Nintendo has thrown Swap gamers a long-awaited bone alongside asserting its end-of-year financials outcomes, confirming the console’s successor will probably be unveiled earlier than April, 2025. Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa mentioned {that a} next-generation Nintendo Swap console will probably be introduced “inside this fiscal yr” — giving the Japanese gaming large a deadline of March thirty first, 2025. That aligns properly with its present Q1 2025 rumored launch.
Concerning the Swap 2 console announcement, Furukawa mentioned:
We’ll make an announcement concerning the successor to Nintendo Swap inside this fiscal yr. It’s going to have been over 9 years since we introduced the existence of Nintendo Swap again in March 2015. We will probably be holding a Nintendo Direct this June concerning the Nintendo Swap software program lineup for the latter half of 2024, however please bear in mind that there will probably be no point out of the Nintendo Swap successor throughout that presentation.
In the meantime, Nintendo’s forecast alerts an anticipated slowdown in Swap console gross sales, projecting to promote 13.5 million Swap consoles this yr in comparison with the 15.7 million models bought the earlier fiscal yr. Web revenue throughout the upcoming yr can be anticipated to fall by 39 %, alongside a projected 19 % fall in income.
Nintendo hasn’t given up on the present technology of Swap consoles, nevertheless. In its forecast the corporate mentioned it’ll “attempt to not solely put one system in each residence, however a number of in each residence, and even one for each individual.”
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