Seems like there is still more life in switch. Q1 2025 switch 2 lunch then.
That's not what it means though. A new console takes time to be profitable, that's why Sony and MS have released most of their games on last gen consoles for a few years.
by that logic wasn't the wiiu the main business its lunched when Wii was still on the market and also wasn't the same thing with the switch as well when wiiu also there. Its still remain to be seen what Nintendo do from here on the based on past experiences.
That's not what it means at all. Of course the current Switch is their main business in 2024. They have sold over 130m of them, they have multiple Switch titles scheduled and a successor wouldn't be launching until the very end of 2024. The current Switch will obviously make the most revenue and profit this year.
Well the quote "The existing Switch will be Nintendo’s “main business” heading into 2024" isn't clear if they are talking about the Fiscal Year or not, but now you mention it Fiscal Year in this case is probably the only thing that makes sense. Regardless that Switch would be their main business this coming fiscal year does not mean their next console will not launch.
We have 3 Switch's in our house (original + 2 lights) and its great don't get me wrong but I just can't get into it, the kids love them though (or did, they are mostly playing PS5/Xbox now)
The Wii U was such a disaster they had already stopped developing for it when the Switch came out. The Switch is one of the best selling consoles of all times. Not really comparable.
what of Nintendo Wii then?
Well that changed with the switch. we are still getting news releases 7yrs in the console life. So...Nintendo always says how they have big plans for their old consoles/handhelds with lots of support etc (usually near the end of their fiscal years which end in March) and then shortly after announce a new console/handheld and drop support for the old one quickly.
Its a ...
Yes. Here's a quote from Nintendo America in 2012 - "We sold 4 million new Wiis last year, and we think Wii still has a lot of life left in it. There’s a lot of parts of the expanded audience that still haven’t purchased one, and with the price becoming more and more accessible we think there’s a lot of runway ahead for the Wii."
ok i understand what you are saying, People are saying this year is dry in term of releases but they forgot that last year by this time was the same as we didnt know how many games were coming that year. i guess we will see in the upcoming direct.
What about it? It still was Nintendo's main business in 2013 when the Wii U was released, although its sales were stagnating by then.
It’s the same every single year. It’s so frustrating that people forget and have such short memories. We never know Nintendo’s full year lineup until they announce it early in the year and then further fill it in over the summer with the big holiday game(s).
I get that they say these sort of dumb things for the sake of their board of directors but to me it just looks like a lack of confidence in their product if they have to preemptively reassure themselves and/or their audience that things will be fine even if their next system doesn't immediately do well.
The best handheld I have every owned is the PSP and no-one can change my mind on that
(I imported one from Japan, was one of the first in the UK to have one, ah the memories)
And they did indeed continue producing the 3DS and publishing games for it for a couple of years after the Switch launched.
I guess the main question here would be what sort of "main business" are they talking about here.
I think they mean main business as in the Switch 2 won't be out until the end of the year, and it's userbase will so low that the majority of their revenue in 2024 will still come from Switch.
Perhaps you are right and I'm reading too much into this I guess we will have to wait and see for now.
It won't. Nintendo always talk like this even when new hardware is imminent. They did the same with 3DS and Switch.
Yep. And to be fair, 3DS received first-party exclusives up into 2019, 2 years after Switch launched. They always, always do this.
I think it depends on the game.
Cross-gen periods becoming longer and longer will just continue and get worse, unfortunately, if it’s something you don’t care for because Console generations as we know them are breaking down because they’re not customer friendly to begin with. The vast majority people don’t understand what a console generation is anyway, outside of the hard-core. And game engines themselves are becoming so scalable that games that are in development right now for the most part are not made with only one or two Console specs in mind.
