Nintendo has announced that they plan to support the Nintendo Switch console, on the hardware side, till at least March of 2024, They also stated that the console will continue to receive new games until March 2025.
This information comes from a recent interview with Nikkei, in which Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa was asked about the company’s plans for the successor of their popular Nintendo Switch console. Furukawa held back from giving anything major away but confirmed plans to support the Switch till the end of this fiscal year, which will end in March of 2024. Furukawa stated that Nintendo is focused on maximizing sales on the platform, at least until that point.
This represents only the next five months of business for Nintendo, being a clearly short-term discussion for the system, given that despite all the rumors and discussions no follow-up platform has been announced yet. While it is becoming more and more likely that the Switch 2 (actual name pending) will be released next year it remains to be seen how much support the Switch itself will receive past March.
At another point in this interview with Nikkei, Furukawa stated that the Switch would continue to see games past that point, illustrating plans to release titles at least till the end of their next fiscal year. This isn’t actually new information as the last Nintendo Direct offered looks at games expected to release late in 2024, such as Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door HD to name a few.
Current rumored plans for the Switch 2 launch place the console releasing in the later part of 2024. This fits with Furukawa’s statements, though it remains to be seen if the Switch will be updated or improved past March 2024. Similarly, whether Nintendo will release their games multi-generationally once the next platform launches is also a mystery at this point.
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