More proof has emerged that the Nintendo Switch 2 might launch a lot before anticipated. It was lately steered that the Nintendo Switch 2 might launch as early as April 2024. This was based mostly on a report by Chinese web site MoneyDJ, which claimed that an organization known as Hongzhun is manufacturing metallic circumstances for a Nintendo Switch successor launching after April 2024. The reviews have sinced been backed up by Microsoft courtroom paperwork, which speculate that the Nintendo Switch 2 could have a 2024 launch date.

"Microsoft tracks Xbox’s performance against PlayStation not because those two consoles provide a complete competitive landscape, but rather because they were released at the same time," reads a Microsoft doc submitted to the courts.

"Switch was released three years earlier, and Nintendo is expected to release the successor to the Switch as early as next year, whereas PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X|S are at a different stage of the console life cycle."

With the Nintendo Switch closing in on its seven-year anniversary, the assumption is {that a} new Nintendo console launch date is imminent.

Nintendo beforehand dominated out a fiscal 23/24 launch for the Nintendo Switch successor, which signifies that the Switch 2 will launch within the first quarter of the following monetary yr - so any time after April 2024.

The rumours of a Nintendo Switch comply with up have been gaining floor in current months, as increasingly more leaks come to gentle.

Sharp is rumoured to be manufacturing screens for the brand new system, whereas one European developer reportedly has a dev-kit.

It will definitely make the following few Nintendo Direct conferences price watching, as we shut in on an official reveal.

In phrases of Nintendo Switch 2 video games, the dearth of footage means that Metroid Prime 4 might be one of many large Nintendo Switch 2 video games at launch. A brand new 3D Mario recreation would additionally make sense for the Nintendo Switch 2.

In the meantime, Nintendo is on the brink of launch its closing batch of Switch video games, together with Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Super Mario RPG and Pikmin 4.

Pikmin 4 will make its Nintendo Switch debut on July 21, full with new gameplay options corresponding to a canine companion for transporting Pikmin and smashing obstacles.