We will be holding a Nintendo Direct this June regarding the Nintendo Switch software lineup for the latter half of 2024, but please be aware that there will be no mention of the Nintendo Switch successor during that presentation.
This is Furukawa, President of Nintendo. 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. We will be holding a Nintendo Direct…
— 任天堂株式会社（企業広報・IR） (@NintendoCoLtd) May 7, 2024
by Amiibofan101
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Finally
I like how everyone is asleep for this one. Classic moment. Anyways probably an October reveal for a March release again. Why change what worked so well last time. Hopefully the Direct in June sends the Switch off with a bang. They haven’t announced a Direct this far in advance in some time. Not since E3 was a thing.
Is this the first time Nintendo has officially acknowledged they’re working on a successor of the Switch?
Will probably be announced during Q3 then?
There we go, *acknowledgement*. Seems however we won’t actually hear about the thing until fall or maybe even next year.
I love that OP completely disregarded the biggest announcement in that tweet!
They plan to announce the next console before the end of this fiscal year!
Okay I’m calling it now. It’s going to drop alongside Pokemon ZA and Metroid Prime 4 with both being cross-gen games.
I appreciate knowing in advance. So much better than being left in the dark.
Soon soon™ will be soon©
Just to be clear, this isn’t a silk song definition of a year right?
Finally!!! Both announcements are exciting and pretty sure Nintendo will repeat what they did with the switch: 1- October reveal 2- January presentation 3- release on March/April 2025.
Full tweet:
> This is Furukawa, President of Nintendo.
**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. We will be holding a Nintendo Direct this June regarding the Nintendo Switch software lineup for the latter half of 2024, but please be aware that there will be no mention of the Nintendo Switch successor during that presentation.
[Everyone right now](https://i.imgur.com/bXLyyQd.jpeg)
I’m very curious what their game lineup will be like in the 2nd half of this year. Hopefully it’s not too barren, although historically it has been a wasteland for Nintendo machines’ final moments.
Here come the essays and speculation videos on this brief statement
So do you y’all think they’re going to announce the Switch 2 at the June direct?!?!
/s
I will cry if Prime 4 slips out of this generation
**Edit**
Nintendo Japan’s Fiscal year, so…
Before end of March 2025?
Given that the switch, which released in March 2017 was really presented in October with a big January direct, I expect something slightly similar …albeit this time the wiiU is not the current home console so there’s less rush
We’ll hear more about it in September/October I bet, quite curious about the June direct now What will be the ambition here:
wind waker hd or metroid prime 4 I have no idea but can’t wait
Thanks goodness for this tweet. We can now put to bed any meaningless speculation about Switch 2 announcement until well after June.
I swear I clicked here thinking it was bait, after so many rumors I can’t believe that we finally have a real and official statement, it’s crazy to think.
I’m pretty excited about the Switch’s successor, I just hope Nintendo improves on some things. (I know a lot of people talk about “having better hardware” but I would really like to see an improvement in the online service in general too, that’s something I really think Nintendo could learn from the competition)
I’m not ready.
Wow, it’s been so long without any kind of official word on the Switch 2 that it feels surreal to see Furukawa actually acknowledging its existence, even if it is just to say that they won’t be talking about it in the next Direct.
Also they confirmed a Direct one whole month in advance! I’m not sure if that’s ever happened before, but it’s not often that we have direct confirmation of this kind of thing so early.
But… But… This board said there will be no Switch successor.
Remember: I’ll believe it when I see it 🤓☝️
Working title: The Sequel to the Nintendo Switch
Can’t wait for the angry posts after the Direct anyways about how there was no announcement of the next console
Hoping for Wind Waker and Twilight Princess HD.
I’m more interested in the launch lineup than anything else.
They’re sitting on a lot of IPs that could be absolutely bangers for launch.
This gives me some time to save up money 🙂
Announcing that the June Direct will not feature Switch 2 is clever, so people won’t go in with such expectations. (And the live chat being flooded with “where switch 2”)
Fiiiinally lol.
Curious what we could actually see in this direct. I think the main thing should be finally giving us Wind Waker and Twilight Princess.
I’d say this is a clear indication the successor isn’t coming until next year and Nintendo has at least 2-3 first/second party games to announce for the Switch’s final holiday season.
I’m hoping at least one of them is a Starfox game. Either a port of Starfox Zero with more traditional controls and improved graphics or a full-on remake of Starfox and/or Starfox 64.
I wouldn’t be surprise if there was a smaller-scale Mario or Zelda game coming too.
Just got my switch oled a week ago… least give me a year with it before I have to upgrade lol. Btw best console, can’t believe I took this long to get it.
So these games announced will be the last games released for the switch.
Is it finally time for windwaker and twilight princess??
This is the first time nintendo acknowledged existence of switch succesor
October – November 2024: First reveal Trailer (1-2min)
January – February 2025: Official Switch Successor Presentation (30-45min)
March – April 2025: Switch Successor launch.
This will definitely be the timeline. Calling it