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NateDrake and Kat Bailey (IGN News Director) speculate on the Switch 2 launch window
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There is nothing here.
Its literally just them going "we expect the release date to be 6months after the reveal", but they don't know when the reveal will be.
My uninformed speculation is that since nintendo already said the switch 2 will be revealed this FY, that it is also going to be released this FY.
Its literally just them going "we expect the release date to be 6months after the reveal", but they don't know when the reveal will be.
My uninformed speculation is that since nintendo already said the switch 2 will be revealed this FY, that it is also going to be released this FY.
I mean, they can't launch Switch 2 without good launch games. I'm sure the hardware is not the blocker, but rather the lack of AAA games ready for launch this year, so they're probably working on a new mario and that takes time.
Well people say this shit every year, eventually someone gonna be right.
Ugh i'm just sick of the aging system and devs releasing badly running games on it. I want a new more powerful one already so i can actually start buying non first party things on it again.
Ugh i'm just sick of the aging system and devs releasing badly running games on it. I want a new more powerful one already so i can actually start buying non first party things on it again.
I agree with this. A lot of my friends that were really into switch in the early days are over it. We'll see if Nintendo can bring them back in, but it would've been easier if Switch 2 was 2022 or 2023
They could reveal it in March 2025 for an October release (similar to the initial plan for Switch before the delay)
Switch sales in the latest quarter were only 300k less than ps5 though. Despite the only first party software being Endless ocean, a gamecube remaster and Luigi's mansion 2 remaster right at the end of the quarter.
Ah yes. Nintendo should rush out the hardware and release with not enough games ready.
The title is misleading...
- MVG & Kat were speculating that the Switch 2 may be Holiday 2025
- NateDrake maintains his expectation of H1 2025 for the Switch 2's launch
Yes, just speculation. Not even informed speculation.
You can take the reveal month and add 5-6 months to most likely get the releaase date.
In two months and some change we will in all likelyhood know (by announcement or rule out) if March is still on the table. And then we can eliminate each corresponding month up until March of next year (when the president of Nintendo said it would be revealed by).
So no real need to get heated up about some comments on a podcast, but hey go ahead.
In two months and some change we will in all likelyhood know (by announcement or rule out) if March is still on the table. And then we can eliminate each corresponding month up until March of next year (when the president of Nintendo said it would be revealed by).
So no real need to get heated up about some comments on a podcast, but hey go ahead.
There was no delay, that was false "reporting".
October isn't Holidays though
Sounds about right, Metroid 4 will still be on Switch, it can carry them through 2025 together with a few more titles we don't know about yet.
Way too late if true, I'm tired of the Switch already, been holding off on playing anything this year until Switch 2
Yeah, it's gotta be noted, this is speculation.
I think by the end of the year we'll have a better sense of when it's coming. The Switch was first revealed October 2016 so I think if the Switch 2 is revealed this year then a first half of next year launch is absolutely on the table. Especially if some kind of Switch 2 event is announced for early next year.
Also, it's less that it won't have gimmicks (it almost certainly will) but I would guess it just won't have NEW gimmicks. It'll have the same gimmicks as the Switch.
To give a full summary of what they said:
- They're assuming since Nintendo said they will "announce new hardware this fiscal year," they won't launch it this fiscal year
- They're then taking this assumption to speculate about when the Switch 2 would launch, if this assumption is true
- With this in context, MVG and Kat said around September timeframe
Y'all gotta stop making threads over every random podcast musing and passing it off as reporting. Media literacy is in the toilet around here.
I believe it and it's fine tbh.
It ain't the 2017 one-two punch of Breath of the Wild and Odyssey, but I'd consider it far from Wii 2012.
What is a "dead year"? We have a new Mario Party, DKCR, new Mario & Luigi, new Zelda, and then next year we got Metroid Prime 4 and a new Pokemon Legends game.
It ain't the 2017 one-two punch of Breath of the Wild and Odyssey, but I'd consider it far from Wii 2012.
I just picked up a Switch OLED from Japan on an impulse so this news makes me happy. Was worried my purchase would be immediately invalidated if Nintendo announced a 2024 Switch 2 release.
I watched the entire thing earlier today while working out and I swear Nate was more in favor of first half (with closer to June) being the release, while MVG and Kat thought September was more likely, but dare posed to consider the holiday for a potential release.
Did OP even watch? Or just take a random discord message and rush to post a thread? So many people on the first two pages are taking this as information as if it's actually what was said, not even stating it was the host's speculation, or anything.
Did OP even watch? Or just take a random discord message and rush to post a thread? So many people on the first two pages are taking this as information as if it's actually what was said, not even stating it was the host's speculation, or anything.
You can't dismiss Pokemon Legends Z-A. That 2025 is not a dead year.
They've already said they're announcing this FY.
Even if they push that to March, it would be uncharacteristic of them to reveal in March for a holiday release for hardware. A holiday release would probably mean that something went real pear-shaped with software.
Even if they push that to March, it would be uncharacteristic of them to reveal in March for a holiday release for hardware. A holiday release would probably mean that something went real pear-shaped with software.
Nintendo repeating the mistakes of Wii-WiiU transition again if this is true! Switch2 must have VR/AR and dual screens or it's toast lol!
SWOLED is a great device, nothing Nintendo announces or shows will change that.
Not really tbh, besides 1 or 2 titles in the later half it was a mediocre year tbh
I'll eat my hat if it's Holiday 2025. It's going to launch early in the year, just like the first Switch. They just don't have enough Switch software to get them to Holiday 2025 without, like, a 6-month release desert. Stuff like Metroid Prime 4, which is coming early 2025, is obviously being prepped for a crossgen Switch 2 release. Also, I fully expect there will be some new gimmick. Maybe not a particularly game-changing one, but we're not just getting a Switch carbon copy with better chips inside.
