Summary
After months of speculation, leaks, and surprising silence,Nintendohas finally revealed the Switch 2, giving us our first official look at the updated joy-cons and screen, along with what appears to be footage of a brand-new Mario Kart running on the system.
We’ll find out more on April 2 during a special Direct.
The trailer also confirmed that the Switch 2 is backwards compatible.
Considering how unbelievably popular theNintendo Switch has been ever since its first model was released back in 2017, it’s no surprise that the whole world has been waiting with bated breath for Nintendo tofinallyannounce the Switch 2. Thankfully, the wait is over, with the new teaser even confirming several rumours, such as the magnetic joy-cons.
There has been an unendingwave of leaks that unveiled nearly everything about the consolethese last few months, and even the design was shown off early at CES thanks to a mockup made by Genki. Nintendo has mostlyremained silent throughout the whole thing, but the new reveal finally puts to bed all the speculation, even giving us a date to look forward to.
Nintendo Switch 2 Is Launching Sometime This Year
But first, a Nintendo Direct
At the time of writing, we don’t know much about what Nintendo is going to show during the presentation in April, but if it’s anything like the reveal of the original Switch, we can expect a good look at the console itself and some teases about the successor’s lineup of games.
Already, it looks like we have a new Mario Kart to look forward to (as evident by the new track and character designs, most notably Yoshi and Donkey Kong, as well as there being 15 characters on screen at once), while there are alsomurmurs of next-gen Pokemon games like Gen 10 and Legends Z-A. Perhaps we’ll find out more about these soon.
Nintendo’s reveal of the Switch 2 couldn’t come sooner as, despite its best attempts to keep things quiet,console accessory manufacturers and leakers have been giving away the whole farm.
Since the start of 2025 alone we’ve learnedabout the successor’s name,its advanced Joy-Cons, and even seen several mock-ups of what the console is going to look like. All of which turned out to be incredibly accurate to the real thing.
