Nintendo has teased avid gamers over the Swap successor’s launch date – however followers could have to attend greater than a 12 months earlier than attempting the brand new console out.
The Japanese gaming large‘s Swap console – which may be performed on a transportable handset or on a TV display – was first launched in 2017.
Hypothesis has grown in current months over the discharge date for the console’s subsequent technology, which is believed to be known as Swap 2.
However in its monetary outcomes revealed on Tuesday, the Kyoto-based firm mentioned it should make an announcement earlier than March 2025 – the top of the present monetary 12 months.
Nintendo gave no particulars in regards to the announcement, together with whether or not it could launch the successor earlier than March subsequent 12 months or simply reveal its plans for it.
“Numerous customers will now maintain off shopping for the present Swap as they know that the brand new mannequin will come out a while in 2025,” mentioned Serkan Toto, founding father of the Kantan Video games consultancy.
Regardless of the scant element over the Swap’s launch date, a number of the successor’s new options are already circulating within the gaming world’s hearsay mill.
Spanish gaming information web site Vandal reported final month the successor will probably be bigger, however not as huge as rival console Steam Deck.
The Swap’s distinctive controllers – which may detach from the console to type a brand new management to play over a TV display – will reportedly lock onto the handset magnetically, as an alternative of sliding into rails.
The distinctive Nintendo Swap controller. Pic: Reuters
Vandal additionally provides producers consider video games for the present Swap will probably be playable on the brand new model.
Nintendo has bought 141 million Swap machines worldwide, making it the third highest promoting console ever.
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Whereas the console has been on cabinets since 2017, Nintendo launched a smaller model in 2019 earlier than launching its OLED mannequin – with a higher-end display – in October 2021.
And after the success of the new The Legend of Zelda sport final 12 months, Nintendo will launch Paper Mario: The Thousand-12 months Door later this month and Luigi’s Mansion 2 in June.
The Legend of Zelda has been a success for Nintendo. Pic: Nintendo
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“The event of video games has turn into extra refined, long run and complicated,” Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa mentioned when requested how the market has modified for the reason that Swap launched.
