Nintendo revealed its latest earnings yesterday which prompted President Shuntaro Furukawa to once again reiterate that the Nintendo Switch successor will be announced before the end of the fiscal year which ends on March 31st, 2025.
As Nintendo Switch sales fall short of expectations leading to a share price decline, Analyst Hideki Yasuda has said in an interview with Reuters that Nintendo looks unlikely to announce the Nintendo Switch before the Holiday season as it looks to boost Switch sales in-line with expectations.
“Making an announcement this year has gotten quite difficult… You would not want to divert attention to an upcoming console in the middle of the critical year-end shopping season” Yasuda said.
Almost perfectly timed with me writing this article, Nintendo Australia announced that it is releasing a Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Nintendo Switch OLED bundle on November 29th, just in-time for the busy shopping period. This comes following the news that Mario Kart 8 Deluxe sold another two million copies in the last sales period, which is just insane, and no doubt this will do well as it’s the first time Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has been bundled with the OLED model.
This #NintendoSwitch bundle, including #MarioKart 8 Deluxe and 12 months of #NintendoSwitchOnline, launches on 29th November!
Look for this bundle on My Nintendo Store and at select retailers in Australia & New Zealand. pic.twitter.com/3mqJYUSAnD
— Nintendo AU NZ (@NintendoAUNZ) November 6, 2024
Even if there’s no announcement before the end of the year, it still feels like we’re closer than ever to a Nintendo Switch 2 reveal, with it being only a few months away at the latest.
