Nintendo Reiterates Plans for Switch 2 Announcement Window

November 5, 2024

Key Takeaways

Nintendo has reaffirmed the plan to reveal the Switch 2 within its current fiscal year.
The company has less than five more months to make good on that promise, as its ongoing fiscal period runs until the end of March 2025.
More Switch 2 info might arrive soon, once Nintendo publishes the transcript of its November 5 investor Q&A session, where shareholders are likely to ask about the much-anticipated console.

Nintendo has reiterated its plans for the Switch 2 announcement window, stating that the console will be revealed during its ongoing fiscal year. But the company is still keeping other details about the Switch successor close to the vest.

According to mid-February reports, the Switch 2 was initially planned to hit the market in 2024 but ended up being pushed back to 2025. The exact reasons for this purported delay are unclear, although some industry watchers speculated that Nintendo wanted more time to work on the upcoming console’s launch library.

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On November 5, the Japanese gaming giant published its latest consolidated financial report for the six-month period ending September 30. During a subsequent earnings call, Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa said that the company still plans to announce its next console during the current fiscal year, which runs until the end of March 2025. In doing so, the official reiterated his statement from May 2024, when he originally revealed the Switch 2 announcement window. Furukawa did not elaborate on the matter any further on either occasion.

Nintendo Has Less Than 5 Months To Announce the Switch 2

Nintendo now has less than five months to meet the Switch 2 reveal window that it has previously committed to. Or four months and 26 days, to be exact. According to a late February 2024 report from Nikkei, Nintendo wants to do everything it can to avoid Switch 2 launch shortages, like the ones that inhibited the release of its 2017 console. Given the company’s current production capabilities, this claim suggests that the upcoming device might spend over six months in mass production before release. Therefore, if the Switch 2 isn’t announced in 2024, its chances of hitting the market before Q3 2025 would likely be slim.

More Official Switch 2 Info Might Arrive Soon

Nintendo is scheduled to publish a transcript of its latest Q&A with investors in the next 24 hours, no later than November 6. This release might include some additional information about its next console because shareholders are all but certain to ask about it. This is how fans learned that the Switch 2 might look similar to its predecessor back in May 2024, when Furukawa was questioned about the console during Nintendo’s previous investor Q&A session.

The company’s latest financial report saw it reduce its annual profit forecast by 10%, citing low console sales. Nintendo sold 4.7 million Switch units during the first half of its current fiscal year, which is a 30% decline compared to the same period last year.