On September 4, Nintendo announced “Nintendo Direct 2026.9.9,” set to stream September 9 at 23:00 JST, but the program page’s description mentioned only “information on Nintendo Switch 2 software” — the words “Nintendo Switch,” previously listed alongside it, were nowhere to be found. On 5ch’s hardware/industry board, this shift sparked a wave of reactions along the lines of “so the old model is finally getting cut,” while other, cooler-headed posters countered with “this is neither bad news nor good news, just the expected course of things.” Opinions in the thread were split over just how far the transition to the Switch 2 has actually progressed.
The words “Nintendo Switch” have been dropped from the Nintendo Direct announcement, leaving only “Switch 2.” Is the original Switch’s treatment hitting a turning point?
On September 4, Nintendo announced that “Nintendo Direct 2026.9.9” would stream on September 9 at 23:00. The official site’s program page states, “We’ll bring you information on Nintendo Switch 2 software, centered on titles launching this winter” — and the original Nintendo Switch is notably absent from what’s being covered.
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Apparently the PS5 is also dropping the disc drive entirely, by the way.
Rough.
while indies and small-to-mid studios stick with the original Switch.
Seriously, make a Switch 2 version already.
Nobody could've predicted things would get this bad back when development started.
Nintendo basically always cuts the previous generation once a new console launches.
Otherwise what's even the point of releasing a new console? Normally the first party drives adoption, and that's what draws third parties in, right?
PlayStation leaves it all to third parties, so once the exclusives dry up… yeah. And even those third parties' new releases haven't been selling well lately, though digital sale downloads seem to do okay.
Doesn't seem like Switch games are going away entirely.
If that were the case they wouldn't have specifically written "Switch 2," so that's not it.
I thought Fate/EXTRA was Switch 2 exclusive, so I was a little surprised it's coming to Switch too
Maybe publishers aren't cutting Switch yet — or can't afford to, sales-wise.
There'll probably still be plenty of games releasing on the original Switch as normal.
But of course that could never happen with Nintendo's wonderful hardware.
Users or publishers who still haven't bought a Switch 2 and are clinging to the original — I guess they just don't deserve Nintendo.
Wii U says: "…huh?"
It's all over by January 2028 anyway.
What's showing up in Famitsu's charts is probably just existing owners buying replacement units, not people with any intention of moving to the Switch 2.
The rumored Romancing SaGa 3 remake is also confirmed for the original Switch.
Unlike with PlayStation.
Can't just pull the plug overnight.
Basically they just made the Switch 2 the main focus of the marketing, that's all.
Games like Powerful Pro Baseball that don't even have a Switch 2 version — those are the problem.
Did you not even read the Direct announcement text?
Vertical multi-releases across Switch/Switch 2, like SaGa 3 which leaked from the ratings board, are fine
It's Switch-only titles, like Powerful Pro Baseball, that are the problem, that's all.
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
For Nintendo’s hybrid home/portable consoles, it’s typical for software support for the previous generation to continue for a while even after a successor launches — during the transition periods for both the 3DS and the Wii U, titles for the older hardware kept coming out in parallel. This Direct announcement simply indicates “the range of titles the program will cover”; it isn’t a declaration that releases for the original Switch are ending outright. In fact, the thread itself brought up original-Switch-compatible titles like the Romancing SaGa 3 remake and Fate/EXTRA, showing that third-party support is still a mixed bag at this stage. Where the thread split was over whether to read this wording change as “the starting gun for a completed transition” or merely “narrowing down what the show promotes” — a difference rooted in how far along people feel the Switch 2’s adoption actually is.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry (Geha)) thread “[Bad News] Original Switch Might Get Snubbed From the Next Nintendo Direct.”
