Nintendo to announce Change successor earlier than March 2025

Nintendo will unveil a successor to the Change someday “inside this fiscal 12 months” ending March 2025, president Shuntaro Furukawa wrote in a submit on X. That differs barely from studies that the next-gen console could be introduced this 12 months, because it is also revealed early in 2025.

The corporate added that it’ll not launch any particulars on the Change 2 (or no matter it’s going to be known as) at its upcoming Nintendo Direct occasion in June, so we can’t hear something till at the least the second half of 2024.

“It’s going to have been over 9 years since we introduced the existence of Nintendo Change again in March 2015,” Furukawa wrote. “We might be holding a Nintendo Direct this June concerning the Nintendo Change software program lineup for the latter half of 2024, however please remember that there might be no point out of the Nintendo Change successor throughout that presentation.”

Nintendo additionally dropped its earnings report that contained each good and dangerous information. The corporate had already boosted its Change gross sales forecast for the final fiscal 12 months to fifteen.5 million items, nevertheless it bested that determine with 15.7 million items bought for the total 12 months ending March 2024. Whereas down in comparison with the earlier 12 months (17.97 million items), it helped Nintendo develop gross sales and working revenue by 4.4 and 4.9 %, respectively, 12 months over 12 months.

Issues will not be so rosy in fiscal 2025, although, as the corporate initiatives that Change gross sales will drop to 13.5 million items for the 12 months ending in March 2025. That can end in a 19.3 % and 24.4 % drop in web gross sales and working revenue, respectively.

Nintendo has finished job sustaining Change gross sales, contemplating that the console went on sale over seven years in the past. That was helped largely final 12 months by video games together with bestsellers The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Tremendous Mario Bros. Marvel.

Now that Nintendo has given a timeframe for the launch of the brand new console, nevertheless, curiosity in shopping for the present Change is sure to wane. The corporate little question hopes that a number of upcoming titles, together with Paper Mario (Might 23) and Luigi’s Mansion 2 (June 27), will assist juice gross sales.