Insider claims Nintendo Switch 2 will launch later than expected

The first-gen Nintendo Switch was first announced in March of 2015, making the gaming handheld over nine years old now. This makes the hardware inside the console quite dated, especially when compared to the recently released gaming handhelds (ROG Ally X available on Best Buy).

Recent reports claimed that the Nintendo Switch 2 will make its debut in March 2025, but Chris Dring from Games Industry says that's unlikely to happen. Chris claims that none of the developers he has spoken to expect the new gaming handheld to launch in this financial year, which ends in March 2025.

Chris shared this info on the latest episode of the GI Microcast podcast, and he added that the developers were instead asked to expect the handheld console to launch later. However, most of the developers Chris spoke to hope that Nintendo will release the Switch 2 in April or May 2025.

Of course, this doesn't mean that Nintendo won't officially reveal anything about the Switch successor before the end of March 2025. In May of this year, Shuntaro Furukawa, the current president of the company, shared that Nintendo will "make an announcement" about the Switch 2 "within this fiscal year."

A delayed launch after the first official announcement wouldn't be surprising because the first public news about the original Nintendo Switch appeared in March 2015, but it officially hit the shelves in March 2017. That is, there was a two-year gap between the first announcement and the launch. Hopefully, we won't see something similar happen with the Switch 2.

Getting back to Chris's report, he didn't share what may have caused the delay. However, it's likely that Nintendo wants a good number of AAA games to be ready for the Switch 2. This would be a good thing because the first handheld had a very limited number of titles available at launch.

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