If you happen to have been hoping to get your palms on Nintendo’s extremely anticipated Swap 2 console this 12 months then put together to be disenchanted by one other rumor pointing to a 2025 launch date. In accordance with a brand new report from Nikkei, Nintendo is anticipated to launch its successor to the Nintendo Swap console “as early as March,” according to the rumored Q1 2025 launch date reported by each VGC and Eurogamer earlier this month.
Earlier reporting had set an anticipated 2024 launch date for Nintendo’s next-gen console, already with the intention of getting ample inventory out there to keep away from the shortages that the PS5 and Xbox Sequence S / X skilled at launch. However those self same inventory considerations in addition to giving builders sufficient time to create new recreation titles seem like behind this newest 2025 launch window. Machine translation of Nikkei’s Japanese-language report says that Nintendo “prioritized securing initial stock of successor machines and the lineup of popular software at the time of release.”
The corporate can be engaged on “measures to prevent resale,” presumably to try to forestall scalpers from inflicting additional distress. In any other case, there aren’t many particulars out there in regards to the Swap successor itself, which is predicted to have an identical handheld mode to the unique Swap console, albeit with a bigger show.