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 this June regarding the Nintendo Switch software lineup for the latter half of 2024, but please be aware that there will be no mention of the Nintendo Switch successor during that presentation.
Seems kind of strange to announce this way I wonder if they’re expecting a big leak to come out so they’re getting ahead of it? Otherwise, why not just mention at the end of that June direct that you’ll talk more about this in the coming months
Nintendo just released their earning reports, and Switch only sold 1.96Million in last months (Jan - March), so maybe they announced it to let the shareholders know that next one is coming soon.
I like they’re setting the right expectations for the June direct.
Ah the announcement of the future announcement.
The articles that came out every few months for the last few years saying the Switch 2 is coming out soon were right!
I genuinely think a Switch Pro was shelved due to the chip shortage, and the OLED model was a replacement.
Nintendo has cancelled all convention and events appearances for the year such as PAX and Gamescom. If they had anything to show off it would be during those two events. With everything cancelled I think they are going the route for the late year announcement like they did with the Switch which was revealed in October 2016 and released in March.
I predict we won’t hear anything until September/October.
