Nintendo announces a new Nintendo Direct in June and gives a reveal window for the Switch 2

Nintendo has officially confirmed that it will offer information about Nintendo Switch 2 throughout the current fiscal year, which ends in March 2025. Through a message published on the company’s social networks, president Shuntaro Furukawa also revealed that there will be a new Nintendo Direct in June, although he has already revealed that the new machine will not be present, since they will focus all their attention on the software.

“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 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.

What we know about the Nintendo Switch 2

According to the information shared by some accessory manufacturers, the Nintendo Switch 2 (which is only what we’re calling it due to a lack of official name or even codename) will have an 8″ panel similar in structure to the current console. It will be “a little bigger” than Nintendo Switch, but it will not go to the dimensions of devices like the Steam Deck, for example.

The big difference will come in the Joy-Con anchoring system. Nintendo is set to discard the current rails to apply a solution using magnets. This is something that the company already tried to apply in 2017, but the technology was not advanced enough to hold them firmly.

Nintendo Switch, eight years of success and records

March 2017. After some difficult years in which the Wii U broke the commercial inertia that they had achieved with the Wii, Nintendo Switch arrived with a groundbreaking format that continued the idea of extending the gaming session beyond the living room screen. The portable and home console concepts were united in a single device that fully penetrated the industry from day one.

The numbers speak for themselves. As of December 31, 2023, Nintendo Switch has managed to sell over 139 million units of the console through its four models (original, review, Lite, and OLED). Compared to the 13 and a half million that Wii U sold in its 5-year commercial cycle, the change in level is evident.

The muscle of its data in hardware comes accompanied by enormous solvency in the software side. Its top 10 is led precisely by a Wii U port, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, the great phenomenon that has experienced a second youth after its arrival in the hybrid, with 60 million copies sold. It is closely followed by Animal Crossing: New Horizons (44 million) and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (33 million).