Nintendo confirms physical media support and other details for Switch 2

Only on Tuesday did Nintendo officially confirm that the successor to the Nintendo Switch would be announced in the current financial year, i.e., by the end of March 2025 at the latest. As part of the announcement of the financial results for the financial year ending in March 2024, Shuntaro Furukawa answered some questions about the next-generation console from the company's investors, which were translated by GamesIndustry.biz.

According to the report, Nintendo has not yet decided when the console will be launched, so while the announcement is expected by March 2025, it could be even longer before it goes on sale. When asked whether the console would be available in sufficiently large quantities at launch, Nintendo's president replied that there are currently no foreseeable bottlenecks in chip production, so the gaming giant is expecting sufficiently large production volume. This is not surprising given that the ARM chip of the Nintendo Switch 2 is reportedly being manufactured via the long-established 8 nm process. 

Also interesting is the fact that Nintendo has officially confirmed for the first time that its next-generation Nintendo Switch will continue to support physical games instead of digital games alone, although the company expects the proportion of digital sales to continue to rise. Players will also be able to use their existing Nintendo account with the new console. Nintendo has not yet confirmed any information about the console's hardware, but we have summarized the most important specs from past rumors in this article and compared them to the Nintendo Switch OLED.