Finally, Nintendo has acknowledged the obvious: It’s time to switch things up. The Kyoto firm has been typically coy about what would come after the Switch, which will likely go down as its best-selling console of all time. Until this week, it hadn’t so much as admitted that a successor was coming.
Even on Tuesday, in a social media post released alongside earnings, the company [recognized](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-07/nintendo-braces-for-profit-decline-while-users-await-next-switch) the upcoming new machine in only the vaguest possible terms. “We will make an announcement about the successor to Nintendo Switch within this fiscal year,” President Shuntaro Furukawa said, which gives the company until the end of March 2025 to provide details.
The Mario-maker’s next step needs to be quite atypical and find a way to follow one success with another. That’s something it has struggled with in the past.
Dinosaucers_ on
The Wii U was great.
iamfilms on
Pffttt. Since when as Nintendo really shit the bed? Ever? I’ve enjoyed every dang console. Because they’ve always given quality games alongside them. Until they have a couple duds in a row. I ain’t worried.
clit_or_us on
I really hope they fix the joystick drift. Not only on the joy cons, but even their standard controllers suffer from it. Would also like a bigger screen. My old eyes can’t see well in handheld mode so I almost exclusively play docked.
DoTheRustle on
Bloomberg editors, the most qualified opinion havers for what successful century old corporations should do next!
xpoisonedheartx on
Bring back something like streetpass and charming things like pictochat.
jman7784 on
Since their stock split in late 2022, they picked up a lot of investors. They are in a lot of pressure from investors to not veer off the switch path. It’s clear they are going to play this safe. Nintendo is a very conservative company that is willing to make crazy risks. However they are sitting on over $13bn in cash and no debt, they can definately afford a misstep at the sake of innovation
Rinku588 on
My biggest fear is that Nintendo is gonna do the the thing that happens every goddamn time one of the big dogs has a successful system. Ie they shit the bed with the follow-up thinking that everyone will just blindly follow them since they liked the last big thing.
Examples:
Wii was a smash hit, Wii U was a flop
PS2, ungodly numbers, PS3 took years to right the ship
360 was a hit despite rough early and a bad end, Xbox One is still the bit of the joke.
PS4 won the generation, PS5 is a withered mess with Sony doing it no favors.
What I’m saying is I don’t trust how Nintendo will handle whatever comes next because the precedent is set
PrincassyEvie9AfriGa on
Where is that doggone Shrek Image. Barely been Five Minutes annnd here they be.
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Finally, Nintendo has acknowledged the obvious: It’s time to switch things up. The Kyoto firm has been typically coy about what would come after the Switch, which will likely go down as its best-selling console of all time. Until this week, it hadn’t so much as admitted that a successor was coming.
Even on Tuesday, in a social media post released alongside earnings, the company [recognized](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-07/nintendo-braces-for-profit-decline-while-users-await-next-switch) the upcoming new machine in only the vaguest possible terms. “We will make an announcement about the successor to Nintendo Switch within this fiscal year,” President Shuntaro Furukawa said, which gives the company until the end of March 2025 to provide details.
The Mario-maker’s next step needs to be quite atypical and find a way to follow one success with another. That’s something it has struggled with in the past.
The Wii U was great.
Pffttt. Since when as Nintendo really shit the bed? Ever? I’ve enjoyed every dang console. Because they’ve always given quality games alongside them. Until they have a couple duds in a row. I ain’t worried.
I really hope they fix the joystick drift. Not only on the joy cons, but even their standard controllers suffer from it. Would also like a bigger screen. My old eyes can’t see well in handheld mode so I almost exclusively play docked.
Bloomberg editors, the most qualified opinion havers for what successful century old corporations should do next!
Bring back something like streetpass and charming things like pictochat.
Since their stock split in late 2022, they picked up a lot of investors. They are in a lot of pressure from investors to not veer off the switch path. It’s clear they are going to play this safe. Nintendo is a very conservative company that is willing to make crazy risks. However they are sitting on over $13bn in cash and no debt, they can definately afford a misstep at the sake of innovation
My biggest fear is that Nintendo is gonna do the the thing that happens every goddamn time one of the big dogs has a successful system. Ie they shit the bed with the follow-up thinking that everyone will just blindly follow them since they liked the last big thing.
Examples:
Wii was a smash hit, Wii U was a flop
PS2, ungodly numbers, PS3 took years to right the ship
360 was a hit despite rough early and a bad end, Xbox One is still the bit of the joke.
PS4 won the generation, PS5 is a withered mess with Sony doing it no favors.
What I’m saying is I don’t trust how Nintendo will handle whatever comes next because the precedent is set
Where is that doggone Shrek Image. Barely been Five Minutes annnd here they be.