Nintendo is making it official: The Nintendo Switch 2 gaming console will arrive in 2025. The Japanese video game giant announced the new Switch Thursday morning, alongside the first official images of the device.

Despite approaching eight years since it launched, analysis of Nintendo’s financial data and weekly Famitsu sales shows that Switch sold just over 3 million units in Japan last year. That compares to over 4 million in 2023, and nearly 5 million in 2022.

The video reveal was just the beginning, as Nintendo's Switch 2 is primed to dominate the gaming world all year long.

It’s been months of waiting for official Switch 2 news. Nintendo confirmed the existence of the device last year, and it’s been a drip feed of news from leakers ever since. Now that the Switch 2 officially exists and we can put a face and name to the concept of the Switch successor,

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.

The Switch 2 has officially made its debut, and we're so excited. Even so, we're still on the edge of our seat waiting to know these three things.

A reader is surprised at just how positive the response has been to the Nintendo Switch 2 reveal and asks what that means for the console’s success.

The original Switch came out in 2017, and — though graphics prowess has never been a huge part of the Nintendo ethos — if Nintendo is to expand the variety and scope of the games people can play on its console, it needs to keep up with current technology.

Switch 's online gaming service, ostensibly Nintendo's answer to PlayStation Plus and Xbox Game Pass. It began as a subscription that lets you play multiplayer titles via the internet, enable select cloud saves,

Speculation over Nintendo's new console, a successor to the wildly popular Switch, reached a fever pitch Thursday with specialist media predicting an imminent announcement from the Japanese gaming giant.

2025 might be the second golden age of portable gaming, with potentially more insane competition coming ahead of us