Nintendo Reminds Us It's Not Ready To Announce The "Switch Successor"

Lol Nintendo really has the best strategy now for the switch 2. I think litteraly, the whole world knows about a switch successor. They made sure that they wont make the same mistake how they handled the WiiU. Where people thought it was just an add on for the wii.

I hope they dont come up with a strange name for it.
Just add the number 2 and everyone will know its a new console.

I can wait for next Switch machine so I can enjoy my current Switch games and PS5 games.

İ hope that Nintendo will not come again with a name like Switch U like Wii U but we will see.

Hope there’s some switch two news baby!

I know I'm probably very alone on this opinion and there's soon to be a flood of commentary about how the switch is so old and needs an upgrade, however I'm really not that excited to start fresh with another brand new system with barely any games for a very high price.

People get way too excited for what's to come and lose sight of what they could already be enjoying. Switch might be getting on in years but there's still a ton of undiscovered gems you could probably be playing right now while you wait.

@Truegamer79 Honestly the biggest reason why I'm so excited for the Switch 2 is new games. New 3D Mario, new Mario Kart, new Smash. Games that they won't put out on old hardware.

@Truegamer79 I feel you. Also to mention the ghost of the Wii U still exists and haunts Nintendo. They would have to be really careful with this one.

I want a Switch 2 mainly for newer games as Ice Climbers said, + 3rd parties that cannot run on Switch 1. But as you said, I can wait a bit for some time before getting a Switch 2.

@Anti-Matter Especially your Everybody 1-2 Switch 😉😏😉

I find the repeated reminders hilarious. It's like they have a secret boss reminding them that it's final battle will be unleashed if they don't remind everyone not the expect Mr. Switch Successor 😁

@Truegamer79 Definitely not alone in this feeling, I’m not really ready yet either, just a lot of stuff to still play and I just love the console!

@IceClimbersMain

At this point I'm starting to feel like i only find interest in Games related to a pre existing franchise like mario, zelda, Metroid etc. Once the newest versions of the familiar franchises release I'll be very hesitant to take a chance on anything else. Yeah obviously I'm excited about updates to my favorite franchises but i have a real problem trusting the unfamiliar. Maybe it's my age. I just stick with what's comfortable and if something surprises me that'll be great too!

I mean they are gonna say it as much as they have to otherwise people are gonna take silence as confirmation that it’s gonna get revealed, then it doesn’t, and then act like Nintendo “tricked” them.

Switch 2 Direct next week?

We know, Nintendo. We know.

@Arawn93 Exactly, as exciting as next-gen is, there's plenty of people who would interpret the silence as "They didn't say no. So it must be yes." Pretty sure I remember them having to do that with Smash too, considering how much hype was built up. It's like the meme goes: Hype responsibly.

I still don't think it actually exists.

I'm expecting it to just pop up one day with a flashy commercial. It certainly worked for them last time.

Of course, the Switch had a novel and obvious hook as the first big hybrid game system. I'm still waiting to see how this next one sets itself apart.

Looking forward to its reveal when the time comes, but it's good Nintendo puts the disclaimer out there.

You know, it's kinda said that Nintendo has to put out a disclaimer that they won't show the Switch successor in an indie + third party showcase

@Snatcher

Hahah as a dragonball fan, i read that in freezas voice 😂

At this point I'm thinking the Switch successor will be announced at the Grand Festival.

No like ... really. They are clearly trying to subvert expectations here and they don't want the media to control the narrative. What better way then telling 5 millions or so of your super fans before anyone else?

Plus, the style points ....

@mariomaster96

For sure. But it's also such an odd thing TO say. You're basically telling a bunch of people not to watch your Direct. I am pretty far removed from this type of marketing logic, but isn't the value of several million people watching your full length ad worth a few of them being vocally disappointed afterwards?

I mean they've likely spent tons in market research and this is the right call, I just don't understand it.

@HeadPirate It's more a message for shareholders. Switch 2 rumours/expectations have had a negative effect on their stock price before.

Anyone who's even slightly interested in games will watch anyway.

EDIT: It's also a form of courtesy to the devs to keep the focus on the games. Imagine working on your game for years, only to have the reveal spoiled by half the audience complaining about there not being a next-gen hardware announcement. It's good that they manage expectations.

You know with them mentioning it every time it would make sense to me that they are going to have a direct that is about it specifically. Like imagine if the next direct the have they don't give the disclaimer and then they don't talk about it, people would wonder why they didn't "temper their expectations" that time.

The ‘We are not announcing the successor’ statement is still a form of marketing for switch 2 lol

I Will most likely buy a switch 2 pretty fast, but the switch Will still be my main console. Huge backlog to play through on a great system. Want switch 2 fast so i can play whatever launches with it, and ive been holding out on some games because of performance, like hogwarths legacy.

We aren't going to start counting how many times Nintendo say this before the reveal are we? Who cares lol.

How many more times are Nintendo going to drop the ball?

@Snatcher @Truegamer79 - I feel the same way. This console is incredible; it offers almost everything I've ever enjoyed playing, from NSO to remakes and collections... and that's before considering the new games made specifically for it!

We've never seen a Nintendo console with such an extensive library of games! The Switch could keep me content for years with what I currently have and the vast array of games I've yet to explore.

Having said that, if the Switch 2 can indeed play Switch games, I'll be more inclined to upgrade early. Otherwise, I'm content to wait. I'm not ready to move on just yet.

@Qwiff

I totally get what you are saying. But look at it this way.

Case one: 5 million people watch because they are interested in the games, 5 million watch hoping for console preview. Sure, it's a small percentage of people who watch who were hoping for the console that are going to end up buying my game, but it's non-zero.

Case two: The same 5 million people watch because they are interested in games. The other 5 million people don't hear about my game.

I get more sales in case one, every time. That's clearly the better case for me. If anything I would say the opposite is at play here; Nintendo is turning people away so the conversion tracking looks good and they can charge more for time. I can't see it benefiting the people trying to sell their game.

As for the stockholder thing, do you mean they are trying to stop speculative buying by people who don't already own shares followed by a sell off? That makes sense.

Thanks for the reply.

I am a longtime nintendo fan and I just want nintendo to release the switch successor. I think it's long overdue at this point. The switch is really outdated for a while now. Totk was the breaking point for me. Such a great game being held back by obsolete hardware.

In other words. Calm the heck down. But that won’t stop the residents of delululand.

@Truegamer79 Totally. Literally the only reason that I want a Switch 2 is for the next iteration of Ring Fit Adventure. I feel like they’re waiting for that system for the sequel. If Ring Fit Adventure 2 came out for the Switch I have I would be so happy.

@Truegamer79 A lot of us have the money to burn on things like this though. So bring on the Switch 2 with a small collection of overpriced games I say.

Guys it's not about graphics and "shiny" new things. The current switch console has serious issues when it comes to loading times, performance (60 fps is a no go) and screen resolution (so many games on the switch are too blurry, which impacts gameplay at times). Give me stable 60 fps, snappy loading times and higher resolution and I'll be perfectly happy.

After reading your comments I realized, again, how this is generally a great situation. People love their current consoles - it is seeing an extended lifespan and keeps receiving first class games. At the same time the extended lifespan means the technical benefits of the next console are going to be significant. And when it eventually arrives, I’m excited for it.

On topic, even these disclaimers are great marketing. They’re building hype and awareness for what’s next while making sure there’s no irritation.

@HeadPirate Just jumping in to say that expectations are an extremely important factor. You can see it as quantity over quality. If you have only 1 mil people watching, but those all have a 90% chance of being your exact target audience, while you have another 5 mil with a 40% chance, that's already a big difference.
Now when people buy once a product and are disappointed with it, instead of making only happy customers who will come back and buy over and over ... that's a world of a difference.
You could also see it as long term planning/ROI versus short term. Lots of money right now/who cares about later, or, enough money for now and even more for later.

It make sense ,they wont put the risk on Indie game on a New Console

Do people need to be reminded of this? They aren't gonna just drop info on the next console in a Museum Direct or a Partner Direct dedicated to current hardware.

I would imagine we'd have some sort of dedicated communication to announce the console, probably Q1 next year.

@Truegamer79 Super Switch is strongly rumoured to be backwards compatible with the current Switch library. So no game’s being left behind as far as we currently know. They’ll just run better on the new hardware. That’s one reason why people are so hungry for it. I have so many Switch games that drop frames all over the place, that should be tidied up quite nicely by a successor system. I’m just bummed out that there’s apparently not going to be an OLED model like the current Switch has.

@Yalloo

In theory you're not wrong, but that's not how the math works here.

It's not 1 million people at 90% vs. 5 million at 30%.

It's 1 million people at 90% vs 1 million people at 90% + 4 million people at 30%. The second number is bigger.

The core audience that is interested in the games watch regardless, you just get additional people looking for a console update.

Even if every single people who watched it because they wanted a console update gets mad and never watches another direct ... that's breaking even. If they were going to watch the direct anyways, they are not part of the group that only watched because they wanted a console reveal.

So all that happened is a group of people who weren't going to watch in the first place aren't going to watch. You lost nothing.

@HeadPirate I get your maths, but I feel you're missing my point. It goes about how satisfied people are going to be. And it seems that they're aiming to get people satisfied, they're not looking to just get more people interested.
Think about the positive publicity from those few satisfied customers versus the negative publicity of many unhappy people who are not even customers.
I don't work at Nintendo, but that's how I analyze their move on this one.
And I also totally get your point, which is usually what companies are going for and what makes sense most of the time. But hey, it's Nintendo here doing what Nintendoes/Nintendon't 😅

@HeadPirate It's hard to say if there would be a positive net effect on any game announcements in the way you're describing. I think it's safe to assume that any concrete, official next-gen news will impact current-gen sales of both hardware and games. I.e. people will start thinking of saving their money. You don't want to put the audience in that mindset, at least not when you're announcing new, current-gen games.

As for the shareholder thing, I'm referring to stories from earlier this year, about next-gen anticipation affecting the stock price:

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2024/02/nintendo-shares-drop-following-latest-reports-of-switch-2-delay

it quite obvious, Nintendo will not reveal Switch sucessor this year, unless they want the console to negatively impact Switch holiday sales, Switch sucessor would/should problaby be revealed in february/march and launch in april/may.

They rally just want to ensure people aren't on the edge of their seat for an announcement during the Direct., so they can focus on the games instead. ^^

@The-Chosen-one People knew that a new Nintendo console was on the way before the Wii U was announced. The problem was that during the reveal trailer and afterwards, Nintendo failed to properly market the system. It also didn't help that they tried to capitalize on the Wii name without making the distinction between the two systems.

But at least it's not as bad as Xbox right now. Starting with the Xbox One, Microsoft has had a really boneheaded naming scheme for the system. I have to hand it to Sony, but when it comes to the PlayStation, they got it down pat, just slapping a 2, 3, 4, 5 (and so on) after the word PlayStation. I don't know what Nintendo is going to call the successor to the Switch, but if they keep the concept, it would make sense to call it the Switch 2, to let people know that it's a brand new system and not a peripheral for the original Switch.

Nintendo 2itch would be a pretty good name.
/s

@AstroTheGamosian
Indeed, i remember with the WiiU (which i loved)
That when i was buying a new game, i heard people wanting to buy a Nintendo console and they thought the WiiU was just an add on for the wii, so i explained it to them lol.

@The-Chosen-one Same. I also worked for my university’s bookstore, which had a tech department. We also sold video games and consoles. I’d have to explain to people that the Wii U was its own system, not an add-on for the Wii.

@Arawn93 exactly. I have a coworker who was ranting about how Nintendo has been teasing the switch 2 for years with no information.

No, they have been saying "the Switch isn't anywhere near done yet, stop asking" until very recently. People have been "leaking" that the switch 2 was coming out for like the last 5 years. People are just so mindless that they instantly believe any article they read. It must be frustrating to be a company and have some random person say things and it makes you the bad guy when he isn't right.

@The-Chosen-one "Switch Ultra 64" would be a dope name

November 2025

@MJF

Or those old commercials from back in the days 😂 Super Nintendo Switch 2 "Now you're playing with POWER!"

https://youtu.be/C6KOlC393lo?si=rFF35jSu2MfHAz47

@The-Chosen-one I can 100% guarantee Nintendo won't name it Nintendo Switch 2.

@LXP8
I kinda agree with you there, even tho i hope they keep it simple with adding a number on it.

@mariomaster96 They're aware of their fanbase.

Okay, hear me out: If it's running in 1080p, then call it the Nintendo 64*16.75.

@Truegamer79 I agree with you to a point, but for all of those great games already on Switch, there are a whole lot of them that suffer from poor resolution, unstable frame rate and lengthy load times. With backwards compatibility, Switch 2 instantly will be a breath of fresh air for every single Switch game that struggles with performance, and that in and of itself will create a new wave of evergreen titles in the first phase of Switch 2's lifespan.

@The-Chosen-one Eh, I don't know if adding a 2 would be a great name for it, but I guess it would work. Maybe they have a more creative name for the successor, but we'll see.

We won’t hear about it until after Christmas otherwise it would affect sales

It would at least be nice to have a time frame or confirmation that it will be backwards compatible (and how).

@Chadbury Yup. Same crap happened over the “Switch Pro” fiasco. Nintendo didn’t say crap about that, but leakers kept fanning the flames for something that never existed in the first place (no the OLED wasn’t it since these old leak descriptions are not accurate to the OLED at all besides the safe guess it was gonna have an OLED screen lol.)

I can wait, I watched for the Switch, I can wait here. Still no interest in a PS5/Series at all. I got a Wii U/3DS during 2018/2020 and was fair on that besides Wii U ports. I get the Switch original games or ports anyways. If BC or new gimmicks I want them to be exciting or fair games offered for the system or else pass. Sure Prime 4 but I had like what 10+ games I wanted on Switch. PS5/Series have barely that I care about for them let alone ANY really it's so boring on those platforms.

Got Switch in 2021. I can wait.

Or I can wait till the games I care for on them are cheap. I mean racing games I'm skeptical but played older entries and gone ah that's how they have changed. I can wait for them. They always go cheap later anyways.

Others from other genres are eh pretty average. Seem enough about them, most can get on old gen as 3rd parties. 1st party PS5/Series are so pathetically boring I can't even be bothered, the audience focus has changed, might as well move on to Switch and retro PS1-3/PSP/Vita/OG Xbox/360 pickups and have since 2017 anyways.

There is a reason I'm picking up old shooters/racing/platformers, action adventure and whatever hack n slash/tactics of old and modern as many genres trends and mechanics kind of suck.

Many Indies are too safe, copy this, eh hobbies, eh worlds and boring controls/level design/missions. If they tried harder sure, but their imaginations/nostalgia and making a distinct game are pretty weak.

It's a testament to the Switch that talk of a successor is so low! In the the past eras people would be speculating by as early as the 4th year what the new machine would bring! We'd get codenames and drawings of potential things it could look like etc.

Here it's just: I'm happy with what I got, please just make it a bit more powerful so I can keep getting my 3rd party fix on the go! 😂🤎

@The-Chosen-one
You said the number 2 when you meant the letter U.

With the Switch's age and old tech along with it missing out on big AAA releases and STILL no Trophy or Achievement system, it just feels stale to me. IF Switch 2 releases in Spring 2025, I'll be there day 1, but between now and then it just feels like the current Switch is on life support.

Also, with the rise of the PC handhelds, they've definitely knocked the Switch and the novelty of it down a peg or two. I think the Switch 2 will still be very successful, however I don't believe it will match the lifetime sales of the first Switch.

@garfreek That's total BS! There are SO MANY 3rd party titles that are NOT on Switch! I can understand if you only play Nintendo 1st party games and 8-bit or 16-bit pixel art style indie games, then yeah the Switch is great for that. But to say it has strong 3rd party support compared to PS and Xbox is just false.

@mariomaster96 Why? Nintendo only speaks publicly a few times a year, so naturally every time they announce a Direct people are going to be asking about the Switch 2.

@SleeplessKnight So you are saying people should expect an announcement of the Switch 2 in a indie/third party showcase?

@mariomaster96 I never said I was, but there are a lot of people who don't even know what "Indie" or "third party" even means, but they know there are rumors a new Switch is on the way.

@SleeplessKnight I honestly think a person who doesn't even know what "indies" or "third party" are would know, what a Nintendo Direct or similar is

People like that must be such casual players (this isn't meant as an insult) that I honestly doubt that they would even have heard about the Switch 2 yet

@SleeplessKnight Little to no third party support was one of the big reasons the WIIU fell on it's face. All the burden was on Nintendo, and some indie developers. Developers didn't have confidence on the machine and those who started with it eventually passed on it too.

And don't forget that "Skyrim and The Witcher on the go!!" Was one of the big reasons some people initially bought the Switch!

Saying we don't get enough third party is another point. I can agree with that, but we still get A LOT of third party now. I can play the absolute classics mostly on my Switch at this moment. So I don't really need an Xbox or PlayStation at the moment. But they need to do something or we're going right back to the WIIU days with no one helping fill that library.

How much longer is Nintendo waiting to announce this thing? We all know it’s coming eventually. However Nintendo isn’t done with the current console yet.