In essentially the most anticlimactic approach attainable, Nintendo on Tuesday confirmed years of rumors: The Nintendo Swap 2 console is on the way in which.
“We’ll make an announcement concerning the successor to Nintendo Swap inside this fiscal 12 months,” wrote Shuntaro Furukawa, the president of Nintendo, on X.
This wasn’t the precise announcement of the console, thoughts. Slightly, Furukawa needed to warn customers to not count on the precise announcement in subsequent month’s Nintendo Direct livestream.
“We might be holding a Nintendo Direct this June relating to the Nintendo Swap software program lineup for the latter half of 2024, however please remember that there might be no point out of the Nintendo Swap successor throughout that presentation,” the put up reads.
Nintendo’s fiscal 12 months ends in March, which implies we’d have to attend till Spring 2025 to study what’s subsequent for the Swap, launched 9 years in the past.
Launched in 2015, the Nintendo Swap was a convincing success for the Japanese gaming firm. Thus far, Nintendo has offered over 141 million items, making the Swap the third-best-selling console of all time, trailing solely behind the Nintendo DS and the PlayStation 2.
The Swap turned so common as a result of it was the primary commercially profitable gaming {hardware} that might be performed each as a handheld system and as a desktop console related to an exterior show. The coincidental launch of “Animal Crossing: New Horizons” originally of world coronavirus lockdowns was additionally a boon for Nintendo. Between March and November 2020, Nintendo offered 12 million Swap consoles, which was a 73% improve in comparison with the identical interval a 12 months earlier. The corporate even needed to revise its monetary forecast that 12 months to be 50% greater than anticipated.
Nintendo’s sly announcement accompanied its quarterly earnings report. The corporate’s {hardware} gross sales declined 12.6% year-over-year, as is pure when its flagship console has been accessible for practically a decade. Nonetheless, the Swap stays massively common, because of blockbuster unique titles like “The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,” the long-awaited sequel to the basic “Breath of the Wild.”
“Tears of the Kingdom” has offered 20.6 million copies over the past 12 months, whereas “Tremendous Mario Bros. Surprise” offered 13.44 million copies. Indie builders proceed to push out video games for the Swap, which gamers can obtain by way of the Nintendo eShop. That, and the truth that Nintendo has made it attainable for customers to play its older consoles’ video games on the Swap, has stored the console feeling contemporary even after 9 years.
So, what is going to come first: the Nintendo Swap 2 or Silksong?
