Switch era is gradually ending: Nintendo president talks about future

Rumors of the Nintendo Change 2 are all of the months, however how lengthy will the basic Change be supported? Nintendo president has a solution

There may be now hardly anybody who doubts that the Nintendo Change 2 is coming. Even the yr 2024 distills from many rumors – present forecasts assume the second half of the yr, so simply in time for the autumn enterprise 2024, the successor console to Nintendo’s perennial hit may very well be on retailer cabinets.

However what does that imply for the present Nintendo Change? Particularly with Nintendo, nowhere is it written in stone how lengthy an outdated platform will proceed to be supported. The unsuccessful Wii U died virtually instantaneously with the discharge of the Change in 2017, whereas Nintendo’s 3DS handheld was nonetheless getting new video games ten years after launch and in parallel with the Change.

In an interview with Nikkei (picked up by gamesradar), Nintendo’s president Shuntaro Furukawa now talks in regards to the Nintendo Change’s long- and medium-term assist for the primary time. Thus, he attests that the present Change will in any case nonetheless be supported at full throttle through the fiscal yr. The present fiscal yr ends in March 2024.

This may overlap with the rumor that the Change 2 shall be launched within the first half of 2024 in any case, nonetheless it could be very curious if the console was already launched in 5 months and we haven’t heard something about it but.

Inversely, Furukawa-san additionally talks in the identical interview about new Change video games nonetheless being deliberate till spring 2025. We expect this time-frame is more likely. If the rumors had been confirmed, then the Change 2 can be launched within the fall of 2024, whereas the present productions for the then outdated Change would step by step come to an finish within the first half of 2025.

On the similar time, the primary Change ought to nonetheless be supported for fairly some time past that with an up to date on-line retailer and firmware updates. From expertise, Nintendo exhibits endurance right here – even the Wii U’s on-line options had been solely lately taken offline.