The 8-year-old Nintendo Switch is about to get a sequel, and we'll know a lot more on April 2. Nintendo revealed the Switch 2 via a several-minute-long YouTube trailer earlier this year that showed off the new console's contours and a single Mario Kart game but little else.

On March 27, Best Buy Canada published a (now deleted) blog post stating that Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders will drop on April 2. That follows the timeline set out by the previous handheld's launch exactly, giving us good reason to hope for early orders tomorrow.

Various rumors sprouted up, reporting that Switch 2 would launch in late 2023, possibly in 2024 or 2025. Nintendo officially squashed a 2023 release in May when president Shuntaro Furukawa insisted that Nintendo had no hardware releases planned for the year.

What's coming in the Switch 2? Early rumors suggest what we could see on the April 2 Nintendo Direct reveal video.

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We’re less than 48 hours away from the Switch 2 deep-dive everyone’s been waiting months for, and the biggest questions around power, price, release timing, and launch lineup still remain. Will Nintendo play it safe as it seems to have done so far with the new hardware,

Nintendo revealed what the new console looks like in a short teaser video in January, which confirmed details like the device's larger screen, and teased things like a new Mario Kart and some sort of mouse functionality for the Switch 2's Joy-Con controllers.

Nintendo Direct is going to be the can’t-miss showcase of the season, but I'm just ready for the rumors to finally relent.

Rumors suggest that Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders will open April 2, with the official Switch launch coming in June.