Earlier this year, Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa announced that the successor to the Switch will be released within the fiscal year ending in March 2025. Since then, there has been no official news and the leaks have dried up, but this iseeeewwwww, writer Paul Gale claimed on X that the Nintendo Switch 2’s launch window will see significantly more third-party releases than we saw for the original Switch in 2017.
Gale says some of the big third-party developers who ignored the Switch don’t plan on making the same mistake again. After all, the Switch became the second best-selling home console of all time and could take the top spot this year.
Gale didn’t reveal any details about the developers or the specific games we can expect, but did claim that there will be “significant ports, parallel releases, and exclusives” during the launch window. This would be a big change from the previous generation, as top publishers and developers like Ubisoft, EA, FromSoftware, and Rockstar Games refrained from releasing their latest games on the Switch, at least in part due to technical reasons.
At this point I should note that Paul Gale does not have a flawless track record when it comes to Switch leaks. He previously reported that the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild would mean Breath of duality (which was not the case).
Still, we have every reason to believe that the Switch 2 will be much more powerful than its predecessor, which would open the door for more third-party AAA games. The Switch didn’t need Call of Duty, Assassin’s Creedor College Football 25 to be successful, but the Switch 2 could be an even bigger success with games like those in its library.
