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[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Nintendo will release a successor to the Nintendo Switch game console in March 2025. Like the Switch, it is expected to be a game console that has the features of both a stationary and portable version. Many in the industry predicted that it would be released in 2024, but we prioritized taking measures to prevent resale and securing an initial stock of successor machines and an assortment of popular software from the time of release.

The successor model will have a larger screen than the Switch (6.2 inches for the standard model), and will be able to play games that feature higher-definition image quality.

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ニンテンドースイッチ後継機、2025年3月にも発売へ - 日本経済新聞

任天堂はゲーム機「ニンテンドースイッチ」の後継機を2025年3月にも発売する。スイッチ同様に据え置き型と携帯型の両方の特徴を備えたゲーム機となる見通し。業界では24年の発売を予想する声が多かったが、転売防止対策などで後継機の初期在庫や発売当初の有力ソフトの品ぞろえを確保することを優先した。後継機はスイッチ（標準モデルは6.2インチ）を超える大画面を採用し、より高精細な画質を売りにするゲームにも

www.nikkei.com

Edit: Here's The Verge article on this new Nikkei report

 

[Lupin3]

No hope.

 

[Dcr1d3r]

Looks like the rest of the article is behind a paywall.

ニンテンドースイッチ後継機、2025年3月にも発売へ - 日本経済新聞

任天堂はゲーム機「ニンテンドースイッチ」の後継機を2025年3月にも発売する。スイッチ同様に据え置き型と携帯型の両方の特徴を備えたゲーム機となる見通し。業界では24年の発売を予想する声が多かったが、転売防止対策などで後継機の初期在庫や発売当初の有力ソフトの品ぞろえを確保することを優先した。後継機はスイッチ（標準モデルは6.2インチ）を超える大画面を採用し、より高精細な画質を売りにするゲームにも

www.nikkei.com

 

[killatopak]

Can Switch 2 run GTA6 by then? It’ll be huge if it does.

 

[Hohenheim]

Can Switch 2 run GTA6 by then? It’ll be huge if it does.

GTA6 is probably not out by then. And a potential "switch 2" version would probably be stripped to hell and back.
A cloud stream version seems like a safer bet.

 

[ManaByte]

Can Switch 2 run GTA6 by then? It’ll be huge if it does.

Only the PS5 Pro will be able to run GTA6

 

[jm89]

Can Switch 2 run GTA6 by then? It’ll be huge if it does.

GTA5 at 30 fps

 

[Andyliini]

Nikkei is usually right about these, so this is probably true. That would mean Switch had an 8 year run before a successor was released. Xbox 360 did a similar run from 2005 to 2013. Not sure if there are others.

 

[Oberstein]

Well, I guess we can finally say goodbye to 2024. That's a lot of clues pointing to the following year. And from serious sources.

But at least there's more chance of a cross-gen Metroid IV now.

 

[Mister Wolf]

We all figured this would be the case. I just want to know what quality games they have planned for Switch this year.

 

[ManaByte]

Pretty hilarious how the Nintendo console everyone thought would flop is going to end up being the highest selling video game console in history.

Betting time: Do you think the Switch will be a success?

I always love to retrospectively read GAF's prediction threads and see how many crows are being served, the thread placing WiiU/XB first and Sony disappearing or failing with the PS4 before this gen started is so much fun! So now that we have enough details about the price, specs, launch line...

www.neogaf.com

 

[Kuranghi]

Can Switch 2 run GTA6 by then? It’ll be huge if it does.

I'm gonna say Nyoes.

The issue is gonna be memory and CPU power limitations, you can always crush the resolution, effects and such down but there's a limit to how much you can reduce the impact of the first two things without either changing the gameplay experience fundamentally or it just running at sub 30fps with large pauses when loading new content in the open world.

I'm sure there are now chips that could bypass some of these issues, but they're all far too expensive to be put in the Switch 2, and even if they were they still rely on other components that are too big to put in a handheld.

This post comes courtesy of Kuranghi's semi-semi-knowledgeable computering expertise while he drinks his coffee in bed, please don't take it too seriously and do your own research to find out the actual reasons why it's difficult to have next gen open worlds on a handheld.

Kuranghi

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

Can Switch 2 run GTA6 by then? It’ll be huge if it does.

No way

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Can Switch 2 run GTA6 by then? It’ll be huge if it does.

Depends how much RAM the Switch 2 comes with. If it has 12GB I think there's a possibility they could make a lower fidelity version of GTA6 based on the Series S SKU of the game.

 

[tusharngf]

 

[Hip Hop]

Pretty hilarious how the Nintendo console everyone thought would flop is going to end up being the highest selling video game console in history.

Betting time: Do you think the Switch will be a success?

I always love to retrospectively read GAF's prediction threads and see how many crows are being served, the thread placing WiiU/XB first and Sony disappearing or failing with the PS4 before this gen started is so much fun! So now that we have enough details about the price, specs, launch line...

www.neogaf.com

I'm on the first page of that thread, it keeps getting brought back from time to time lol

 

[IDKFA]

Good. It gives Nintendo longer to prepare a strong launch lineup.

I'm going with Metroid Prime 4, Mario mainline and Mario Kart 9 as first party launch games.

Can Switch 2 run GTA6 by then? It’ll be huge if it does

I highly doubt it. It'll be able to run GTA5, but GTA 6 might be a step too far.

 

[ManaByte]

I'm going with Metroid Prime 4, Mario mainline and Mario Kart 9 as first party launch games.

You’ll get one of those. This is Nintendo.

 

[AV]

Yeah, been saying this for a long time now and I think many others have too. Things just line up too perfectly.

Will be saving a few hundreds quid from my wedding gifts for this I reckon, need something to do on the honeymoon when she's snoring the mornings away...

 

[AV]

You’ll get one of those. This is Nintendo.

MK8 actually didn't drop for Switch for nearly 2 months, easy to forgot that and Odyssey being almost a year later. I think we were all so blown away by BOTW we forgot.

 

[KungFucius]

MK8 actually didn't drop for Switch for nearly 2 months, easy to forgot that and Odyssey being almost a year later. I think we were all so blown away by BOTW we forgot.

Odyssey came out in October I think. 7 months and change after launch. They also had Splatoon 2 out a few months after launch. There was basically always something new coming out that first year and that kept the units hard to find.

 

[Luipadre]

Gimme new 3D mario and mario kart day 1 and i'll be there

 

[Hudo]

Pretty hilarious how the Nintendo console everyone thought would flop is going to end up being the highest selling video game console in history.

Betting time: Do you think the Switch will be a success?

I always love to retrospectively read GAF's prediction threads and see how many crows are being served, the thread placing WiiU/XB first and Sony disappearing or failing with the PS4 before this gen started is so much fun! So now that we have enough details about the price, specs, launch line...

www.neogaf.com

I remember that thread. GAF loved to shit on Michael Pachter but boy, this forum is just as bad with its takes.

 

[AV]

Odyssey came out in October I think. 7 months and change after launch. They also had Splatoon 2 out a few months after launch. There was basically always something new coming out that first year and that kept the units hard to find.

Yeah, all release window rather than at launch itself. Depends on your definition of "launch games" I guess.

It was quite funny being one of the apparently few people using Amazon Prime in the UK at the time, regular Amazon didn't have launch day Switches (few places did) but I remember opening the Prime app when I woke up and seeing a Switch + BOTW bundle just sitting there for same-day delivery. Hell of a Friday.

 

[Horseganador]

They are extending the life of the Switch too much, the console needs a replacement for yesterday.

 

[Hudo]

Which means a reveal would be like this December or so? I highly doubt that Nintendo gonna reveal Switch 2 this MarchApril (as some "leakers" suggested) when the release is a year away.

 

[Emedan]

ffs a year off then...

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

Sounds like they really want to try to dethrone PS2, lol.
Not that I believe it’s possible at this point, unless they have a killer hit for the holidays (and many people who sold their Switch in the meantime will hold and wait to play it on Switch 2 anyway). It would be the most glorious day in the history of console wars, but I don’t think we’ll see it.

Then again, we’ve heard so many rumors by now that there’s really no reason to believe this one in particular.
Back to waiting…

 

[MagnesD3]

God dammit nintendo

 

[Davevil]

 

[HerjansEagleFeeder]

Super hyped for "assortment of popular software"

 

[daclynk]

looks like i was right.

 

[lh032]

Can Switch 2 run GTA6 by then? It’ll be huge if it does.

yes it can, via cloud.

 

[daclynk]

some people forget that GTAV was a PS360 game.

 

[daclynk]

It'll be able to run GTA5

i know switch can run both GTAIV and GTAV

Edit: sorry for double post

 

[kazuyamishima]

Do most Nintendo users believe it will launch between $349-399 and have the power closer to the PS5 and be able to run almost everything? Or it’s still a pipe dream?

 

[Fbh]

Damn that's still a year away. I guess it gives them extra time to prepare a strong lineup.
Year 1 of the Switch is still the best year it ever had: BotW, Mario Odyssey, Xenoblade 2 , etc

Do most Nintendo users believe it will launch between $349-399 and have the power closer to the PS5 and be able to run almost everything? Or it’s still a pipe dream?

Close to Ps5 performance for less money, in a portable form factor and with a company that generally doesn't sell hardware at a loss?
No way.

 

[Serouj2000]

Well, I guess we can finally say goodbye to 2024. That's a lot of clues pointing to the following year. And from serious sources.

But at least there's more chance of a cross-gen Metroid IV now.

Weird that you're saying that about a game that is already out

 

[deriks]

GTA6 is probably not out by then. And a potential "switch 2" version would probably be stripped to hell and back.
A cloud stream version seems like a safer bet.

The hardware will probably be at PS4 levels, so chances are that could run with a RDR2 level of optimization. Will Rockstar do it? Can't see it, but we can also be surprised

@thread
Makes sense launching by the start of the fiscal year. I'm all aboard this train, baby

 

[Interfectum]

They must be running into software issues because Switch 2 needs to come out like now... not a year from now. Pretty crazy we have to go through another Christmas without it.

So Switch Lite OLED this year? Any takers?

 

[AngelMuffin]

100% fine with this. Was dreading trying to get one preordered at retail so hopefully the larger launch stock will mitigate that to a point.

Metroid Prime 4 still needs to release this Fall with an upgraded option available for the Switch 2 in March.

 

[IDKFA]

You’ll get one of those. This is Nintendo.

In my dreams we get all of those, plus a dark violent, full 3D, adult themed Animal Crossing game.

 

[Bond007]

We were all expecting 2024.
I guess from their standpoint they can milk it another year and create additional hype and stock. It also allows them to launch alone rather than any sort of comparisons with PS5 Pro - warranted or not.

 

[ManaByte]

In my dreams we get all of those, plus a dark violent, full 3D, adult themed Animal Crossing game.

I’m still waiting for Kirby Souls.

 

[Trunx81]

Nintendo doesn´t have the NEED to release a Switch 2 this year. It´s not the 90s anymore where the company who released early would win the race.
Only thing I´m worried about is that the hardware will by then be already old news. But remember: The NVidia shield released in 2015, the Switch with same hardware in 2017. So by next year, the Tegra X1 will be 10 years old!

 

[Celcius]

Sigh, I guess 2024 isn’t going to be the year I had hoped it would be.
What’s next… the PS5 Pro isn’t even real?

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Can Switch 2 run GTA6 by then? It’ll be huge if it does.

The same way it runs games like Hogwart's Legacy and Witcher 3, but probably.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Only thing I´m worried about is that the hardware will by then be already old news.

Every time Nintendo tried to go high tech it ended badly (GC, WiiU). I don't think it will be as powerful as a Steam Deck.

 

[IDKFA]

I’m still waiting for Kirby Souls.

That would be amazing.

Nintendo really should experiment with their IPs and make them more adult themed.

 

[amigastar]

Can Switch 2 run GTA6 by then? It’ll be huge if it does.

That's a question i ask myself, also. Would be awesome if it did.