Developers working on Nintendo Switch 2 games have reportedly been told not to expect the console before April 2025

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Developers working on games for the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Nintendo Switch 2 - or whatever the mystery gadget end🐲s up being called - have reportedly been told not to expect the console before April 2025. 

The tidbit comes 🔯from Gameindustry.biz's Microcast podcast, where the publication's head of games, Christopher Dring, says developers had been briefed o꧑n the console's later-than-expected launch plans. 

. "In fact, they've been told not to expect it in the [current] financial year. A bunch of people I spoke to hope it's out in April or May time, still early next year, not late."

Bloomberg's Takashi Mochizuki later corroborated the news and ✱ that "recently fewer people are considering March as a possibility" for the Switch 2's launch.

Nintendo previously said it would announce the Switch successor 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:"within this fiscal year", which ends on March 31, 2025, though it now looks like it won't launch in the same period. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Other rumors also suggested that the console had been delayed to next year to fight off scalpers, and with so many 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming Switch games on the hꦍorizon, I can't really be too sad at the elongated wait. 

All signs point to a slightly longer wait for Nintendo's next console; the only question now is how much longer. Xbox is already planning its 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Fable and Doom: The༺ Dark Ages release dates around the inevitable black hole that'll spawn from GTA 6's 2025 launch, and for the sake of everyone's ever-growing backlogs, I'm hopꦑing Nintendo's hybrid console als🐽o avoids brushing up against the open-world behemoth.

Other rumors claimed that the Nintendo Switch 2 would have physical and digital backward compatibility, plus “enhanced” older games.

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