After much umming and ahhing from industry leakers throughout 2024, it looks like the Switch 2 is finally gearing up for its first ‘proper’ announcement (if you don’t count this one) soon, possibly targeting a March 2025 release date. That’s been the general idea ever since it was reported that Nintendo would miss its originally intended on-shelf date of the back half of 2024.
Gimme. Now. Please?
No-one seems to have noticed the Nintendo assembler- Hosiden is spending ¥2bn on production equipment and ¥1bn on automation in FY3/25 for its major customer in amusement (Nintendo). I still expect Sept news and March 2025 release for next device. pic.twitter.com/APGEGGSyS8
— David Gibson (@gibbogame) September 4, 2024
That’s following the train of thought proposed by David Gibson of MST Financial on X, who reckons that Nintendo’s assembler spending ¥2 billion on “production equipment” and a further ¥1 billion on automation “for its major customer in amusement (Nintendo)” is more than a little suspicious. It hints at the fact that the Switch 2 has entered mass production.
Gibson was replying to his initial tweet where he claimed “it might be Sept 18-26 or in early Oct (avoid Tokyo Game Show)” when Nintendo might make the announcement. He then does that annoying thing by not providing any proof, so we’re going to go ahead and leave that one in the dust. If it does happen, bully for us.
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We believe that Nintendo wouldn’t sully the release of the impending The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, which will be released on 26 September with such a big announcement to detract from the game’s success. Judging by the Switch 1’s life cycle, we could see an early October announcement working out, and mimicking its older sibling with a March 2025 release.
In other news, reliable leaker Nate the Hate responded to Gibson’s “mass production” claims with a simple “It has backwards compatibility” comment on Reddit, though refusing to elaborate further. That, too, has been touted for months, as has the news that Nintendo will stick with the same general handheld-in-dock look that made the first Switch one of the most popular consoles of all time.