UK regulators may have just inadvertently confirmed the existence of an as of yet unreleased Nintendo Switch 2 console.
The Competition and Markets Authority are dealing with the Microsoft-Activision deal here in the UK, with their initial findings stating that Microsoft successfully buying Activision Blizzard could “harm” UK gamers. They even suggested that Call of Duty could be removed from the deal entirely as a compromise for the deal to go through. Now, they may have accidentally confirmed that the Nintendo Switch 2 is coming.
Hidden away in an extremely large document, published by the CMA, is a peculiar line during a section talking about cloud gaming. They mention they had not included Nintendo Switch Online in their reporting about cloud gaming as “Nintendo’s cloud gaming service is very limited” which is very true. The next line however is the interesting one: “Nintendo’s cloud gaming service is only available on the Nintendo Switch device and [REDACTED]” which certainly seems to imply that there will be a successor to the Nintendo Switch.
