The long wait is finally over. In a YouTube video with little fanfare, Nintendo officially introduced the long-awaited Switch 2. The first true next-gen follow-up to the original Switch includes backwards-compatibility for owners of existing Switch hardware and we'll learn more about the console in a Nintendo Direct presentation on April 2,

The console looks a lot like the original, but in the video, the Joy-Con controllers are black with colored accents. There’s also a new button under the home button on the right Joy-Con, which had shown up in leaks. The video also appears to show the Joy-Cons being used similarly to a mouse.

We're due for a new Nintendo Switch. The current model has performed valiantly for the last seven years but it's much showing its age in terms of processing power. Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa announced that the game system's long-awaited successor will be revealed before the end of March 2025,

Nintendo quietly dropped a new update for Switch, Switch Lite, and Switch OLED consoles this week with one small change.

For nearly eight years, the Nintendo Switch has found a huge foothold in the gaming world, coming dangerously close to having sold 150 million lifetime units at the time of writing. But eight years is a long time for a video game console to be on the market. Naturally, there will be a new one, and we think we'll find out about it soon.

Nintendo has finally announced its successor to the Nintendo Switch, the Nintendo Switch 2. In a video uploaded to YouTube, Nintendo showed off the functionality of the next-gen console in vague terms, with a tease of more information to come.

Japanese video game company Nintendo will launch the Switch 2 console, successor to its hit Switch device, this year, it said on Thursday. (Reporting by Sam Nussey; Editing by David Goodman) Copyright 2025 Thomson Reuters.

Nintendo has finally revealed the Switch 2 console in a trailer showing off the handheld. Of course, many fans already knew details about the console due to leaks leading up to the reveal, but it's nice to see the console's final design from the source.

The original Nintendo Switch, announced in 2016 but released March 2017, felt like a total surprise with its innovative modular design and snap-on controllers. The Switch 2 is not

Nintendo Co. said it will reveal the next-generation Switch 2 on April 2, setting in motion the retirement of the nearly eight-year-old flagship model.