For months there have been tons of leaks surrounding the release of the Nintendo Switch 2, the successor to Nintendo’s successful handheld console. There is no official information such as a reveal or even release date. Now, however, a leak gave an indication of which game the console could launch with.
What kind of leak is this? A leak shared on X.com on December 17, 2024 provides new information about the alleged components of the Switch 2 and also shows accessories that will be released for the console.
One accessory shown is, for example, a steering wheel into which you can insert a Joycon to use it for steering in racing games. A similar steering wheel is already available for the Switch 1 and was also available on the Nintendo Wii.
The leak also shows a type of controller holder for a single Joycon, with the stick in an unusual middle position.
You can see the shared images on X.com here:
Is Nintendo sending you back to the racetrack on the Switch 2?
Which game could the Switch 2 start with? You’ve probably already guessed it: The steering wheel accessory could indicate that a new Mario Kart spin-off could be released – and since the steering wheel accessory is apparently already in production, a possible Mario Kart 9 should also be released quite early in the year Life cycle of the Switch 2 will be released.
In general, it can be assumed that the Switch 2 will appear with a big, prestigious title. The big Nintendo franchises are particularly likely, i.e. Mario, Pokémon and Zelda. The Switch 1 was released together with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on March 3, 2017.
However, Breath of the Wild only received a successor with Tears of the Kingdom in May 2023:
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How likely is the leak? So far, Nintendo has not released any official information about the upcoming Switch 2 games or possible accessories. In general, we are still waiting for a proper announcement of the Switch 2 – more than just the post from the Japanese Nintendo account on X.com in early November 2024.
So you should view every leak and every rumor about the console with a certain degree of skepticism. There are no clues or clues that reveal how realistic a leak is.
Since Mario Kart 8 was released in 2014 and even appeared for the Wii U, it is quite conceivable that a new Mario Kart will appear in the life cycle of a possible Switch 2. With a total of 64 million units sold (via Nintendo.com), Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is not only one of the best-selling Nintendo games of all time, it also makes the series big enough to trigger the release of a new console.
Nintendo announced the Switch 2 with a trailer or something similar, but the company’s president, Shuntaro Furukawa, already spoke of a “successor model” of the console in a QnA in November 2024 and explained that you don’t have to expect delivery problems: Nintendo’s president assures that getting a Nintendo Switch 2 will be easy