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Farsala on 16 January 2025

According to a report, Nintendo wants to produce 20m in their first FY. So the earlier the better.

May 2025.

I originally predicted Holiday 2025, and I hope they choose earlier than that.



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JackHandy on 16 January 2025
Soundwave said:

May perhaps. Doesn't really seem like you need months and months of build up for this, this system is about as straight forward as it gets. It's a Switch 2.

Which is why it's so underwhelming to me. It's basically the same thing with more power; a Switch Pro.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think I liked blue-ocean Nintendo better.



Mar1217 on 16 January 2025
JWeinCom said:

I would love if it came out before May. But the hands on events run till June, and I wouldn't expect it to launch before those end. Unless it's a staggered launch.

The hands on events are happening first in early April for NA/EU and a bit later in Japan/Asia. Maybe they are launching first in US/EU since they figure they already have Japan on lock.

Nah, it could happen nonetheless. The OG Switch had hands on events well after weeks it got released. 

May-June is definitely the more likelier timeframe overall. Especially since they haven't budged from the 3 months in between hardware reveal and the actual following full presentation.



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dharh on 02 April 2025
dharh said:

My math may be wrong on exact months to each NA launch, but here is the past:

NES: October 18, 1985
SNES: August 23, 1991 - 70 months
N64: September 29, 1996 - 61 months
Gamecube: September 14, 2001 - 60 months
Wii: November 19, 2006 - 61 months
Wii U: November 18, 2012 - 72 months
Switch: March 3, 2017 - 52 months

Even if Switch 2 had launched back in January 1 it would have been one of the longest Nintendo gens at like 93 (nearly 94) months.
This is unprecedented and thus past gen lengths just do not apply. My expectation is November, so 104 months.

Why am I comparing console gens and not the handheld gens? This is Nintendo's flagship, gens should be closer to the flagship consoles than the handhelds. Even if Covid had not occurred and given us the current results, I suspect it would still have been one of the longest Nintendo gens, say November 2023 at 79 months.

Based on the Nintendo Direct today, Switch 2 launches in June. 98 months from the release of the OG Switch. This marks a relatively new precedent for Nintendo's flagship release. In both length from previous flagship and timing of the year. I wonder what this will means for Switch 1's final sales number. The $450 price tag and the release timing gives both a positive and negative towards Switch 1 getting to 160m sold.



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Norion on 02 April 2025

The usual expectation was thankfully right. June is an interesting launch month and I imagine they would've done it in Spring or November if they were able to. It's gonna make launch aligned comparisons not ideal but that's whatever.