Switch 2 is an open secret. The second generation of the Nintendo console is in the final stages of its market launch spring 2025. There have been dozens of articles devoted to this, but with little or no official information. Now Nintendo President and CEO Shuntaro Furukawa has made some key statements regarding the same.

“We announced this at today’s corporate governance policy briefing The current Nintendo Switch software will also be playable on its successor«, Furukawa wrote in Xwhich also confirms “Nintendo Switch Online will also be available on the Nintendo Switch successor console”.

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The truth is that we didn’t expect a scenario other than a high degree of backwards compatibility, which should translate into the fact that the vast majority of current Switch games will be playable on the Switch 2. And that users who buy new games now will be a guaranteed investment , if he buys a new console one day.

Another important announcement from Furukawa was the confirmation that a new console will be introduced before Nintendo’s fiscal year end on March 31, 2025. Just because it’s before that date doesn’t mean it’s in for now… Yesterday we talked about a strategy to reduce the inventory of the current version by selling as many units as possible in the next Christmas season (including Black Friday 2024 ).

And so the Switch 2 isn’t expected to be available until spring 2025, although a different calendar was used with the original Switch. Nintendo announced it in October 2016 and launched it in March 2017. A strategy that was considered unconventional at the time, but which proved successful: by October 2024, the console had sold 146 million units, making it one of the most successful consoles of big N

However, shows the passage of time (also among the longest-lived), as confirmed by financial results released this week that show a year-over-year decline in Switch hardware and software sales. In fact, the company lowered its projected sales targets until the end of the fiscal year in March 2025.

Nintendo’s president ignored any reference to hardware specs in the announcements, although he did comment on it «More information will be announced soon about the successor console Nintendo Switch, including its compatibility ». If the rumors are true, the Switch 2 will retain the form factor to achieve this gaming versatility on the go or in the living room, with an 8-inch LCD display, magnetically attachable Joy-Con controllers, 12GB of LPDDR5X RAM and a semi-custom chip based on NVIDIA graphics chip technology RTX 3000.