Nintendo’s president says it will continue to support Switch next year

[John Elden Ring]

Nintendo‘s president says the Switch will continue to see new software in the next fiscal year.

In a new interview with Nikkei, Shuntaro Furukawa was asked if the lifecycle of the Switch could be expanded further than the six and a half years it’s already been on sale.

“We are still working on software for the Switch for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2025,”

Furukawa said.

“In the fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, we hope to sustain the momentum of Zelda and the [Super Mario Bros] movie, with focus on the holiday sales season. As for hardware, we will maximize not only new demand for the hardware, but also for those buying second consoles and replacements.”

Furukawa replied that Nintendo would continue to focus on the Switch until the end of the current fiscal year ending March 2024, and would continue to support the console with software in the following fiscal year ending March 2025.

 

[Kokoloko]

Man, they better not start with the cross gen crap too

 

[AllBizness]

Cross gen coming right up

 

[toadsage44]

If it's a simple game that began development on Switch and later changed development to also focus on their next console, I don't see the problem with cross-gen. However, I hope, at the very least, their next console is backward compatible with the Switch. If it's not, I likely won't be getting it. Knowing Nintendo and their track record as of late, I feel like backward compatibility is too consumer friendly for them, sadly.

 

[Snes nes]

So I’m wondering if those rumors were false. Maybe that console we were hearing rumors about was the Saturn mini.

 

[Zzero]

Are any of you seriously surprised? 3DS kept first party/Nintendo published support until 2019.

 

[Eternal_Wings]

From an economically view, Nintendo would be nuts not to develop cross-gen. Switch user-base is over 129 million consoles. Sales will be bigger on Switch than Switch 2 first years.

 

[ToTTenTranz]

To put things into perspective, if the Switch 2 releases Fall 2024 this means they'll provide 6 months of new cross-gen games.
That's about 1/5th of how long it took Sony to drop the PS4 from first party games.

 

[KiryuRealty]

Also Nintendo's president "Fuck these morons, they'll pay whatever we ask for whatever we shovel out!"

 

[Snes nes]

Also Nintendo's president "Fuck these morons, they'll pay whatever we ask for whatever we shovel out!"

Im ready for it. Charge me 30 more for GameCube games. And another for online.

 

[anonpuffs]

Gonna be funny af and on-brand if they start selling crossgen games but there's no crossbuy/upgrade path to switch 2 so if you want the game on both you're gonna have to pay twice