Nintendo plans to announce its successor to its Nintendo Switch gaming console within the next 10 months before the end of March 2025, the company’s president said Tuesday.”We will make an announcement about the successor to Nintendo Switch within this fiscal year. It will have been over nine years since we announced the existence of Nintendo Switch back in March 2015,” Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa said on X, also known as Twitter. In Japan, the current fiscal year ends March 31, 2025.Furukawa added that the next Nintendo Direct announcement event will be next month, but the Switch successor won’t be mentioned during that virtual event. In recent years, Nintendo has held its general Direct events three times a year in February, June, and September, however, so it’s possible the Switch hardware sequel could be announced at its Direct event this fall. Nintendo does sometimes hold additional Direct events for specific standalone products, however, like its August 2023 presentation for the game Super Mario Bros. Wonder.
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Despite news of a fresh console on the horizon, Nintendo still predicts it will sell 13.5 million Switch consoles this fiscal year, a 14% decline from the 15.7 million Switch consoles it sold in the prior fiscal year. The company has sold over 141 million Switch consoles to date, according to Nintendo’s data, making it the firm’s best-selling console of all time.
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While the Switch sequel could be unveiled sometime this year or during a possible February 2025 Direct event, that doesn’t mean it will necessarily become available for purchase right after it’s announced. The original Switch was first announced in March 2015, but didn’t release until two years later in March 2017.
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