posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Sucessor console also supports Switch Online subscriptions
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Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa revealed with a post on the official Nintendo X (formerly Twitter) account on Tuesday that games for the Nintendo Switch system will remain playable on Switch’s planned successor. Furukawa added that the Switch Online subscription service will also be available on the successor console.
Nintendo will announce the successor to the Switch console within the company’s current fiscal year, which ends on March 31, 2025.
Brazilian journalist Pedro Henrique Lutti Lippe reported earlier this year in February that the Switch successor will launch in early 2025. After the report, Video Games Chronicle (VGC), Eurogamer, and Bloomberg also cited sources who corroborated that report. Bloomberg said a Nintendo spokesperson said the company has nothing to comment on.
BNN Bloomberg had reported in January that according to analyst Hiroshi Hayase from the technology research and advisory group Omdia, Nintendo would launch a new game console this year with an 8-inch LCD screen. Hayase said at the time the new device would be responsible for a doubling in shipments of “amusement displays” this year.
According to Bloomberg, Sharp stated in May 2023 it was supplying LCD panels to and was working closely with a maker of an upcoming console.
The Game Developers Conference (GDC) released the results of its 12th annual “State of the Game Industry Survey” in January, which surveyed more than 3,000 game developers about their work and about the industry. In the survey 8% of developers stated they are developing for the successor to the Nintendo Switch, and 32% said the successor is the platform that mosts interests them right now.
Nintendo launched the Switch console in March 2017, and has sold 141.32 million units as of May 7 earlier this year.
The Switch surpassed Sony‘s PlayStation 4 and Nintendo‘s Game Boy/Game Boy Color as the third best-selling console of all time as of the end of 2022. It now stands behind only the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo DS.
