Switch 2 will not be delayed: Nintendo sticks to launch plan

Nintendo’s next-generation console is likely to be one of the most anticipated of the 21st century. Shintaro Furukawa, the company’s president, is aware of this. During the presentation of the last quarter’s financial results (Q3/FY25), he tried to calm the masses by assuring that the plans for its launch remain intact, despite the rumors that keep popping up on the Internet (via VGC).

“We will make an announcement about the successor to Nintendo Switch within this fiscal year,” Furukawa said. The president is sticking to the line he himself has been drawing since May. At the gates of the big direct this summer, he confirmed in a short tweet that they would announce their next console sometime in March 2025, when the fiscal year in which we find ourselves closes.

Nintendo Switch slows down, but remains on track to become the best-selling console in history

The hybrid console is experiencing a slowdown in sales, according to results released by Nintendo on November 5. In the last six months ending September 30, total hardware sales have consolidated at 4.72 million, compared to the 6.84 million they placed in the same range last year. In fact, the total sales forecast for this year has been adjusted from the 13.5 million to the 12.5 million they currently expect.

However, the console is still on track to become the best-selling console in history. On the verge of its successor, which still has no release date, Nintendo has sold 146.04 million units worldwide. The last big stop is the PlayStation 2, which according to Jim Ryan (former CEO of the brand) has sold 160 million. Nintendo DS is on its way with 154 million, but it seems clear that in a few months the mark will be broken.

The games just keep coming

In other circumstances, Nintendo would have focused all of its efforts on betting on the next hardware to come out. We saw that with Wii U under different circumstances. However, the success of Switch has allowed its users to continue to receive a high caliber of releases as it enters its eighth year on the market.

Mario and Luigi: Brothership, the first spin-off adventure in nearly a decade, arrives on November 7. During 2024, there was no shortage of key brands such as The Legend of Zelda, which finds a twist on the top-down experience in Echoes of Wisdom. We got the best Mario Party in years, and classics like Mario vs. Donkey Kong, Another Code: Recollection and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, among many others, also returned.

And 2025 continues to provide compelling reasons to stay on the console. Metroid Prime 4: Beyond continues to pulsate on the horizon as the beacon that will symbolically close out all the titles presented in the now-distant 2017. It will also be a year of reunions, such as Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition, which will make the entire saga available on a single hardware. Not to mention Pokémon Legends: Z-A.

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