Nintendo Switch 2: all the leaks and rumors so far

Nintendo’s announcement of the Switch’s successor is imminent. How imminent is anyone to assume that the company will declare that it would reveals information on the console before the end of their fiscal year in March. Rumors regarding the new Switch have been circulating for more than a yearBut with less than two months to go until the promised term, and in the absence of any real information from Nintendo itself, speculations about the console, its specs, the physical profile, and more have reached a fever pitch. So before the official reveal, here’s everything we think we know about Nintendo’s next console.

The only piece of information confirmed by Nintendo that we know about the new console is this it will be backwards compatible with the Switch. Everything else has come through leaks and information provided by third-party manufacturers. At the end of last year, one such manufacturer, Dbrand, has debuted its Killswitch carrying case aimed at the Switch 2. According to Dbrand CEO Adam Ijaz, the Killswitch is based on the “actual dimensions” of the new console obtained from a “3D scan of the actual hardware.” But in an interview with The Virgindeclined to say exactly how or where Dbrand obtained such information.

If the design of Killswitch is really derived from the real thing, the new console will be bigger than the OLED Switch with an 8-inch screen, and it will feature a kickstand that will run the length of the console similar to the OLED model. That the new Switch will be bigger than previous iterations is supported by escapes and information from other accessory manufacturers like the idea that the The Joy-Con controllers attach via magnets instead of sliding and snapping in place. The new controller design will also incorporate magnets into the joysticks to combat the dreaded “Joy-Con Drift” that plagues the Switch even now.

CES 2025 provided even more fodder for the buzz, with accessory maker Genki shows a 3D printed mock-up of the console to the exhibition floor. In an interview with The VirginGenki CEO Eddie Tsai went into detail about what he knows about the new Switch which reaffirms the rumors regarding its larger size, magnetic Joy-Con, and more.

While there is a lot of speculation and potential evidence about what the new console will be like, there is less circulating about what it can actually do. Beyond that an alleged picture of the console’s motherboardthere hasn’t been much about the hardware specifications of the console. Why Nintendo never made consoles to the point of blood (or, honestly, even the cut) of graphics or processing power, it is difficult to guess how much the console will perform or what additional functions, such as a microphone, it will have.

Although the console’s internals remain a mystery, we do know that it will be backwards compatible with Switch games. We can also reasonably guess at least one game that will be a launch title: Metroid Prime 4. Announced in 2017, and immediately a change of studio and a reboot of development two years later, Nintendo has debuted gameplay footage for the first time last year and shared a soft launch window of 2025. When Twilight Princess launched in 2006, it debuted on the GameCube and served as a launch title for the Wii. Breath of the Wild it was also cross-gen, debuting on the Wii U while launching with the Switch in 2017.

Knowing that the new Switch is Metroid Prime 4 both launch in 2025 and con Twilight Princess and OTW as examples, it is speculated that the reason for Metroid 4The long stint in development hell was, at least in part, because the game has been equipped for both the Switch and its successor. Also, you can’t have a new Nintendo console without a Mario game Super Mario Odyssey it was a Switch launch titleand although there have been other new releases such as Super Mario Wonderthere was no new standalone (put down the forks Bowser’s Fury fans) 3D Mario game since then. It is all but guaranteed that one will be announced with the new Switch. Recently announced Pokemon Legends: ZA it’s also a good candidate for the launch title since Nintendo curiously worded the game’s debut trailer with “simultaneous worldwide release on Nintendo Switch in 2025.”

For all the rumors and reasonable assumptions supported by increasingly convincing evidence, it is useful to remember that at the end of the day, we are still talking about Nintendo. The company has always weighed in a separate and unpredictable path from the other two big console makers and that weird strategy worked mostly very well. Although the company is not immune to the same dismissals and delays (The Switch 2 was originally pegged for a 2024 version) afflicts its peers and truly holds its own variety problems with how it treats and pays its employees and contractorsof the major publishers, he seems to be the one best navigating the current crisis that is devastating the industry.

It’s crazy trying to predict what Nintendo will do, and that applies to their new console. All we can count on is that it’s coming soon, and when it does, it’s going to be big.