Regardless of all of the rumours, Nintendo has insisted they don’t have any plans to launch a brand new console this 12 months and even early subsequent 12 months.
Though most issues within the video games business leak out lengthy earlier than they’re formally introduced the one factor each fan learns is to not imagine Nintendo rumours, regardless of how good the supply or how believable the logic.
Given they don’t appear to have any main video games deliberate for launch after July it was completely affordable to think about that Nintendo was planning a brand new console for launch this Christmas, with a number of rumours suggesting precisely that.
Nonetheless, Nintendo themselves have now insisted that’s not the case and that they gained’t launch any new {hardware} this monetary 12 months, which doesn’t finish till after March 2024.
Though Nintendo might be economical with the reality generally, they mentioned this throughout an earnings name for his or her newest monetary report, which they’re not allowed to lie in.
Particulars of the report leaked out early, with right now’s official launch confirming that gross sales are down 22% on this time final 12 months. Usually, that will be all the rationale they should launch a brand new console and but apparently that isn’t what’s occurring.
The ultimate figures present that the Swap simply missed (at 17.97 million) its full 12 months goal of 18 million gross sales, regardless of already decreasing it from 21 million earlier within the 12 months.
Its goal for subsequent 12 months is 15 million gross sales, however Nintendo has already admittedly it most likely gained’t make that, with president Shuntaro Furukawa saying it was ‘a little bit of stretch.’
It actually appears that method, given not solely the console’s age however the truth that Nintendo doesn’t have any video games introduced for this Christmas, simply Pokémon Scarlet and Violet DLC.
All of that appears so as to add as much as a brand new console however, in accordance with Bloomberg, throughout a subsequent earnings name Furukawa mentioned that subsequent 12 months’s forecast doesn’t embrace any new or upgraded {hardware}.
That appears to depart a little bit little bit of wriggle room for a shock reveal, however way more possible is that Nintendo is solely telling the reality and that at any time when the Swap 2 arrives it gained’t be till a minimum of this time subsequent 12 months.
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