The original Switch came out in March of 2017 with a $299 price tag. Leaks and rumors suggest the Switch 2 could release in June of 2025. The price will likely fall somewhere between $399 and $499 USD.

The Nintendo Switch 2 release date may have just been leaked by a retailer and its listing for the new Nintendo console.

Now that we have an official look at the Nintendo Switch 2, we can start to dig in to the accuracy of the leaks, with the caveat that there’s still a lot to learn about the console. The big one to start with is the leaked unveiling date for the Switch 2: Yep,

Former PR managers and employees of Nintendo discuss how the company is feeling and handling the Nintendo Switch 2 leaks.

The bigger rumor comes from the Famiboards forums (as spotted by The Game Post ), which tends to feature a ton of gaming leaks. There, leaker and dataminer ZachyCatGames has posted that the Switch 2's GPU clock speeds could hit or surpass 560 MHz when the handheld is in portable mode

Based on how the first Nintendo Switch launch went down, customers may be able to buy the Nintendo Switch 2 as soon as June 2025.

The Switch 2 might not be a radical reinvention of what came before, but Nintendo’s new hardware does sport some unique quirks, distinguishing it from the original handheld hybrid that arrived back in 2017.

As we noted on our Switch 2 live blog, price speculation has ranged from $399 up to $499... and the newest leak suggests that that premium price could be closer to the truth. Citing an anonymous source, X user @Shpeshal_Nick explained that he was told the new Nintendo console could set you back $449 or as much as $499 at launch.

Nintendo has dropped a first-look trailer for the Switch 2, and some gamers are wondering if its design is too similar to the original.

Details of what the Nintendo Switch 2 can actually do are somewhat scare at the moment, but there's one thing it could do to surpass the first Switch.