No Big Surprise: The Switch Successor will be Announced Within a Year

General news News Nintendo Nintendo News 05/08/2024

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The Japanese company is indeed working on a successor to the Nintendo Switch, as the big N hinted at in its quarterly report.

We’ll probably come back to this tomorrow (so we can talk about game sales figures), but we’ll quickly mention that 141.32 million Nintendo Switch units were sold as of March 31. That’s about two million units sold in the first three months of 2024, which isn’t a lot. Let’s talk instead about the successor, whose name is still unknown, so at most we can call it Nintendo Switch 2, as it will have a similar format according to rumors (portable but dockable platform).

Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa confirmed during the financial report that Nintendo Switch 2 will be announced this fiscal year. This means that we will see the platform by the end of March 2025 at the latest. Announcement does not equal launch, but since the Switch hit stores in March 2017, it’s likely that the Japanese company will follow a similar example this time around, with rumors that it will be available for purchase sometime in early 2025.

Furukawa’s comment was even shared by Nintendo on Twitter: “This is Satoru Furukawa, President of Nintendo. We will make an announcement about the successor to Nintendo Switch within this fiscal year. It will be over nine years since we announced the existence of Nintendo Switch in March 2015. We will hold a Nintendo Direct this June regarding the Nintendo Switch software lineup for the second half of 2024, but please be aware that there will be no mention of the successor to Nintendo Switch during that presentation.”

This is Furukawa, President of Nintendo. We will make an announcement about the successor to Nintendo Switch within this fiscal year. It will have been over nine years since we announced the existence of Nintendo Switch back in March 2015. We will be holding a Nintendo Direct…

— 任天堂株式会社（企業広報・IR） (@NintendoCoLtd) May 7, 2024

So June will bring the usual Nintendo Direct, where the company will show off the last of the Switch’s major exclusives, and it will be necessary because while it’s certain that more games will be held back for the Switch’s successor, the Switch needs a little push if it has a real chance of catching up to the PlayStation 2’s record-breaking sales of maybe 160 million (according to Jim Ryan, ex-president of Sony Interactive Entertainment!).

So go all in.

Source: WCCFTech, Nintendo

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