Nintendo Switch 2 rumours, from release date delays to specs and pricing
The popularity of the Nintendo Switch shows no sign of waning. Despite being seven years old (practically elderly in the world of video games), Nintendo’s family-friendly console is still selling in its millions. The company has now sold an eye-watering 139.36 million units in total.
But while the Nintendo Switch still reigns supreme, the console is getting a bit long in the tooth, lagging behind in terms of technical hardware. In an earnings call last May, Nintendo’s president Shuntaro Furukawa admitted that “sustaining the Switch’s sales momentum [would] be difficult in its seventh year”.
Yet the Nintendo Switch 2 is still going strong. After seeing positive sales of the console over the festive period, earlier this month Nintendo raised its 2024 hardware sales forecast by half a million. But with the current console’s ageing internals, a Nintendo Switch 2 is surely coming soon.
While we saw the launch of the a few years ago, it was a minor upgrade – the console everyone’s impatiently waiting for is the Nintendo Switch 2. But, according to new reports, the follow-up console has been pushed back, and the release date of the true next-generation machine may not arrive until next year. Now, the latest rumours suggest it could be as powerful as
