Nintendo has finally announced Nintendo Switch 2, a successor to Nintendo Switch, which is scheduled to be released in the first half of 2025. The official announcement at Nintendo Direct on April 2 and the limited event held in Paris from April 4th to 6th, this hybrid game console promises performance improvement and partially compatible Switch games. 。 See the details and how to participate in the preview!
Finally, news about Nintendo Switch 2 has jumped in! The successor to Big N’s popular hybrid game console appears in early 2025. On January 16, 2025, Nintendo released a preview video of a new game console and took off the veil. A series of global events, including events in Paris, are scheduled from April 4 to 6, 2025, and will give a small number of lucky people to test game consoles in advance.
Following the previous hybrid concept, you can also select mobile mode and TV play. Equipped with a chip jointly developed with NVIDIA, it is higher performance, compatible with DLSS and other technologies, and optimizes fluidity and image quality. Nintendo said in a press release, “Some Nintendo Switch titles are not compatible with Nintendo Switch 2, and may not be completely compatible,” and announced a partial backward compatibility of the Switch game. 。
Therefore, there is concern that the newly released Nintendo Switch 2 will be the prey of resale, but according to the information obtained by Bloomberg from the industry, Nintendo will be released in 2025, when Nintendo Switch 2 will be released. It is said that we are preparing to ship 20 million units.
Nintendo Switch, the predecessor model, has 2.74 million units worldwide worldwide, with about 10 million units released within 2017. However, Nintendo Switch has been released for about 9 months until the end of 2017, but it is said that the release of Nintendo Switch 2 will be around June, so Nintendo Switch is about 9 months. Nintendo Switch 2 will be shipped twice the amount of shipments that have been achieved over time in just six months.
Nintendo was asked by shareholders at a general meeting of shareholders held in July 2024 about resale measures for next -generation game consoles such as Nintendo Switch 2. On the other hand, Shuntaro Furukawa states that it is most important to produce the number of units that can meet the demand as a resale measure, so that the measures will be prepared to be able to ship 20 million units in six months. is.
Bloomberg information is shipped in 2025, and securing the number of shipments at the time of release, which is the highest demand, is also important for resale measures. In this regard, the leak information that appeared in the past plans to ship about 2.5 times the shipment of Nintendo Switch, which is about 2.5 times the number of shipments, and this is 7 million units worldwide. It will be the calculation that will be available immediately afterwards. Therefore, if there are so many units, it will be possible to deliver Nintendo Switch 2 near the release date smoothly, and at the same time, resellers who do not know prior information such as shipments will have a large amount of stock. It can be said that there is also an expectation.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Experience the host city and schedule. All dates are local.
North America:
- New York, April 4-6, 2025
- Los Angeles, April 11-13, 2025
- Dallas, April 25-27, 2025
- Toronto, April 25-27, 2025
Europe:
- Paris, April 4-6, 2025
- London, April 11-13, 2025
- Milan, April 25-27, 2025
- Berlin, April 25-27, 2025
- Madrid, May 9-11, 2025
- Amsterdam, May 9-11, 2025
Oceania:
- Melbourne, May 10-11, 2025
Asia:
- Tokyo (Makhari), April 26-27, 2025
- Seoul, May 31st -June 1, 2025
- Hong Kong will be announced
- Taipei will be announced
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