Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa shared a number of particulars concerning the Swap successor throughout the firm monetary name.
Furukawa introduced that the Swap successor can be introduced throughout this monetary yr, which ends on March 31, 2025.
That is Furukawa, President of Nintendo. We’ll make an announcement concerning the successor to Nintendo Swap inside this fiscal yr. It’ll have been over 9 years since we introduced the existence of Nintendo Swap again in March 2015. We can be holding a Nintendo Direct…
— 任天堂株式会社(企業広報・IR) (@NintendoCoLtd) Might 7, 2024
The corporate additionally introduced that it will likely be having its Nintendo Direct occasion subsequent month in June, the place the corporate can be showcasing upcoming titles for the Swap platform. Nevertheless, there can be no bulletins concerning the Swap successor throughout this occasion.
This announcement factors in direction of a Q1 2025 announcement window for the brand new console, which traces up with the present rumors. We now have identified since February that Nintendo has been telling sport publishers that its subsequent console can be launched throughout this time interval.
Nevertheless, launch and announcement are two various things, and Nintendo was cautious to make use of the phrase ‘announcement’ in its English tweet. It is attainable that the console can be accessible at a later date after being introduced earlier than April.
The unique Nintendo Swap launched in 2017 with the Nvidia Tegra X1 chip, the identical chip that first appeared within the 2015 Nvidia Pill X1. It featured a novel hybrid design that allowed it for use in transportable mode or plugged into the dock to be used as a house console. The Swap went on to turn out to be wildly profitable, promoting over 141 million models worldwide, making it the third largest promoting console ever made.
The Swap is presently accessible in three fashions, customary, Lite, and OLED.