The following Nintendo console — the Swap 2, Tremendous Swap, no matter you wish to name it — might not be releasing till 2025, new rumours are suggesting.
Brazilian journalist Pedro Henrique Lutti Lippe (through VGC) made this declare within the O X do Controle podcast after consulting 5 completely different sources, who’ve all reportedly said that the follow-up to the hybrid console will likely be launching in 2025.
Within the wake of Lippe’s tweet, a number of different retailers are seemingly corroborating this assertion. VGC’s Andy Robinson has heard related issues, together with that two builders are engaged on Swap 2 video games that are deliberate to be launched in early 2025, although was unable to verify if that meant the console can be launching alongside them.
As with every hearsay, we’re taking this with an enormous pinch of salt. We can’t know something till Nintendo makes an official announcement.
Nonetheless, Eurogamer is one other outlet that’s reporting the same timeline, saying that it “related whispers of an early 2025 launch from trade sources this week”, although it has not been capable of concretely substantiate them. The outlet has reached out to Nintendo for additional remark.
Simply yesterday, over on Famiboards, NateTheHate reiterated {that a} potential 2025 launch for the brand new console may very well be on the playing cards and that the one certainty is that “The approaching [fiscal year] is the one secure wager, imo”. Nintendo’s fiscal yr is decided by the calendar month it ends in, so meaning FY 2025 would run from April 2024 to March 2025.
As all the time, these rumours ought to completely be taken with an enormous pinch of salt. We can’t know something till Nintendo is able to announce the Swap 2 itself. And, at this charge, that may very well be each time. Some rumours have been pointing in direction of a March 2024 reveal (through NateTheHate), however whether or not that holds up — notably if the console is not due out till 2025 — stays to be seen.
Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa has averted questions in regards to the subsequent console, stating throughout a convention name following the corporate’s Q3 monetary report that the Swap was nonetheless the “most important enterprise”. He declined to touch upon a brand new console, saying that Nintendo is all the time researching new {hardware}/software program.