It sounds like we won’t be waiting that much longer to hear news about the Switch 2.
Famiboards forum user Guaraná shared this information in a post from yesterday:
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According to our own @Brazil the journalist who broke the news about the 2025 Switch 2 release, Nintendo seems to have brought forward some plans regarding the Switch 2’s release schedule. Some presentations (he doesn’t specify which ones) that were scheduled for the end of September seem to have been brought forward to the next couple of weeks.
He also says that the current podcast (link below) should be one of the last before news about the Switch 2 really starts to pop up.
He also adds (and this seems to be just his personal opinion) that the Switch 2’s release schedule will follow more or less the same route as what we saw with the Switch 1.”
If you can understand Portuguese, you can watch the podcast here. But just to refresh your memory, Famiboards user Brazil actually outed himself as Brazilian video games journalist Pedro Henrique Lutti Lippe a few months ago. As Guaraná says, Brazil made some claims about the Switch 2’s schedule, but we should take some time to review his rumors.
You see, Brazil correctly predicted that Nintendo would reveal Metroid Prime 4: Beyond in June. For fans who were paying attention to our popular video game leakers (a few of whom were outed and have gone quiet), Brazil has managed to keep his credibility. Perhaps it helps that he didn’t really hide his identity, and it’s just that he talks primarily to his fellow Brazilians than going for an international audience. Brazil also correctly predicted that Nintendo would be announcing a lot of remakes, but he didn’t give any names.
After Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa came onto Twitter to announce they would reveal the Switch 2 in this fiscal year, Brazil shared his rumor. Brazil said that the Switch 2 announcement was scheduled for this Fall, which means it would happen sometime between September to November 2024. That first rumor was last May. This new rumor that Brazil shared in a video podcast suggests that Nintendo has decided to speed up their announcement schedule, and that’s certainly believable.
Nintendo announced that their profits plunged a surprising 55 % in the last financial quarter, and this was off of declining sales of the Switch. While that won’t stop the Switch from becoming the best-selling console in the US, it does mean Nintendo can no longer afford to keep delaying their announcement and release of the Switch 2.
Does this mean the Switch 2 will also be launching earlier? Probably not, since that would be a potential logistical nightmare. But we could finally find out what this console, which Nintendo’s partners were allowed to touch but not see, is really about. Maybe it’s a cheaper mixed reality headset, or even better, the return of two screens. But we can only wildly speculate for so long.
