Nintendo: No new Switch hardware in 2023

Don’t expect new Nintendo Switch hardware any time this year, if comments from Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa are anything to go by. According to the latest earnings report, published on Tuesday by Nintendo, it does not plan for new hardware in its forecast that extends out until March 31st 2024. In other words, if you were holding out for a Switch 2, you’ll likely have to hold out a little longer.

Instead, Nintendo said it plans invigorate Switch sales “by supplementing existing titles with a continuous stream of new titles and add-on content.” Nintendo’s currently confirmed lineup includes this week’s release of Tears of the Kingdom – The Legend of Zelda, Pikmin 4,The July issue of the magazine and a couple of additions for Pokémon ScarletThe following are some examples of how to get started: VioletYou can call them Area Zero: The Secret TreasureLaunching this Fall. Metroid Prime 4The release date is not announced.

“Sustaining the Switch’s sales momentum will be difficult in its seventh year,” Furukawa said on an investor call, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. “Our goal of selling 15 million units this fiscal year is a bit of stretch. But we will do our best to bolster demand going into the holiday season so that we can achieve the goal.”

Nintendo’s Switch platform turned six years old in March. Since 2017, the company released the Switch Lite, a handheld version of the Switch. It also launched the Nintendo Switch with OLED. Nikkei Asia reports that Nintendo may have a successor in the pipeline. Citing a source close to Nintendo, Nikkei Asia reported that “development seems to be progressing well” on a Switch follow-up, but that “product launch won’t happen before next spring at the earliest.”

According to Nintendo’s latest sales figures, the company has sold 125.62 million Switch units as of March 31, with more than 1 billion Switch games sold to date.