Rumour: Nintendo Is Targeting A 2024 Release For The Switch Successor

Regardless of the continuing success of the Nintendo Swap, discuss of an inevitable successor seems to be gaining traction with every passing day. Now, based on a latest report, it seems to be like Nintendo could also be concentrating on a 2024 launch for its subsequent main piece of {hardware}.

Because of VGC (and corroborated by Eurogamer), it seems to be like growth kits for Nintendo’s subsequent console at the moment are with “key accomplice studios”, with a number of sources claiming that Nintendo is aiming to launch the ultimate product within the second half of 2024. That is supposedly to keep away from any inventory shortages that plagued the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Collection X/S once they each launched again in 2021.

As for particular particulars relating to the console itself, these are understandably brief in the intervening time, however VGC states that it’s going to utilise an LCD display slightly than an OLED display in an effort to preserve prices down. It additionally states that the console will settle for cartridges as a type of bodily media and might be playable in a conveyable mode (which, given the inclusion of its personal display, is smart).

As for backwards compatibility, we’ll probably want to attend for extra data on this later down the road. As reiterated by VGC, Nintendo has beforehand acknowledged that it desires to transform as lots of the Swap’s set up base over to the brand new console, and backward compatibility will definitely assist such ambitions.