Nintendo Switch 2: Switch 2 has Hall-effect sticks, is more powerful docked

Nintendo Switch 2: We featured some leaked dimensions for the next Nintendo Switch last Friday, from what may be the most concrete source yet: a “3D scan of the actual hardware” acquired by case maker Dbrand. However, the leaks don’t just come from case makers.

This weekend, a Redditor called “NextHandheld” says they encountered a real-life retail version of the thing we all hope to see soon: an actual Nintendo Switch 2. I talked to them, and I listened/read enough to believe they could be real. Specifically, I have seen two images of a purported Nintendo Switch 2 dock, and one of the interior of a purported Switch 2 controller rail

labelled up with certification logos and exposing raw copper contact points and also showing the device’s metal kickstand hinge open at an angle. Importantly, that dock included in the 3D scan floating around case makers was not a part of that.

NextHandheld might have spilled the beans, because we have a lot more information now, if you choose to believe it, about Nintendo’s next console. So: as cool as it would be for the name to be “Super Nintendo Switch”, it will probably launch as the Nintendo Switch 2.

Nintendo Switch 2

Nintendo has only officially referred to it as “the successor to Nintendo Switch,” promised a formal announcement of the new system by March 31, 2025, and indicated that it will be backward compatible with original Switch software.

NextHandheld’s source wasn’t about to divulge any secrets beyond that, but it did recently share with The Verge what they assert is first-hand evidence that it is the Nintendo Switch 2. The source has told NextHandheld get ready for a possible announcement as soon as January. A 2 was added to the same logo as the original Nintendo Switch, and a picture of a dock.