Nintendo Switch 2 report reveals launch window: “It’s ready”

The Nintendo Switch 2 will launch early next year, a new report says.

While Nintendo fans debate when they’ll finally officially hear about the Nintendo Switch 2 and when they can get their hands on the new console, a new report emerged this month that could potentially give us an answer to one of these questions. According to the CEO of a gaming peripherals company who recently spoke about the Nintendo Switch 2, the new Nintendo console is now “ready” and is expected to arrive in either March or April, a release window that falls in line with some other predictions for a time pointed out after March.

This time the Nintendo Switch 2 report comes from the Spanish website Vandal, which spoke to Rubén Mercado, the CEO of a company called Blade, which sells gaming accessories for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and PC platforms, among others . Mercado tells Vandal that “the console is ready” and that they apparently already had access to “virtually final consoles.”

Mercado further expanded the supposed March or April release window. According to Blade’s CEO, the release window will depend in part on Nintendo’s financials for the year. If things look good for Nintendo this year, the company will release the console at the start of the next fiscal year, which would be April 2024, he said.

March or April 2024 are both months we’ve seen in the past, and Mercado also reiterated some of the previous statements about the Nintendo Switch 2, such as claiming that it will have magnetic Joy-Con remotes attached to it can be attached to the sides of the console. Additionally, they are said to have a locking mechanism to prevent them from slipping, and there have been suggestions that the analog sticks will be “very different” to what we currently see on the current Nintendo Switch console range.

Blade is a reputable company, and Mercado is actually listed as CEO (as well as a contributor to Vandal itself) on its Twitter account, so there is at least some legitimacy behind these claims, via a random 4chan post or a leak from a new one Twitter goes beyond profile. On his Twitter account, Mercado responded to a question about whether he was worried about the impact of these leaks.

“We don’t have confidentiality agreements and the manufacturers that have those agreements know how much they can or can’t say,” he said, noting that such confidentiality agreements would vary by region and therefore could give him permission to say such things to say.

With the PlayStation 5 Pro now out of the way, the next big thing on the horizon is the Nintendo Switch 2. So Nintendo fans will have to live with such rumors and leaks until Nintendo decides to reveal more about the new console.