In Nintendo’s ‘Company Administration Coverage Briefing’, aligning with their current second quarter fiscal launch, the corporate made a number of key bulletins about their subsequent console. The most important of those is that the Nintendo Change successor will probably be backwards suitable.
In a publish on the social media platform previously often called Twitter, President Furukawa shared the announcement stating:
“At as we speak’s Company Administration Coverage Briefing, we introduced that Nintendo Change software program will even be playable on the successor to Nintendo Change.”
Of their coverage briefing, Nintendo additional elaborates stating that, “customers will be capable of select their subsequent buy from a broad number of titles launched for Nintendo Change.” Whereas stopping in need of promising that each one titles will probably be purchasable on the brand new platform, it does point out that there are plans for buying Change video games on their new console.
Moreover, Furukawa introduced that Nintendo Change On-line will probably be on the Nintendo Change successor, offering even additional backwards compatibility of types. It presumably signifies that the video games on Change On-line by way of emulation will even be obtainable on their subsequent console on this approach.
As we close to the tip of the Change’s lifespan, we are able to anticipate to listen to extra in regards to the Change successor, as it will likely be introduced by the tip of the 2024 fiscal yr, which for Nintendo ends in March 2025. Complementing this we are able to anticipate some celebratory stats in regards to the Change, as its gross sales are declining closely, thus we’re going to see extra lifetime stats, whilst Nintendo is predicting to promote 1m much less Change’s than it predicted initially of the yr.
For instance, Nintendo’s company presentation shared that it has bought all through its lifetime over 1.3 billion items of software program, probably the most ever on a Nintendo console. Yearly, over 100 million individuals are enjoying Nintendo Change, with the final yr having 127m gamers getting on the console at the least as soon as since October 2023, as counted by Nintendo accounts on gadgets.
Nintendo talks some extra about their construction of enterprise in console gaming going ahead, which might help us see a few of what the Nintendo Change successor is perhaps aiming to do. The primary is the point out of merging of handheld and console, making a unified ecosystem for Nintendo titles. This will get three separate slides within the presentation, and with the introduced backwards compatibility appears extraordinarily prefer to proceed.
The second level is a deal with client touchpoints, akin to devoted Nintendo spots in retail (apparently in Japan just for now it seems), and offering extra methods for customers to digitally buy software program. One may see the Nintendo Music App as one other approach of this digital outreach. One other approach is thru free updates and DLC, which will get emphasised, together with as a technique to revitalize titles.
Nintendo Change On-line is one other instance of this, with them sharing there are over 34 million Nintendo Change On-line members as of September thirtieth. Whereas they’ve seen a decline in subscriptions, which they attribute to fewer new releases, they’ve seen extra folks opting to get the costlier Enlargement Pack a part of the service as effectively.
Nintendo is making ready for the longer term with out the Nintendo Change as its primary cash maker, and setting as much as match the opposite main consoles with the supply of backwards compatibility, and in any other case interoperablility between generations. Someday, within the subsequent 5 months, we are able to anticipate Nintendo to lastly exchange that query mark with an precise gadget and title.