A recent leak by a French retailer, which was also previously hinted at by Felipe Lima, reveals that the game cases for the Nintendo Switch 2 gaming console will be substantially larger than before. The previous game cases had dimensions of 16.9 x 10.4 cm, which have now been rumored to grow by around 2.5 cm in both dimensions. The exact reason behind the change is not clear, although speculations hint at multiple possibilities.

We do know that the game cartridges for the Switch 2 will be backwards compatible with the original Switch, which has been confirmed by Nintendo. This obviously means that the cartridges themselves will retain their size, making the larger game cases rumor all the more confusing. Unsurprisingly, folks on Reddit aren't exactly thrilled with this development, with some complaining that their game cases will no longer line up perfectly on their shelves if the rumor is to be believed, while others have mentioned that the additional internal real estate might be to accommodate instruction manuals, or something of that sort.Either way, there is no way to know for sure right now. As with all rumors, be sure to accept this information with a grain of salt, since the information received by the French retailer might simply be a placeholder value. The Switch 2 is expected to launch sometime within the first half of this year, with a larger display, a relatively powerful NVIDIA Tegra T239 SoC with a 3.1 TFLOPS Ampere GPU, as well as new magnetic hall-effect Joy Cons.