Nintendo has thrown Change gamers a long-awaited bone alongside asserting its end-of-year financials results, confirming the console’s successor shall be unveiled earlier than April, 2025. Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa mentioned {that a} next-generation Nintendo Change console shall be introduced “inside this fiscal yr” — giving the Japanese gaming big a deadline of March thirty first, 2025. That aligns properly with its present Q1 2025 rumored launch.
Concerning the Change 2 console announcement, Furukawa mentioned:
We are going to make an announcement in regards to the successor to Nintendo Change inside this fiscal yr. It would have been over 9 years since we introduced the existence of Nintendo Change again in March 2015. We shall be holding a Nintendo Direct this June relating to the Nintendo Change software program lineup for the latter half of 2024, however please remember that there shall be no point out of the Nintendo Change successor throughout that presentation.
In the meantime, Nintendo’s forecast indicators an anticipated slowdown in Change console gross sales, projecting to promote 13.5 million Change consoles this yr in comparison with the 15.7 million models bought the earlier fiscal yr. Web revenue through the upcoming yr can be anticipated to fall by 39 %, alongside a projected 19 % fall in income.
Change console gross sales have slipped considerably since their peak in 2021, whereas the OLED model — the latest model of the now near-decade-old console — loved a small 1.1 % bump in gross sales yr over yr. The variety of customers for the platform stays wholesome although, with Nintendo claiming the 123 million annual gamers recorded between April 2023 and March 2024 have been the “highest seen since Nintendo Change was launched.”
Nintendo hasn’t given up on the present technology of Change consoles, nevertheless. In its forecast the corporate mentioned it would “attempt to not solely put one system in each residence, however a number of in each residence, and even one for each individual.”