Nintendo Switch 2 to be released in 2025

16 January 2025, 19:24

Nintendo Switch 2
16×9-NintendoSwitch2. Picture: PA

Nintendo has confirmed its much anticipated new console will be released this year.

The Nintendo Switch 2, the successor to the Japanese gaming giant’s popular Switch console, will be released this year.

The firm published a trailer on its website confirming the release of the console, but has not yet revealed a price or launch date.

The original Nintendo Switch has proven hugely popular with gaming fans since it was released in 2017, with its hybrid home and mobile gaming system which allows players to carry the screen and detachable remote controls with them, as well as dock the device in a station at home to use it with a TV.

The trailer for the new console shows a similar design but a larger screen and bigger detachable Joy-Con controllers.

Nintendo confirmed the Switch 2 will support backwards compatibility, meaning players will be able to run original Switch console games, as well as those made for the Switch 2, on the new system.

However, the company added that some Switch games “may not be supported or fully compatible with Nintendo Switch 2” and it will provide more details later.

More information about the console will be announced during a livestream event on Wednesday April 2, Nintendo said, and the gaming firm is to run hands-on events with the product in cities around the world in the same month.

These will include an event at London Excel between April 11 and 13.

By Press Association

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