Nintendo Switch 2: New console already in 2024? Microsoft expects that!

The rumors about a successor to the Nintendo Switch continue to gain momentum. The legal dispute between Microsoft and the FTC now also reveals when the probably better informed competition from Redmond expects the Switch 2.

It has long been an open secret that Nintendo is working behind the scenes on a new console that is to follow the switch – after all, the current platform was released in 2017 and is therefore already a few years old. Speculations have recently been circulating that the first Switch 2 dev kits have already been delivered to game developers.

And indeed, the new Nintendo hardware might not seem too far away from a release. At least that’s what the documents that have been published as part of the current legal dispute between Microsoft and the US regulator FTC regarding the planned acquisition of Activision and Blizzard suggest again.

There is a section there that discusses why Microsoft isn’t more specifically tracking and listing current Nintendo sales as opposed to PlayStation. The Redmond company justifies this with the different point in time at which the respective consoles are already in their life cycle.

As a result, Microsoft then gives a forecast of when a successor to the switch is expected there – and this promises a possible early release of the platform. “The Switch was released three years early and Nintendo is expected to release the successor to the Switch possibly next year while the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S are at a different stage in their console cycle.” it in the court document.

If you assume that the competition probably knows a lot about when the competitors will be launching new hardware, the chances are not very bad that the Switch 2 might actually be available as early as 2024.

The latest rumors about the dev kits sent out and the fact that developers and publishers like Ubisoft are already openly talking about a switch successor would fit in with this.