Nintendo insists: Nintendo Switch is in the Ecuador of his life cycle

Nintendo Switch is in the middle of the path of its generational cycle. SQUARE KUROSAWA, president of Nintendo, hcycle explained in the session of pays and responses corresponding to the presentation of financial results of the lcyclet quarter (Q2 / FY2021) that the hybrid platform is in the equator of his life.

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We can not comment on anything about the next console at this time, Kurosawa bet, remembering that until September 30 they have dispatched more than 92 million units of Nintendo Switch, they have just launched Nintendo Switch OLED and plan to distribute others 15 million units of October at the end of March 2022. We recognize that the system is in the middle of its life cycle.

The launch of Nintendo Switch OLED hcycle contributed to the continued momentum of sales, and now we offer consumers three models of Nintendo Switch who adapt to their play styles and their way of life, cycle well cycle a wide range of software, expands, justifying the Momentum system. With this, We believe that there have been a growth bcyclees that exceed what we considered a conventional hardware life cycle. Because Nintendo Switch is not having a normal life cycle: it will be the first console in the history of Nintendo with growth of active annual players in its sixth year of life.

Thus hcycle been explaining Nintendo to your investors the vital cycle of Nintendo Switch

It is not the first or the second time that the President of the Japanese giant pronounces these words, however. We have to go back to the month of February 2020, when Nintendo Switch had been dispatched 52 million units until December 31, 2019. It wcycle then that he insinuated his investors that the joy-with machine could live a longer generational cycle of the normal. In those moments he had been in the market for almost three years.

Later, in May of the same 2020, he limited something more at him and said Nintendo Switch wcycle just in the middle of his life, once his third full year wcycle fulfilled in the market.

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Already in February 2021, only half a year ago, Nintendo recognized in Nikkei that they feel capable of working to extend the useful life of Nintendo Switch for years. We are able to offer a variety of different games because Switch both a domestic console and a laptop, but there is a lot we can continue doing in the coming years, he says.

In a parallel, Doug Bowler, president of Nintendo of America, explained in 2020 that they seek reformulate the concept of console generation with Nintendo Switch.

If it is or not early to think about a successor is something we reflect on this column of opinion.