Kodoani.com – Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa revealed through a post on Nintendo's official Twitter account on Tuesday that the company will announce a successor to the Switch within their current fiscal year, ends March 31, 2025. The post also says the company will host a Nintendo Direct streaming showcase in June, but there's no word on what successor to the Switch platform is planned plan.
Nintendo also announced its latest financial highlights on Tuesday, including the sale of 141.32 million Switch units, along with software sales of 1.23582 billion units.
Brazilian journalist Pedro Henrique Lutti Lippe reported in early February that the Switch's successor will launch in early 2025. Following this information, Video Games Chronicle (VGC), Eurogamer and Bloomberg also cited sources corroborate that report. However, Bloomberg said a Nintendo spokesperson had nothing to comment on.
BNN Bloomberg reported in January that according to analyst Hiroshi Hayase from technology research and advisory group Omdia, Nintendo will launch a new console this year with an 8-inch LCD screen. Hayase said at the time that the new equipment would help double the number of “entertainment screens” this year.
According to Bloomberg, Sharp said in May 2023 that it was supplying LCD screens and was working closely with an upcoming panel manufacturer.
The Game Developers Conference (GDC) released the results of its 12th annual “State of the Game Industry Survey” last month, surveying more than 3,000 game developers about their work. and about the industry. In the survey, 8% of developers said they are working on a successor to the Nintendo Switch, and 32% said the successor is the platform they are most interested in right now.
Nintendo launched the Switch in March 2017. The Switch surpassed Sony's PlayStation 4 and Nintendo's Game Boy/Game Boy Color to become the third best-selling console of all time as of the end of 2022. Currently , it is second only to the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo DS.