Release Date for Nintendo Switch Successor Delayed - New Leaks
The Nintendo Switch may have to wait a little longer for a successor than recent leaks suggested. The launch is also expected to lack the upgrade known from the more expensive variant of Nintendo's current console.
After years of rare and uncertain rumors, Nintendo's new console seems to be really close - although not as close as suggested by recent leaks. According to information from Video Games Chronicle Switch's successor is expected to be released in the second half of 2024, and not in the first quarter, as recent rumors suggested.
According to numerous VGC insiders, such timing stems from fears of a repeat of the situation with console shortage at launch, as was the case with the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. The debut of the "Switch 2" after the first half of next year would ensure that the device would be widely available from the beginning.
- In addition, the website's sources revealed that the new console is also expected to allow for portable play and use cartridges (and thus will not be limited to digital versions of games only, like the Xbox Series S). Both pieces of information are unlikely to surprise anyone - after all, the Switch's hybrid nature is one of the main reasons why it has been such a huge success.
- A bigger (and somewhat unpleasant) surprise might be equipping the Switch's successor with an LCD screen instead of OLED, ostensibly to reduce production costs (which, according to VGC, will increase as a result of, among other things, the larger size of games with more detailed graphics, forcing a significant increase in disk size). Buyers of the more expensive version of Nintendo's console may have seen the advantages of the latter. If OLED is indeed not used in the company's new device, it could be quite a disappointment for some gamers.
Of course, this is only unofficial information and should not be taken as confirmed reports. Nevertheless, it should be recalled that devkits of the new console are allegedly already available to game developers. This would explain the increasing rumors of an undisclosed Nintendo device in recent weeks.
Let's also recall that the mention of the debut of the "Switch 2" (as the platform is called for now) in 2024 has appeared also in court documents regarding the Federal Trade Commission's dispute with Microsoft. So these and other rumors may turn out to be true. Especially since sales of the first Switch has slowed somewhat, and Nintendo's rivals have long since released new devices.
