Switch successor to be revealed during Fiscal Year 2024

Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa has revealed via a tweet that a successor to the Nintendo Switch will be revealed during the current fiscal year.

For those not used to this (admittedly confusing) system, Fiscal Year 2024 ends on April 5, 2025. This means that a Switch 2 — or whatever this new console ends up being called — reveal could still be a while away.

This is Furukawa, President of Nintendo. We will make an announcement about the successor to Nintendo Switch within this fiscal year. It will have been over nine years since we announced the existence of Nintendo Switch back in March 2015. We will be holding a Nintendo Direct…
— 任天堂株式会社（企業広報・IR） (@NintendoCoLtd) May 7, 2024

The tweet also confirmed that a new Nintendo Direct is planned for June 2024. While it wont contain any hardware info, the Direct will showcase games that are releasing during the second half of 2024.

This leaves nearly a year window for the announcement, and the actual release of the Switch successor wont happen until at least a few months after its reveal too.

At over nine years since the initial reveal of the Nintendo Switch and seven since its release, the console has certainly lived a long life. Assuming many of the initial Switch 2 offerings are cross compatible, it’ll likely keep going for even longer too.

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