The Nintendo Switch 2 release date may have just been leaked by a retailer and its listing for the new Nintendo console.

Nintendo hasn’t said when the Switch 2 release date is, beyond a vague 2025 window. However, Nacon has said it expects the console to arrive in the first half of its 2025/2026 fiscal year.

The Nintendo Switch 2 has officially been revealed, as the successor to the hugely successful handheld and home console hybrid has finally been unveiled. The brief announcement video highlighted the console’s new design,

According to Nintendo’s website, the company advised consumers to tune in on April 2, 2025, for the Nintendo Direct: Nintendo Switch 2. Moreover, the company announced that it will be hosting a Nintendo Switch 2 Experience in select cities around the world. The following are the locations and dates for the event:

The Nintendo Switch 2 could bring back a Wii feature and upgrade it, if a new Nintendo patent is any indicator.

The Switch 2 might not be a radical reinvention of what came before, but Nintendo’s new hardware does sport some unique quirks, distinguishing it from the original handheld hybrid that arrived back in 2017.

Nintendo has dropped a first-look trailer for the Switch 2, and some gamers are wondering if its design is too similar to the original.

Details of what the Nintendo Switch 2 can actually do are somewhat scare at the moment, but there's one thing it could do to surpass the first Switch.

Even though the Nintendo Switch 2 was just announced, several games have already declared that they will be releasing on the system.