Considering the original Switch's massive install base, it's likely that Nintendo will continue supporting the platform for quite some time. 2025 alone will see plenty of major new games released for the Nintendo Switch, with the company recently taking the time to single out 15 games that are coming to the console this year.

Throughout most of last year, it was business as usual in Switch 2 leak land. A few details emerged in reports sourced from behind-closed-doors meetings with Nintendo’s partners, and a pretty complete, if hazy, picture of the console’s form and features was built up: the magnetic Joy-Cons, the AI-assisted upscaling tech, the backward compatibility.

A newly-discovered patent from Nintendo hints at the upscaling technology that might make 4K games possible on the Switch 2.