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Switch 2 Will Be Unaffected by Chip Shortages, Nintendo Won’t Commit to a FY2025 Release
09.05.2024 - 16:45 / wccftech.com / Shuntaro Furukawa / Nathan Birch / Nintendo / Will
After endless speculation, Nintendo finally said something concrete about their plans for a Switch successor as part of their most recent earnings report, promising to announce the Switch 2 (or whatever it ends up being called) sometime during this fiscal year, which extends until the end of March, 2025. There are rumors that the Switch 2 will be unveiled this Fall and release in March of 2025, but nothing has been confirmed by Nintendo themselves.
That said, during an earnings Q&A Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa did provide a few more tidbits about their Switch successor plans (thanks to GamesIndustry.biz for the translations here). Per Furukawa, their current sales forecasts do not include the “Nintendo Switch successor device.” Now, that doesn’t necessarily mean the Switch 2 is not coming out this fiscal year, but it does mean Nintendo is unable or unwilling to commit to releasing before the end of March 2025 at this time. All they’re promising for now is that they plan to sell another 13.5 million Switch units in FY2025, a fairly lofty goal considering the age of the device. Selling another 13.5 million units would mean Nintendo would surpass the sales of the Nintendo DS (154 million sold) and possibly even the PlayStation 2 (155 million sold).
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While Nintendo is being maddeningly evasive about the launch timing of the Switch 2, they did assure investors that supply issues related to shortages of chips or other components shouldn’t be a problem…
"As for supply of the Nintendo Switch successor console... at this point we are not seeing semiconductor supply issues like the ones that were happening until the year before last, and we do not anticipate that semiconductor supply will present a major problem for the launch of the console.”
While not exactly a shock, Furukawa also confirmed there will still be an emphasis on offering physical games for Switch 2, dispelling any speculation Nintendo might go digital-only.
What are your thoughts on all of this? Do you think we can expect the Switch 2 to arrive sometime during Nintendo’s current fiscal year? Or might we be left waiting even longer?
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