Nintendo Switch 2 may not come out before April 2025, President Furukawa suggests

Nintendo Switch 2 may not make it to store shelves before April 2025at least according to the words of the company president, Shuntaro Furukawain the transcribed version of the Q&A that took place earlier this week.

In particular, the information is linked to a specific sentence by Furukawa, who declared that the estimated sales forecast for the current fiscal year (April 1, 2024 – March 31, 2025) do not include potential sales of the big N’s next console, therefore suggesting a market debut from April 1 onwards.

“Sales forecasts for this period they do not include sales of the Nintendo Switch successor” Furukawa said, according to the translation made by GamesIndustry.biz.

For completeness, Nintendo said that during the current fiscal year it expects hardware sales to decline 20% year over year, for a total of 13.5 million Nintendo Switch units solda difficult goal to achieve, but not impossible according to Furukawa and which we discussed in a special special on the future of Nintendo Switch.

Also in the document, the president of Nintendo states that the company “has not yet discussed launch timing” of the next console and the fact that it was not counted in the sales forecasts could indicate a launch after March 31st.

However, this is a clue, but not a confirmation: the Kyoto company could publish the new console even before this date and integrate it into the sales forecasts for the current fiscal year at a later time.

The first official details on Nintendo Switch 2

In short, we will need to be patient for several more months. Looking at the glass half full, the company has confirmed that the official announcement of Nintendo Switch 2 will take place by March 31, 2025. The official announcement of Nintendo Switch 2 will take place by March 31, 2025, so it is reasonable to expect a presentation with great fanfare towards the end of the year or in the first months of next year.

Furukawa also said that the most appropriate way to describe the new console is to call it “the next Switch model”, suggesting that the new hardware will not differ much from the idea of ​​portable hardware that can also be connected to the TV. Furthermore, he confirmed that it will be possible to transfer your Nintendo Account from Nintendo Switch to the next console. It will be possible to transfer your Nintendo Account from Nintendo Switch to the next console.

Update: we have changed the text of the news to make it clearer that, although Nintendo Switch 2 is not considered in the sales forecasts for the fiscal year ending on March 31, 2025, it does not a priori exclude a launch in stores before that date.