Nintendo is making it official: The Nintendo Switch 2 gaming console will arrive in 2025. The Japanese video game giant announced the new Switch Thursday morning, alongside the first official images of the device.

You can always count on Nintendo for a surprise. This is the company that followed the Game Boy with a strange dual-screened handheld and broke out of its GameCube slump with a console focused on motion controls.

The Switch 2 is unlikely to be priced any lower than $349, the current cost of an OLED Switch model. $399 seems like a safe bet — the same price as the base Steam Deck. Any more than this and Nintendo will face uncomfortable comparisons to the new wave of PC handhelds.

Despite approaching eight years since it launched, analysis of Nintendo’s financial data and weekly Famitsu sales shows that Switch sold just over 3 million units in Japan last year. That compares to over 4 million in 2023, and nearly 5 million in 2022.

The video reveal was just the beginning, as Nintendo's Switch 2 is primed to dominate the gaming world all year long.

It’s been months of waiting for official Switch 2 news. Nintendo confirmed the existence of the device last year, and it’s been a drip feed of news from leakers ever since. Now that the Switch 2 officially exists and we can put a face and name to the concept of the Switch successor,

Nintendo is betting on the 2025 release of a bigger, better version of its blockbuster Switch console to keep up the success of the third best-selling games machine of all time.

The original Switch came out in 2017, and — though graphics prowess has never been a huge part of the Nintendo ethos — if Nintendo is to expand the variety and scope of the games people can play on its console, it needs to keep up with current technology.

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A Bold Next Step in Gaming Yesterday, Nintendo officially unveiled its highly anticipated console, the Nintendo Switch 2. While leaks had given fans a glimpse into what […]

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