Nintendo has put a prevent to rumours about its new {hardware}, whether or not it is the long-rumoured Transfer Professional or differently, through mentioning {that a} Transfer successor may not be launched till April 2024 on the earliest.
As reported through Bloomberg, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa defined all through an buyers presentation that it is not taking into consideration new {hardware} within the 2023/24 monetary 12 months. Which means that Nintendo’s subsequent house console may not be launched till past due April 2024 on the earliest.
This comes regardless of a decline in Transfer gross sales. The console sold close to 18 million units in the last financial year, down from 23 million offered the 12 months prior to and 28 million the 12 months prior to that. Nintendo is not having a look to hurry a brand new console out to take on this decline even though, because it has forecast every other drop for the approaching 12 months.
“Maintaining the Transfer’s gross sales momentum might be tricky in its 7th 12 months,” stated Furukawa all through the presentation. “Our purpose of promoting 15 million devices this fiscal 12 months is slightly of a stretch, however we can do our very best to reinforce call for going into the vacation season in order that we will reach the purpose.”
Rumours surrounding a brand new console had been circulating for years, with even analysts unsure if Nintendo was planning to release the Switch 2 (for lack of a higher identify) as early as 2021. The brand new console was once said to offer boosted graphics akin to the PlayStation 4 and its Pro model, however there is not any reliable data in regards to the subsequent piece of Nintendo {hardware} but.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer and performing UK information editor. He’s going to discuss The Witcher all day.
