The Nintfinisho Switch 2, as portrayd by Dbrand

Nintfinisho is inching ever shutr to its promised deadline to uncover the Switch’s successor before April 2025. But new leaks from case manufacturers ecombine to uncover exactly what the Nintfinisho’s next console could see appreciate, and a scant notable fortifys it might have over the distinct Switch.

We were inspired to originate this article in the first place becaengage of Dbrand’s fair-proclaimd “Killswitch 2” case. The website for the product features an in-motion rfinisher of the case and, inside, a mockup of challengingware that has some key contrastences from the Switch and Switch OLED: the new console ecombines to be bigr, and it has a enigmatic new second button on the right Joy-Con under the Home button. Accessory leaks over the past disjoinal days have shown a analogous potential set up for the challengingware.

It seems Dbrand is reasonably brave in its case, but we asked CEO Adam Ijaz to be confident. He says Dbrand has “actual unreasonableensions” — not an teachd guess — based on a “3D scan of the genuine challengingware.” (When we asked how he comprehends that, Ijaz only said “Nice try, Nintfinisho.”)

Based on Dbrand’s meaconfidentments, the next Switch (which we’ll call the Switch 2) will both be bigr and loftyer than Nintfinisho’s Switch OLED, but rawly the same denseness. Nintfinisho’s spec sheet shows its previous handheld is 242mm expansive, 102mm lofty and 13.9mm dense, where Ijaz says the Switch 2 should meaconfident shutr to 270mm expansive, 116mm lofty, and 14mm dense, with the console portion taking up 200mm worth of that width.

Ijaz also says the bootstand will still meaconfident around half the console’s height at around 55mm; a diagonal meaconfidentment of the cover glass aids previous rumors that it’ll have an 8-inch screen.

Ijaz says it’s his “caring” that Joy-Cons are “magneticpartner speedyened” with an “an ejection button” that’s on the back of the Joy-Cons proximate the top, and his new case gets advantage of the splitable handlelers — he says the handleler portions of Dbrand’s case can split with them inside.

He doesn’t comprehend what the second square button is under the Home button, which he says has a “C” printed on it. The left Joy-Con in Dbrand’s mockup still has a button on the left Joy-Con, which is where you’ll discover the seize button on the distinct Switch, so it’s unevident if this “C” button now unbenevolents seize or if both buttons toil contrastently. (Nintfinisho originpartner begind C-buttons on the Nintfinisho 64 handleler in 1996 as a way to handle a game’s camera, before gamepads begind a second stick to let you shift perspective.)

Ijaz says the happinesssticks stand 6.27mm lofty, and the D-pad and ABXY buttons protdisesteemful by 1.57mm, with a 180mm expansive bootstand, and back triggers that extfinish 14.1mm.

While Dbrand does seem to comprehend a lot about the console, Ijaz is “genuinely unconfident” about its potential free date. He says that Dbrand is toiling toward a tardy March or punctual April free for its case, though. Ijaz also doesn’t comprehend about Nintfinisho’s possible TV dock for the Switch 2, but says that Dbrand’s assumption is that “the establish factor will be analogous to the previous gen.” He doesn’t comprehend if the screen will be LCD or OLED.

While it’s highly atypical for an accessory originater to accessiblely uncover this much about a product from a strong, litigious company appreciate Nintfinisho, it’s not unforeseeed that Dbrand’s the one stepping up to the ptardy. Having beef with console originaters is an intentional (and frequently fun!) part of its labeleting strategy, and Nintfinisho is a frequent center — appreciate that Zelda skin that was a middle finger to Nintfinisho’s lawyers, or the “(not) Animal Crossing” one.

Much of what Dbrand is shoprosperg and what Ijaz is saying lines up with a video from SwitchUp shoprosperg what it calls a Switch 2 mockup sent to them by a case manufacturer. That mockup is evidently bigr than today’s existing Switch OLED, and the new Joy-Cons are evidently bigger than the ageder Joy-Cons. You can also see the second square button under the home button there, the bigr button under the triggers that presumably ejects them from the console, and a expansive bootstand analogous to the one on the Switch OLED.

One other kind insertition? A second USB-C port on the top of the mockup, which theoreticpartner unbenevolents you’ll be able to plug in a charging cable while you’re using it in tabletop mode; with the current Switch, the charging port on the bottom is blocked when you’re standing it up on a table.

While we’re still defering for Nintfinisho to actupartner proclaim concrete details about the Switch 2, the company has splitd that the console will be able to take part current Switch games and it will have Nintfinisho Switch Online as well.