintendo has announced a new live stream focused on indie game news.

It looks like support for the Nintendo Switch probably won't be ending even after its successor hits store shelves, according to the company's latest financial briefing.

Super Mario Bros Wonder is the fastest-selling Mario game in history.

The Switch has had a long and successful lifespan, and Nintendo isn’t ready to move on from the hybrid console just yet.

Nintendo has poured cold water over reports of it demonstrating the Nintendo Switch 2 to developers.

Even with all the rumors circulating about a new Nintendo Switch, to the extent of allegedly having two SDKs and a release window in the second half of 2024, Nintendo is unfazed.

Nintendo will continue to release new titles and content for Switch “without being bound by the traditional concept of the platform lifecycle,” Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa said in Nintendo’s second quarter financial results presentation for the fiscal year ending March 2024.

Super Mario Bros. Wonder sold through 4.3 million units two weeks after release, making it the fastest-selling Super Mario-related title (limited to titles released for Wii and DS onwards, when software sell-through data collection began), Nintendo announced in its second quarter financial results presentation for the fiscal year ending March 2024.

Nintendo has announced that it will develop a live-action film of The Legend of Zelda.

Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa denies that the company is working on a two-screen successor to its successful handheld. Reports of a new Nintendo console surfaced last year, but the Nintendo executive calls these rumors “untrue.”

It’s time again for financial reports, and Nintendo’s is particularly interesting, as it reveals that its first-party IPs are doing exceedingly well, including Tears of the Kingdom.

Nintendo has said that reports detailing the company's actions briefing external game developers on Switch 2 are «untrue».

Nintendo's president has shot down reports of new hardware having been demoed earlier this year.

Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa has denied it briefed developers on plans for a Nintendo Switch successor, calling recent media reports “untrue”.

Some of the recent reports on the Nintendo Switch 2 are not accurate, according to Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa, who highlighted how the console wasn't shown in the past few months behind closed doors.

Nintendo's Switch console has now passed 132m units sold, but the company is remaining silent on its successor.

Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa declined to comment on plans for the company’s next console on Tuesday, as it announced Switch has now cleared 132.46 million lifetime sales.

Recent weeks have seen multiple leaks that have claimed that a new Nintendo console sporting support for 4K resolution, ray tracing, DLSS, and more is in the works and targeting a launch sometime in the second half of 2024. If that is, indeed, the timeline that Nintendo is intending to follow for its Switch successor, presumably, the company will be speaking about it in an official capacity in a few months’ time- but what does it have to say about its future hardware plans right now?

By Richard Lawler, a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget.

Nintendo, notoriously secretive, has so far said nothing — or almost nothing — on the record about its next game console. As Nintendo Switch approaches its seventh birthday in March 2024, questions about how much longer it will last are natural: Seven years is a typical lifespan for a console generation, Switch sales are falling fast, and the technology powering the console is showing its age. But Nintendo has flatly refused to engage with those questions.

Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa has confirmed that the company will continue to support the Nintendo Switch next year with new software planned for 2025.

Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa has outlined Nintendo Switch’s longevity, and it’s a whole lot longer than you probably expect.

Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa says Switch games will continue to be released until March 2025.

Based on multiple recent reports, it’s looking like the Nintendo Switch’s active lifecycle is about to come to an end. Leaks have claimed that a next-gen Nintendo console is very much in the works, and targeting a launch sometime in the second half of 2024. However, Nintendo itself has said that it’s still got things in the works for the Switch itself for fiscal year 2024/25, which ends on March 31, 2025.

Nintendo will be focusing on the "current" Nintendo Switch business through the end of March 2024 but also pointed out the platform will be supported through Nintendo's next Fiscal Year as well.

Nintendo will support the Nintendo Switch until at least March 2024, and the console will receive new games until March 2025.

This week, several unredacted, highly confidential documents from Microsoft began appearing online. These documents were part of Microsoft's legal case against the U.S. regulator, the Federal Trade Commission. The case was argued back in June, with a verdict reached in July, ruling in favor of Microsoft.