Nintendo has announced that the successor for the Switch will be revealed within this fiscal year, which ends in April 2025.
Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa took to the Nintendo’s Japanese Twitter account, saying, “We will make an announcement about the successor to Nintendo Switch within this fiscal year. It will have been over nine years since we announced the existence of Nintendo Switch back in March 2015.”
As part of an earnings call, Furukawa was asked about the nature of the new system. According to MST Financial analyst David Gibson, he responded, “Switch next model is the appropriate way to describe it,” indicating the new system won’t be a massive departure from the original Switch. Previous Nintendo consoles–going from GameCube to Wii to Wii U to Switch–saw radical changes to the basic concept of the hardware.
In the tweet, Furukawa also said that there will be a Nintendo Direct presentation this June showcasing content for the latter half of 2024, but it won’t contain any information about the Nintendo Switch successor.
There were rumors that the Switch successor was going to launch sometime this year, but recent reports suggest that it was pushed back to 2025 instead.
The device will reportedly have magnetic Joy-Con controllers rather than the rail-equipped ones that the current Switch uses. However, the Pro controller is expected to be backwards compatible with the successor.