Nintendo claims that by March 2025, it will reveal the successor to its well-liked Switch system.
The president of the firm, Shuntaro Furukawa, posted on X on Tuesday, saying, “We will make an announcement about the successor to Nintendo Switch within this fiscal year.” “We first revealed the Nintendo Switch back in March 2015, so it will have been more than nine years.”
Fans who have been drooling over the possibility of a potential Switch successor—about which Nintendo executives have kept silent—will be relieved to hear the news.
Recently, sales have been declining. Reuters reports that the business anticipates selling 13.5 million Switch systems in the current fiscal year, down from 15.7 million units sold in the previous one.
One of Nintendo’s most popular products to date is the Switch, continuing the company’s rich history of producing gaming consoles and games. The main reason it went viral when it was originally released in 2017 was its portability.
Nintendo chose a different path during a period when its main competitors, the Play Station and Xbox, were creating stationary consoles with ever-impressive graphics and processing power.
The portable Switch could be carried about in a bag and used as a portable game system when watching television.
Despite having substantially worse graphics performance than its competitors from Sony (SONY) and Microsoft (MSFT), Nintendo’s wide selection of enjoyable and frequently family-friendly games made up for this shortcoming in the eyes of the public.