Nintendo says Switch successor will be unveiled by March 2025

The handheld Switch could beryllium utilized some arsenic a console for a tv astatine home, and besides beryllium thrown into a container and played connected the go.

HONG KONG -- Nintendo says it plans to denote the follow-up to its fashionable Switch console by March 2025.

"We volition marque an announcement astir the successor to Nintendo Switch wrong this fiscal year," Shuntaro Furukawa, the company's president, wrote connected X connected Tuesday. "It volition person been implicit 9 years since we announced the beingness of Nintendo Switch backmost successful March 2015."

The announcement volition beryllium invited quality to fans who person been salivating for years implicit the imaginable of a imaginable Switch successor, which Nintendo bosses person remained tight-lipped about.

Sales person been flagging recently. The institution expects to merchantability 13.5 cardinal Switch units successful the existent fiscal year, according to Reuters, compared to income of 15.7 cardinal units past year.

Nintendo has a agelong and storied way grounds of reinventing the instrumentality for some consoles and games, and the Switch has been 1 of its astir palmy products to date. When it archetypal launched successful 2017, it took the satellite by tempest chiefly for its portability.

At a clip erstwhile large rivals similar Playstation and Xbox were processing stationary consoles with progressively awesome graphics and processing power, Nintendo opted for different route.

The handheld Switch could beryllium utilized some arsenic a console for a tv astatine home, and besides beryllium thrown into a container and played connected the move.

While its graphic show was overmuch little than its Sony (SONY) and Microsoft (MSFT) rivals, consumers didn't caput acknowledgment to the plethora of entertaining and often family-friendly games successful Nintendo's stable.

Over the past 7 years, small has changed successful presumption of the Switch's improvement with 3 chiseled models presently disposable for prospective owners.

There's the Nintendo Switch OLED and its rich, immersive screen; the modular Nintendo Switch with its tried-and-true hybrid design; and the cheaper and smaller Nintendo Switch Lite for those who chiefly play connected the go.