Is There A Swap 2? Not This 12 months, Nintendo Says

Followers anticipating a successor to the Swap should wait a bit longer. Nintendo confirmed that no Swap 2 or Swap Professional is predicted within the coming months throughout its newest earnings name. 2024 may lastly be the yr we see what new console the corporate’s been engaged on, however within the meantime gamers should put up with the present, getting old {hardware}.

Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa instructed traders on a name Tuesday that no new Swap or revised variations just like the Swap Lite and OLED mannequin had been factored into the 2023 fiscal outlook, Bloomberg stories. Whereas that doesn’t totally preclude the corporate from surprise-launching one thing, or starting to tease it later within the yr, it actually makes any imminent launch of a extra highly effective Swap console unlikely.

This would be the third yr in a row now that gamers have been ready for Nintendo to announce a extra highly effective handheld hybrid. Different firms aren’t ready for the famed writer to make the subsequent transfer both. Valve launched its personal Steam Deck PC gaming handheld and Asus is now getting ready to compete with the ROG Ally, an expensive machine that however guarantees highly effective specs. Then once more, none of these have The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

The information comes amid a slowdown in total Swap gross sales because the {hardware} enters its seventh yr. The corporate introduced it offered 18 million models final yr, practically 1 / 4 lower than in 2021 and under its objective of 21 million. Furukawa stated the corporate’s objective within the meantime is to promote extra Switches to individuals who already personal them. “We attempt to not solely put one system in each dwelling, however a number of in each dwelling, and even one for each individual,” he stated within the newest earnings assertion.

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A method it’s been doing that’s by releasing special-edition Switches pegged to main launches like Pokémon Scarlet and Violet and now Tears of the Kingdom. Nintendo stated it additionally goals to proceed rising the gross sales of older video games. Notably, Tremendous Mario Bros. U Deluxe offered one other 2 million copies final yr, edging Pokémon Let’s Go Pikachu and Eevee out of the Swap’s prime 10 best-selling video games checklist. An enormous Mario Day sale and the billion-dollar field workplace success of the Mario Film in all probability helped with that.

Whereas Tears of the Kingdom is true across the nook, Pikmin 4 is at present Nintendo’s solely main introduced launch for the second half of the yr. The one different scheduled drops up to now are Scarlet and Violet’s Space Zero enlargement and extra Mario Kart 8 Deluxe DLC. Metroid Prime 4 remains to be TBD and Nintendo has but to tease any different large blockbusters within the pipeline, although I’m positive they’re there. A brand new Tremendous Mario sport lastly, maybe? It’s been virtually six years for the reason that final one.

Or possibly Nintendo will put it aside for at any time when it’s lastly able to reveal no matter console is coming after the Swap.