There’s mounting speculation Nintendo is opting to delay the launch of the Nintendo Switch 2 until 2025 — to avoid the kind of supply chain issues that plagued the PS5 launch. That seems to be compounded by the news this week that the company is skipping Gamescom 2024. Instead, Nintendo told GamesIndustry.biz that players can “try out the games for Nintendo Switch as part of other Germany-wide events.”
My takeaway is there may be a quiet release calendar for the aging Switch in the latter half of the year as Mario & Co get ready for the jump to the next platform. What will that new platform look like? Probably it’ll be markedly similar to the current Switch, albeit with more power. It seems pretty certain the next Switch will run a custom Nvidia processor with a bump in RAM — possibly to 8GB — and (fingers crossed) a 4K output to take advantage of the best TVs.
