With that in thoughts, there are a couple of nuggets that is perhaps sure. The subsequent console is more likely to stay a hybrid house and moveable console—reporting from VGC signifies that is the case, and it’s a pure development given Nintendo’s current trajectory. After the corporate has bought greater than 132 million moveable consoles, it’s unlikely to revert to a system that may’t go away your TV’s aspect.

Other studies recommend the subsequent console might need a barely bigger display, use an LCD panel (versus OLED, found on the more recent Switch refresh), and presumably have extra highly effective processors. But specs are specs. They can let you know solely a lot about how a console works or feels in individual.

We don’t know whether or not the brand new console will likely be backward suitable with previous video games. Nintendo has solely often supported the earlier era of video games on its newer consoles. Until we all know for certain, it’s laborious to say whether or not it’s price ready for the brand new console. If it will possibly’t play many of the video games out there on the Switch, then it’s not a query of whether or not to attend, however which video games you wish to play. Since the Switch already takes the cake for the longest hole between prior Nintendo consoles, it is a secure wager that developer kits are already in developers’ hands to arrange video games for the brand new console.

2025 Might Be the Year

It’s unlikely the subsequent Nintendo console will arrive in 2024. Multiple shops, including VGC, Eurogamer, and Bloomberg, have reported that Nintendo has delayed the Switch’s successor to the primary quarter of 2025. Additional reporting by Japanese outlet Nikkei (via VGC) additional corroborated this info, citing that the delay is meant to shore up provide to scale back scalping and system shortages.

We may nonetheless discover out extra in regards to the Switch’s successor within the coming months. Previous reports suggested that Nintendo was initially aiming for a vacation 2024 launch. The unique Switch was introduced in October 2016 and launched in March 2017, about 5 months aside. If Nintendo plans to launch its subsequent console within the first quarter of 2025, we could get an official announcement this fall.

Nintendo tends to make use of much less highly effective, extra outdated {hardware} in comparison with Xbox and PlayStation consoles—although it pulls off some unbelievable feats with it—so it is pure to be longing for the subsequent mannequin when the present one is wanting so lengthy within the tooth. Nevertheless, the Switch will likely be Nintendo’s major console at the very least for one more 12 months. And even after that, it is nonetheless an ideal console that may be capable of play some truly excellent games for a very long time.