Shuntaro Furukawa, CEO of Nintendo, has announced that the successor to the Switch will be announced 'this financial year'. This means that the console will be announced in March 2025 at the latest.
Furukawa announced the news on X. The presentation of the console will take place later this financial year. It is the first time that Nintendo has confirmed that it is working on a successor to the Switch. Nintendo's fiscal year runs from April 1, 2024 to March 31, 2025. The Nintendo CEO announced that the company will hold a Direct event in June. The successor to the Switch will not yet be presented during this event, according to Furukawa. According to previous rumors, the console will be released on the market in early 2025.
This is Furukawa, President of Nintendo. 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. We will be holding a Nintendo Direct…
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