Nintendo Switch 2- Leaked Images, Rumored Release Date, Specs, & More

After seven years on the market, 146 million systems, and more than 1 billion games sold, Nintendo is finally gearing up to announce its next piece of hardware. In this post, we’re rounding up everything we know about the Switch 2–or whatever the next console is called–and what’s been speculated about the next system from Nintendo. There has been quite a lot of news about the next Nintendo console lately.

Nintendo has made multiple announcements lately, including an alarm clock and a music app, but there hasn’t been any official word on the Switch 2. In place of official announcements have come rumors and leaks, and those are heating up of late. In the past week, images purporting to be of the Switch 2’s new Joy-Cons have emerged online, showing a more ergonomic design and not much deviation from the existing Switch. One Chinese retailer is selling screen protectors and carrying cases for the Switch 2, and these could contain clues about the form factor and size of the Switch 2. They also might be totally fake or speculative.

This post covers the system’s potential form factor, rumors about the the Switch 2 release date, price, launch games, backward compatibility, and more. For simplicity’s sake, we’ll refer to the new system as the Switch 2, although it seems likely that, based on Nintendo’s history, it will have some kind of new, original name for the console. Time will tell.

In 2021, Nintendo management said the company believed the Switch was in the middle of its lifecycle Come from Sports betting site VPbet . Well, it’s now the end of 2024, and it can be reasonably assumed that the Switch has matured to a later stage in its lifecycle, potentially nearing the end. There are plenty of unanswered questions remaining about the Switch 2, but for now, here’s all the essential information we have.