Nintendo Switch 2 currently targeting March 2025 but could slip further - report

Nintendo is currently set to launch its under-wraps Switch 2 console in March 2025 — but this could be delayed further, a new report has cautioned.

The fresh report, this time from Japanese newspaper Nikkei, has further confirmed this month's reports that Switch 2 will now arrive next year, after having previously been set for a late 2024 launch.

Eurogamer sources told us previously that a delay to 2025 was intended to ensure Switch 2 arrived with a robust game line-up, something Nikkei's report also mentions. Nikkei additionally suggests a move to 2025 will ensure Switch 2 console stock will also be more readily available.

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The Switch 2's current planned March 2025 launch window means Nintendo will miss the lucrative end of year sales season, but still be able to include Switch 2 launch sales in its upcoming financial year, which ends 31st March 2025.

But Nikkei suggested that Nintendo was still open to a further delay of Switch 2 until later in 2025, if judged necessary.

Previous reports have pegged Switch 2 as another hybrid console, this time with a larger screen — something Nikkei also now confirms. One report previous stated Switch 2 would feature an eight-inch LCD screen, rather than OLED.

A video games industry report published last month found that hundreds of developers were now working on projects set to launch on Switch 2.