Nintendo Switch 2 to launch in June after May event claims insider-Adam Starkey-Entertainment – Metro

We might have a little while to wait for the Switch 2 (Nintendo)

More rumours have emerged about Nintendo’s next console, as an insider claims another Kirby game is heading to Switch next year.

Nintendo’s successor to the Switch is set to be announced before next April, but there’s still a wealth of speculation as to when it will actually launch.

The rollout of the original Switch saw it revealed in October 2016, before it launched in March the following year. Since it’s missed the chance to replicate that schedule, many now suspect that Nintendo’s next console won’t be out until some point in the second half of 2025.

However, several new rumours have suggested the console might be pushed out before or during the summer next year, in what feels like unusual timing for a game console launch.

The question of a summer launch was discussed on Nate The Hate’s podcast, where he suggested that he had heard of a similar release window, based on ‘industry chatter’.

‘What I can say on this topic is, as of late September, early October, there’s been a lot of industry chatter around the release window of the Switch 2,’ Nate said. ‘And that release window in this chatter has been late May to June.’

While he clarifies that this ‘is not gospel’, he claims it is the timeframe industry ‘partners and companies have as their internal expectations’.

Expanding on this report, Nate further claims an event for the Switch 2 is set to take place at some point in May next year. While he doesn’t have any details on the event specifically, he speculates it would be ‘similar’ to the press event for the original Switch, which took place in January 2017, two months before the console launched.

‘One piece of information I do have, that these reports do not, is that I’ve heard Nintendo is preparing and planning to host an event in May that will be focused on Switch 2,’ he added.

While this doesn’t entirely align with the previous two-month gap between the Switch media event and its launch in March, it’s certainly possible that Nintendo could have a shorter timeframe between these milestones for its next console.

It’s time for a new console (Nintendo)

The bigger question is why launch a console during the summer, which is traditionally the quietest period for video game sales and not a time of year when most people are thinking of buying new hardware.

There could be various reasons but the launch of GTA 6 in autumn is certain to take the air out of the room for anything else video game related, even including the Switch 2.

Elsewhere on the podcast, Nate, who has a fairly decent track record for gaming rumours, also claimed Kirby: Planet Robobot will be released on Switch in 2025. The platformer was originally released on the Nintendo 3DS in 2016, and as Nintendo has a habit of rolling out Kirby games at the end of a console’s lifecycle, it certainly sounds plausible.

While Nintendo has confirmed nothing about the Switch 2, except that it’s backwards compatible, leaks earlier this week appeared to show the new seemingly magnetic Joy-Con controllers with a back pedal.

Kirby might be back on Switch soon (Nintendo)

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