GoPro Max 2 hit by further delays – 2025 is the earliest we'll see the 360-degree action cam

• The GoPro Max 2 is now expected successful 2025
• GoPro execs announced nan news successful an net call
• We were hoping to spot it earlier nan extremity of 2024

We've been waiting a agelong clip for nan GoPro Max 2, and it seems we're going to person to hold immoderate more: successful nan company's latest quarterly net call, CEO Nicholas Woodman announced nan 360-degree camera would beryllium arriving successful 2025.

GoPro primitively told america nan Max 2 instrumentality was "in nan works" measurement backmost in September 2023, and past in May 2024 we sewage nan estimate of a Q4 2024 motorboat model – which pointed towards an quality successful October, November, aliases December.

Now nan GoPro Max 2 motorboat day has slipped again, though we haven't sewage overmuch accusation complete what's happened. Last clip nan "development process" was blamed, truthful presumably it's taking overmuch longer to get this camera vanished than GoPro first estimated.

Let's not hide that nan first GoPro Max launched successful October 2019 – and our GoPro Max review will show you we were impressed pinch what it had to connection – and that intends it's now been a hold of complete 5 years for a successor.

What to expect

To put this hold successful perspective, since nan GoPro Max first showed up, Insta360 has launched 4 iterations of its ain 360-degree camera. The astir caller is this year's Insta360 X4, and arsenic you tin spot from our Insta360 X4 review, it's a awesome camera.

Being capable to lucifer Insta360 is going to beryllium a superior situation for GoPro. We've not heard excessively overmuch astir nan GoPro Max 2 truthful acold – isolated from its motorboat day being pushed backmost and backmost – but it will apparently travel pinch an upgraded cooling solution.

There should besides beryllium immoderate upgrades successful position of video seizure quality: nan GoPro Max tin sprout video astatine resolutions up to 5.6k. The value should beryllium absorbing too, arsenic nan first exemplary launched astatine a costs of $499.99 / £479.99 / AU$799.95.

We're holding connected to older comments from Nicholas Woodman that nan 360-degree camera is going to beryllium "worth nan wait". Perhaps erstwhile it yet does appear, it'll beryllium awesome capable to make america hide nan delays we had on nan way.

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