After seven years on the market, 146 million systems, and more than 1 billion games sold, Nintendo has finally announced the Nintendo Switch. The rumor mill was heating up in January, and this culminated with Nintendo officially announcing the console with a debut trailer on January 16. A Nintendo Direct event dedicated to the system will take place on April 2. Also in April, fans will get to try the system out for themselves at pre-release “Experience” events taking place around the world.
This post covers what we know about the system’s form factor, rumors about the the Switch 2 release date, price, launch games, backward compatibility, and more.
There are plenty of unanswered questions remaining about the Switch 2, but for now, here’s all the essential information we have.