As the Nintendo Switch seemingly reaches the end of its life cycle, the video game world is eagerly awaiting the Switch successor. Following the delay, Nintendo targeted March 2025 for launch with an official announcement coming later this fiscal year. Now, it seems like the Nintendo Switch will launch later in 2025 as developers have reportedly been told not to expect the next Nintendo console before April 2025.

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“No developer I’ve spoken to expects it to be launching this financial year, Chris Dring, Head of Gamesindustry.biz said during Gamesindustry’s latest podcast. “In fact, they’ve been told not to expect it in the [current] financial year. A bunch of people I spoke to hope it’s out in April or May time, still early next year, not late.

“I don’t think any of us wants a late launch for Switch 2 because we all want a new Nintendo console, everyone gets very excited for it, and we don’t want that crunch of Grand Theft Auto VI and Switch and all that kind of stuff on top of each other.”

Eurogamer also corroborated this report. They say that April 2025 is the very earliest the console could launch.

Reports suggest that Nintendo is planning the same kind of launch rollout that Switch 1 had. Nintendo Switch was announced in October 2016 with a trailer that named the console and revealed its hybrid functionality. Nintendo confirmed the console’s March 2017 launch date at the start of that year.

Other reports and rumors about the next Nintendo Switch console say that it will also be a hybrid device albeit with a larger screen. In January, there was a report suggesting that hundreds of developers are working on games for the next Nintendo console.