We’ve also heard about another very positive, but logical feature for the Nintendo Switch 2 (we’ll call it that until the big N christens it…).

The other day, Gamesindustry editor Christopher Dring said that he was also preparing for Nintendo Switch 2 news in September, as the Japanese company is supposed to confirm it in some form later this month. To this we can now add what David Gibson wrote on Twitter. According to him, Hosiden, Nintendo’s assembly company, plans to spend 2 billion yen on manufacturing equipment and another 1 billion yen on automation in the third quarter of the current fiscal year. The third quarter starts in October, and what else would require such an investment if not new hardware?

No-one seems to have noticed the Nintendo assembler- Hosiden is spending ¥2bn on production equipment and ¥1bn on automation in FY3/25 for its major customer in amusement (Nintendo). I still expect Sept news and March 2025 release for next device. pic.twitter.com/APGEGGSyS8

— David Gibson (@gibbogame) September 4, 2024

According to Gibson, the Nintendo Switch 2 could be unveiled either between September 18 and 26 or in early October, so he would rule out the Tokyo Game Show (we think Sony may be planning the same thing here: the console will be unveiled BEFORE the Tokyo Game Show). Gibson still expects the big N to announce news of the platform in September, which would then be released in March rather than the next fiscal year (so April 2025 at the earliest), so the new platform could hit stores in the current one (like the Switch will in March 2017).

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And on Reddit, another insider, NateTheHate, said that the Nintendo Switch 2 will have retroactive game support. So, like PlayStation 4 > PlayStation 5 and Xbox One > Xbox Series, it will be a seamless transition from one of the best-selling consoles in the world to its successor. It will be necessary because it would be a shame to leave all those Switch games behind.

Neither the Nintendo Switch 2 nor the PlayStation 5 Pro have been announced yet, but the question for both platforms is how much they will cost to buy.

Source: WCCFTech