Switch 2 will be released in 2024. According to relevant analysts, Nintendo's next game console is expected to come out at least two years later, and by the end of 2024, the sales volume of switch will surpass that of PS2. Switch 2 will be released in 2024.
Switch 2 will release 1 in 2024. After Nintendo released its annual financial report a few days ago, the analyst firm Ampere predicted that Nintendo's current switch has entered the end of its life and will soon be eliminated. A new generation of game consoles is expected to be released in 2024, with more powerful performance.
Harding-Rolle, an analyst, said that the sales of Switch have inevitably started to decline, and this situation will continue until the release of new game consoles. In 2020, Animal Forest Club became popular all over the world, and the outbreak of other games such as The Adventures of Fitness Ring, together with the global epidemic, promoted the additional growth of Switch sales.
However, after that, Switch still follows the life cycle law of traditional game consoles, showing a downward trend. Its sales volume will drop to another low point in 2023. Even if it is promoted by Breath of the Wild 2 next year, it will be difficult to increase too much, because the product has reached the end of its life. Therefore, Nintendo must launch a new generation of game consoles in 2023 or 2024.
Nintendo President Toshiro Furukawa also talked about plans for a new generation of game consoles. He said, "Now that Switch is so successful, how to successfully transition to the next generation of hardware is the company's main concern." The company plans to establish a "long-term relationship" with users to reduce the upgrade risk of more than 654.38 billion users.
Indeed, the success of each generation of products is difficult to replicate. Even if Nintendo introduces the next generation of more powerful game consoles, there is no guarantee that it will be as popular as Switch. Therefore, Nintendo did not dare to rashly launch new products, only squeezed toothpaste bit by bit, and simply extended the life cycle of Switch to 7 years.
However, the performance of Switch can no longer meet the current market demand, and it is difficult to continue to support more new games in the future. So Nintendo still needs to launch new products. At present, the Switch is equipped with NVIDIA Tegra X 1, and the next generation of products is likely to adopt NVIDIA chips, with stronger GPU performance and support for 4K image quality, which forms a confrontation with Sony PS5.
The cumulative global sales of Switch reached 6.5438+0.076 million units, which was higher than that of Sony PS5, but not as good as that of PS4 (6.5438+0.65438+0.72 million units). However, the sales of Switch games dominated the list all the year round, completely crushing Sony. I hope Nintendo's next-generation games can continue the glory of Switch, continue to bring more exciting and game content to players, and strive to surpass Sony in console sales.
Switch 2 will be released in 2024. Toshiro Furukawa, president of Nintendo, said that the transition from Nintendo Switch to the next generation hardware platform was the company's "main concern".
According to relevant analysis, Nintendo's next game console is expected to come out at least two years later. Ampere also predicted that the next generation of Nintendo game consoles will be released in 2024, and by the end of 2024, the sales of Switch will surpass that of PS2.
In this week's Q&A for Japanese investors, Toshiro Furukawa answered questions about how Nintendo kept a strong pace of game launch six years after the release of Switch and his thoughts on the transition to the next hardware platform. Furukawa Juntaro said that the company plans to reduce the upgrade risk of more than 654.38 billion users by establishing "long-term relationships" with users.
"We have announced some game routes that will be released next spring. Unlike in the past, we have a lot of game plans to release, even more than five years. This is because the launch of Nintendo Switch is very smooth, and we can concentrate all development resources on one platform. "
"However, whether we can smoothly transition from Nintendo Switch to the next generation of hardware is still our main concern. According to our experience with Wii, Nintendo DS and other hardware, it is obvious that one of the main obstacles is how to transition from one hardware to another. "
"To help reduce this risk, we focus on building long-term relationships with our customers. Although we will continue to launch new games on Nintendo Switch, we will use other IP services besides Nintendo account and game software. We intend to do this in order to have a lasting impact on our customers. "
In his speech to investors in February, Toshiro Furukawa talked about the plan of the next generation of game consoles: "At present, there are nearly 654.38 billion game users every year. Looking ahead, it is important to consider how to maintain and expand this figure. This is also crucial when we consider the next generation hardware platform. "
The financial report in March 2022 showed that the sales volume of switch hardware in the last quarter was 23.06 million units, and the cumulative sales volume reached 6.5438+0.076 million units.
S w itch 2 will be released in 2024. Recently, Nintendo released the annual financial report for fiscal year 2002 1-2022, in which the data showed that the sales volume of Switch consoles reached 65.438+0.7 billion units, making it the seventh console in the world with a sales breakthrough of1100 million units.
Today, well-known analyst Piers Harding-Rolls speculated on the follow-up sales of Switch and the release time of Switch 2 according to this financial report.
Piers believes that as a mainframe launched six years ago, the current sales volume of Switch has reached its peak. Even if there is such a heavy new work as The Legend of Zelda: The Breath of the Wilderness 2, it is difficult to avoid the gradual decline in sales volume.
In fact, compared with the sales of 28.83 million units in 20021fiscal year, the sales of 23.06 million switches in fiscal year 2022 did drop by 20%, which proved this speculation.
Combined with the current downward trend of Switch console sales, Nintendo's console iteration law and executive speeches, Piers believes that the new console is expected to be released around 2024.
However, although we call the follow-up model of Switch "Switch 2" at present, Nintendo has not actually decided whether to follow the design of Switch on the new model.
But what is certain is that Nintendo will try its best to reduce the separation between the new host and the Switch, which can be proved by the official statement in the previous investor question and answer.
In this Q&A session, the official said that he would try his best to establish a long-term relationship with users to ensure that more than 1 100 million Swich can smoothly transition to the new host hardware.