Nintendo confirms it will announce its next console ‘this year’

Nintendo has confirmed it will announce its next-generation console during its current fiscal year, ending March 2025.

In a statement published alongside its financial results, president Shuntaro Furukawa said the company would also hold a Nintendo Direct this June, but claimed it would not include information on the new console.

“This is Furukawa, President of Nintendo. We will make an announcement about the successor to Nintendo Switch within this fiscal year,” he said.

“It will have been over nine years since we announced the existence of Nintendo Switch back in March 2015. We will be holding a Nintendo Direct this June regarding the Nintendo Switch software lineup for the latter half of 2024, but please be aware that there will be no mention of the Nintendo Switch successor during that presentation.”

In its financial results for the year ended March 2024 published today, Nintendo confirmed it had sold 15.7 million Switch consoles – just beating its forecast of 15.5 million – for a total of 141.32 million to date.

The company projected consoles sales would fall 14% to 13.5m for the current fiscal year, ending March 2025.

If Switch hits those sales targets, it will be close to beating Nintendo DS (154m) and PlayStation 2 (~160m) as the best-selling console in history.

In a typical statement covering its forecast for the fiscal year ahead (ending March 2025), Nintendo said it would continue to “convey the appeal of Nintendo Switch” and “continually release new offerings” so consumers keep using the console.

Switch is now in its seventh year on the market, and the expectation is that Nintendo will launch a successor console early next year.

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