With that in thoughts, there are a number of nuggets that is likely to be sure. The following console is prone to stay a hybrid house and moveable console—reporting from VGC signifies that is the case, and it’s a pure development given Nintendo’s current trajectory. After the corporate has bought greater than 132 million moveable consoles, it’s unlikely to revert to a system that may’t go away your TV’s aspect.
Different studies counsel the subsequent console may need a barely bigger display screen, use an LCD panel (versus OLED, discovered on the newer Swap refresh), and presumably have extra highly effective processors. However specs are specs. They’ll let you know solely a lot about how a console works or feels in particular person.
We don’t know whether or not the brand new console will probably be backward suitable with outdated video games. Nintendo has solely sometimes supported the earlier technology of video games on its newer consoles. Till we all know for certain, it’s arduous to say whether or not it’s price ready for the brand new console. If it could possibly’t play many of the video games out there on the Swap, then it’s not a query of whether or not to attend, however which video games you need to play. Because the Swap already takes the cake for the longest hole between prior Nintendo consoles, it is a protected wager that developer kits are already in builders’ palms to arrange video games for the brand new console.
2025 May Be the Yr
It is unlikely the subsequent Nintendo console will arrive in 2024. A number of retailers, together with VGC, Eurogamer, and Bloomberg, have reported that Nintendo has delayed the Swap’s successor to the primary quarter of 2025. Extra reporting by Japanese outlet Nikkei (by way of VGC) additional corroborated this info, citing that the delay is meant to shore up provide to cut back scalping and gadget shortages.
We’d nonetheless discover out extra in regards to the Swap’s successor within the coming months. Earlier studies instructed that Nintendo was initially aiming for a vacation 2024 launch. The unique Swap was introduced in October 2016 and launched in March 2017, about 5 months aside. If Nintendo plans to launch its subsequent console within the first quarter of 2025, we could get an official announcement this fall.
Nintendo tends to make use of much less highly effective, extra outdated {hardware} in comparison with Xbox and PlayStation consoles—although it pulls off some unbelievable feats with it—so it is pure to be longing for the subsequent mannequin when the present one is wanting so lengthy within the tooth. Nonetheless, the Swap will probably be Nintendo’s main console at the very least for one more yr. And even after that, it is nonetheless a fantastic console that may be capable to play some actually wonderful video games for a very long time.
