Nintendo says it will announce its next-gen Switch successor "within this fiscal year"

May. 7, 2024



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Nintendo has confirmed that theSwitch 2is in production in the most casual way imaginable. The publisher has taken to Twitter to say that it will “make an announcement about the successor to Nintendo Switch within this fiscal year.”

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Meanwhile, thisuber-rare prototype Super Famicomthat Nintendo built years before the SNES is set to fetch thousands at auction.

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