It looks like the Nintendo Switch 2 won’t be revealed in 2024 after all. Throughout this year, Nintendo fans have been waiting for the Japanese game publisher to unveil its next console. While an announcement of the Switch 2, as it has been dubbed, was expected at some point this fall, Nintendo itself has remained strangely silent. An analyst said that this continued silence suggests that a first presentation of the Nintendo Switch 2 will not take place until next year.

In a report from ReutersHideki Yasuda, an analyst at Tokyo Securities, shared his own view on when Nintendo might reveal the Switch 2. Yasuda said that with the start of the holiday shopping season, Nintendo would likely find itself in a position where she would not want to hinder sales at the moment. Switch models. If it were to reveal the Switch 2 now, it would likely make a lot of people not want to buy a current Switch, which would hurt Nintendo’s sales potential to close out 2024. As such, Nintendo is likely reserving the reveal of the Switch 2 for next time. year when this busy holiday season will be in the rearview mirror.

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“Making an announcement this year has become quite difficult,” Yasuda said. “You wouldn’t want to divert attention to an upcoming console in the middle of the critical holiday shopping season.”

While this surely isn’t what Nintendo fans want to hear, Yasuda is probably correct in his assumption. When the original Switch was announced, it was first shown off in October 2016, leading to its release the following spring. With the Switch 2 yet to be revealed, there’s a good chance it won’t release until mid-2025 at the earliest.

As for Nintendo, company president Shuntaro Furukawa said plans haven’t changed when it comes to the Switch 2 reveal. A real hardware reveal will happen at some point during the Nintendo’s current fiscal year, which ends March 31. , 2025. Even though that March window is coming quickly, it’s still not soon enough for many Nintendo fans.