Everyone knows {that a} Nintendo Swap 2 announcement shall be coming any day now, however assist for the present Swap continues to be deliberate for a short while.
There’s two issues I do know to be true in life: water is moist, and the Swap 2 (or no matter it is known as) will launch in 2024. Nintendo’s most up-to-date pair of Directs ought to inform you that simply sufficient, however there’s additionally the varied rumours doing the rounds concerning the followup console. This in fact leaves the query, what is going to occur to the present Swap? In accordance with Nintendo’s president, Shuntaro Furukawa, in an interview with Nikkei (translations by VGC), we’ll nonetheless see new video games coming to the Swap proper by to March 2025.
In accordance with Furukawa, Nintendo plans to give attention to the Swap till the tip of March 2024, i.e. the tip of Nintendo’s fiscal 12 months. After that, the console will nonetheless obtain new video games till the tip of the following fiscal 12 months, once more in March, 2025. “We’re nonetheless engaged on software program for the Swap for the fiscal 12 months ending March 31, 2025,” Furukawa stated. “Within the fiscal 12 months ending March 31, 2024, we hope to maintain the momentum of Zelda and the [Super Mario Bros] film, with give attention to the vacation gross sales season. As for {hardware}, we’ll maximise not solely new demand for the {hardware}, but additionally for these shopping for second consoles and replacements.”
The Swap undoubtedly does nonetheless have some life in it but in terms of first celebration titles. This month will see the arrival of Tremendous Mario Bros. Surprise, the newest entry within the side-scrolling Mario collection, and subsequent March we’ll lastly have a brand new Princess Peach recreation within the type of Princess Peach Showtime. Plus, there’s that Luigi’s Mansion 2HD port due out a while in 2024, in addition to the Paper Mario: The Thousand 12 months Door remake that has many followers excited.