Here's our best guess at everything we'll be playing on the Nintendo Switch 2 when it finally launches later this year.
Level 5’s soccer RPG Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road is planned for release on PS5, PS4, Switch, Steam, Android and iOS in June 2025. The studio is also currently working on the first new main game in the Professor Layton series in over a decade. Puzzle-fantasy adventure Professor Layton and the New World of Steam is set to release for Switch in 2025.
Nintendo has an opportunity to avoid the pitfalls Sony and Microsoft wen through launching their current consoles.
The new console looks physically similar to the popular Switch system, which has sold more than 146 million units in seven years.
Xbox has mixed up its strategy over the past year - releasing four titles across Sony and Nintendo's platforms, and pushing a new marketing campaign making pretty much every device an Xbox. Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer has also mentioned how there are "no red lines" in terms of the software Xbox releases on other platforms going forward.
MLB The Show 25 is making some big changes for 2025. Sony’s annual baseball franchise revealed this week that it won’t be coming to Xbox Game Pass this year and it’s also ditching Sony’s last-gen console, though it’s still coming to Nintendo Switch.
While there’s no firm release date, fans may have a chance to go hands-in with the Switch 2 itself as soon as April. In a second post on X, Nintendo announced a series of demo experiences taking place throughout that month in New York, Los Angeles, and Dallas. Users can register for a tickets via a raffle at the company’s website.
Video game consoles used to be as fun as the games that could run them, but th Switch 2 signals that the era of hardware experimentation is ending.
If you missed it, Nintendo finally unveiled the Switch 2 this morning. It looks pretty much exactly like what the leaks said it would. It’s a bigger, presumably more powerful version of the beloved console/handheld hybrid that has magnetic Joy-Cons and can play your old Switch games,
Hideaki Nishino has become Sony Interactive Entertainment's sole CEO, after a period of joint rule with PlayStation
The Switch 2 is unlikely to be priced any lower than $349, the current cost of an OLED Switch model. $399 seems like a safe bet — the same price as the base Steam Deck. Any more than this and Nintendo will face uncomfortable comparisons to the new wave of PC handhelds.