Shuntaro Furukawa, the president of Nintendo, says that the company might abandon making home consoles (such as the PlayStation 4 or the Xbox One).

Furukawa talked about the subject to Japanese publication Nikkei. He says Nintendo isn’t fixated on making consoles, and thus, they might shift away from it to adequately respond to the needs of the entertainment industry. „We aren’t really fixated on our consoles. At the moment we’re offering the uniquely developed Nintendo Switch and its software – and that’s what we’re basing how we deliver the ‘Nintendo experience’ on. That being said, technology changes. We’ll continue to think flexibly about how to deliver that experience as time goes on. It has been over 30 years since we started developing consoles. Nintendo’s history goes back even farther than that, and through all the struggles that they faced the only thing that they thought about was what to make next. In the long-term, perhaps our focus as a business could shift away from home consoles – flexibility is just as important as ingenuity,” Furukawa said, translated by Nintendo Everything.

So the big N might be taking a bow out of the console market and maybe go for mobile platforms, and the Nintendo Switch is already a portable product. We should remember Furukawa’s thoughts.

Source: WCCFTech