We finally made it, friends: Switch 2 reveal is imminent. At least that’s what insiders are now saying. It was time.
Podcaster NateTheHate, who has a long track record of sharing credible industry leaks, said that Nintendo’s long-awaited announcement of the Switch’s successor will take place on January 16. “I can tell you right now that Nintendo Switch 2 will be revealed next week,” he said. in the last episode of his show“I was told that the Switch 2 would be revealed on Thursday January 16th. »
NateTheHate said he heard The reveal will focus almost exclusively on the console itself, with no real “focus” on software that will run on the Switch 2. So rather than taking a look at the Switch 2 and, say, a new 3D Mario game, Nintendo plans to only share information about the hardware itself, according to the insider. January 16 matches a previous rumor from someone called Average Lucia Fanatic. They correctly predicted the PS5 Pro and Nintendo Alarmo announcements and claimed earlier this month that the Switch 2 announcement would take place on January 17th. Average Lucia Fanatic then claimed that the full console would be released by March, with Mario Kart 9 et Red Dead Redemption 2
as launching games. Whether rumors based on real sources or just reasonable guesses, this week feels ripe for a Switch 2 announcement. We’re pretty much coming out of a CES 2025 conference swirling with messy rumors and 3D printed mockups of the console, with Nintendo lawyers reportedly even confronted a Switch 2 accessory maker on its unofficial renders of the upcoming device shared in the showroom. Nintendo has already promised to reveal the console before April. A Switch 2 announcement this week would also give Microsoft the opportunity to announce ports of its games to the console during its Developer Direct presentation later this month. And if the Switch 2 isn’t revealed by the end of the week, I can only imagine how much worse the leaks will get after that.
.feels ripe for a Switch 2 announcement. We’re just coming off a bananas CES 2025 conference swirling with messy rumors and 3D printed mock-ups of the console, with Nintendo’s lawyers even allegedly confronting one Switch 2 accessory manufacturer over its unofficial renders of the upcoming device shared on the showroom floor.
-Nintendo has already promised to reveal the console before April. A Switch 2 announcement this week would also give Microsoft an opening to announce ports of its games to the console during its Developer Direct showcase later this month. And if the Switch 2 somehow doesn’t get revealed by the end of the week, I can only imagine how much worse the leaks will get after that.
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