Nintendo announced it would share details of the successor to the Switch by the end of the fiscal year, in other words before the end of March 2025. Speculation and rumours have been in overdrive since then with a handful of official announcements scattered in between them all.

Nintendo quietly dropped a new update for Switch, Switch Lite, and Switch OLED consoles this week with one small change.

Nintendo failed to get ahead of Switch 2 leaks, which has taken the wind out of the console's hype cycle. The original Switch release was an unforgettable, industry-changing event, and Nintendo has stifled its ability to recreate that.