A few weeks before the performance, experts daring concrete forecasts around Switch 2. How deep will we have to dig into our pockets?
On April 2, 2025, clarity around Switch 2 will prevail, because then Nintendo will announce all relevant details about the new console in a special direct issue. A few weeks in advance, experts and analysts now dare to make concrete forecasts to start the switch to the switch. What price will we have to calculate, when does the platform appear and how successfully it will sell? Experts in the game industry now answered these questions Bloomberg.
If it is based on the experts, the Nintendo Switch 2 will put the biggest launch of a console ever – despite the price. Reason: The experts expect a minimal price of $ 399, but Nintendo could also bring the console onto the market for $ 499. Incidentally, upcoming Switch 2 games could be more expensive, because here an increase in software prices to almost usual $ 70 is now considered likely.
The renowned magazine tried for the statements a number of analysts “who regularly communicate with Nintendo and their software and hardware partners”. According to these, expectations of Switch 2 are immensely high.
One of these analiest is Robin Zhu by Stanford C. Bernstein, who has also commented on the expected release date. He assumes a console launch in June 2025, which coincides with previous assistance over a possible time window for publication.
The ZHU also assumes that the Switch 2 should have a whopping 6 to 8 million copies available for the launch of the Switch. Previous reports said that Nintendo delayed the publication until this year in order to be able to provide corresponding quantities and to avoid bottlenecks.
This in turn could also help to collect immensely high sales at an early stage. Just to be able to classify: from the so successful first switch, 2.7 million copies were sold in the first month from the release and 4.5 million copies by Sony's PlayStation 5 in the first quarter. The supposedly available amount of Switch-2 consoles could help outperform all previous consoles at an early stage-provided a corresponding interest. And according to another renowned analyst, namely Serkan Toto, there is no doubt about this: “You will sell ship loads from Switch 2 in the first few months, almost independently of the price,” said his forecast.
