Nintendo has put a cease to rumours about its new {hardware}, whether or not it is the long-rumoured Change Professional or in any other case, by declaring {that a} Change successor will not be launched till April 2024 on the earliest.
As reported by Bloomberg, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa defined throughout an traders presentation that it is not contemplating new {hardware} within the 2023/24 monetary 12 months. Which means that Nintendo’s subsequent house console will not be launched till late April 2024 on the earliest.
This comes regardless of a decline in Change gross sales. The console offered near 18 million items within the final monetary 12 months, down from 23 million offered the 12 months earlier than and 28 million the 12 months earlier than that. Nintendo is not seeking to rush a brand new console out to sort out this decline although, because it has forecast one other drop for the approaching 12 months.
“Sustaining the Change’s gross sales momentum will likely be tough in its seventh 12 months,” stated Furukawa through the presentation. “Our aim of promoting 15 million items this fiscal 12 months is a little bit of a stretch, however we’ll do our greatest to bolster demand going into the vacation season in order that we will obtain the aim.”
Rumours surrounding a brand new console have been circulating for years, with even analysts not sure if Nintendo was planning to launch the Change 2 (for lack of a greater identify) as early as 2021. The brand new console was stated to supply boosted graphics akin to the PlayStation 4 and its Professional mannequin, however there isn’t a official data relating to the subsequent piece of Nintendo {hardware} but.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer and appearing UK information editor. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.
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