Nintendo Announces Plans for Switch Successor in 2025
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The Kyoto-based gaming giant expects to sell 13.5 million Switch units in the current financial year, aiming to maximize sales of the aging device. However, Nintendo remained tight-lipped about the new hardware, confirming that no details would be revealed at their upcoming Nintendo Direct presentation in June.
Industry experts anticipate that many users will postpone purchasing the current Switch in anticipation of the new model's release in 2025. Nintendo sold 15.7 million units of the Switch in 2023, a hybrid console that launched in March 2017. The company has since upgraded the device with an OLED model, which has seen consistent year-on-year sales growth.
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Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa acknowledged the evolving gaming landscape, stating that game development has become increasingly sophisticated, long-term, and complex. Despite this, the company expects operating profit to fall by around a quarter to 400 billion yen ($2.6 billion) this year.
While Nintendo's stock price rose 2.4% ahead of earnings and is up 5.4% this year, industry experts believe a 2026 launch window for the new hardware is quite late.