Developers have reportedly been told that Nintendo Switch 2 is expected to launch after March 31, 2025, according to Gamesindustry.biz head Christopher Dring during the outlet’s latest podcast.
According to Dring, developers hope that Switch 2 will launch in April or May 2025. However, it’s unclear who these developers are, and Nintendo has yet to unveil new details about the Nintendo Switch successor, either.
“No developer I’ve spoken to expects it to be launching this financial year,” Dring said in the Gamesindustry.biz Podcast. “In fact, they’ve been told not to expect it in the financial year (ending March 31, 2025). A bunch of people I spoke to hope it’s out in April or May time, still early next year, not late.”
Dring continued, “I don’t think any of us wants a late launch for Switch 2 because we all want a new Nintendo console, everyone gets very excited for it, and we don’t want that crunch of Grand Theft Auto 6 and Switch and all that kind of stuff on top of each other.”
Nintendo’s recent earnings release for the quarter ending on June 30, 2024, revealed that the Nintendo Switch sales reached 143.22 million worldwide. 2.1 million Nintendo Switch hardware units were moved in the first quarter of FY 3/2025. Additionally, 30.64 million software units were sold on Nintendo Switch in the same quarter. This brings the grand total of Nintendo Switch software units sold to 1.266 billion.
According to Nintendo, unit sales for the entire Nintendo Switch family of systems declined 46.3% year-on-year to 2.10 million units. Unit sales of software declined 41.3% year-on-year to 30.64 million units. Nintendo reports good sales for many of its evergreen titles, including The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.
