It seems that the Japanese company will not kick the Switch into the grave as soon as its successor is released (like Microsoft did with the first Xbox console after the launch of the Xbox 360…).

Shuntaro Furukawa, Nintendo’s CEO, was interviewed by Nikkei and Serkan Toto tweeted about it. Since the full interview is behind a paywall, we can only rely on the industry analyst’s summary. According to the analyst, the interview doesn’t get much attention, but it does point out two interesting details, as the Switch and its successor could soon be on an interesting trajectory.

Until the end of the current fiscal year, Nintendo will definitely focus on the Switch, so Furukawa essentially told us what we already knew: until the end of March 2024, the big N will not launch the Switch 2 (still the same: we’ll call it that for lack of an official name). The interesting thing is that the Japanese company will continue to support the hybrid platform, which is a huge success, until March 2025!

Just yesterday, we wrote about the Switch’s successor and when a release date might be realistic based on a job posting, but a few months after that, there could be games that the Japanese company is not only developing for the new hardware, but also porting to the currently six-and-a-half-year-old Switch. (So there could be cross-generational development… which is rare for Nintendo; most recently, one of the Switch’s launch titles, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, was one of those).

We’ve heard plenty of rumors about Switch 2: for example, Nintendo revealed in a closed-door presentation at Gamescom that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild ran at 4K resolution with a 60fps frame rate, presumably thanks to Nvidia’s upscaling technology, DLSS 2. (Don’t get your hopes up for DLSS 3; it debuted on Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4000 graphics cards, while the new N hardware may be based on an architecture that’s a generation behind…)

Source: WCCFTech