Nintendo President Says Firm Is In “Uncharted Territory” With 6-12 months-Outdated Change

Even Nintendo appears considerably stunned on the phenomenal success of the Change. The Change has damaged data, with its video games repeatedly touchdown on best-seller lists, whereas the console has turn into the third best-selling of all time, overtaking Sony’s PlayStation 4 and Nintendo’s Recreation Boy, with greater than 122 million lifetime gross sales. All this implies the corporate is discovering itself in unexplored territory.

Let’s recall that the Mario maker additionally scored successful with its revolutionary Wii console, and that it too had a protracted lifespan, however in the direction of the tip, as the corporate ready to interchange it with the Wii U, growth wound down. With the Change now experiencing slowing gross sales, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa has been repeatedly requested by traders if this era is over (by way of kotaku). And it appears there’s nonetheless life but.

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The Nintendo president believes the corporate has entered “uncharted territory” and revealed that there are nonetheless titles below growth for the Change. Listed below are his precise phrases:

“Nintendo Change is developing on its seventh yr of gross sales in March, and we see this as uncharted territory within the historical past of our devoted online game platforms. Below these circumstances it’s onerous to think about that {hardware} gross sales will proceed to develop on the identical tempo they need to date,” Furukawa mentioned.

He continued: “Nonetheless, there are titles below growth for Nintendo Change, and new titles will proceed to be proposed going ahead”.

That is proper. Not solely does Nintendo have titles being actively developed, it is nonetheless listening to pitches for future video games for the system. In truth the Nintendo boss believes that “there’s nonetheless room for progress in gross sales” and desires to take advantage of demand by sustaining “a excessive stage of engagement”.

This comes following hypothesis that Nintendo was beginning to wind down the Change after it appeared it did not have too many massive video games on the horizon aside from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom in Might, and Pikmin 4 in June, each of which arrive within the first half of 2023. Analysts have predicted that new Nintendo {hardware} might not arrive till 2024 on the earliest. Within the meantime, Nintendo does have some new video games coming for the Change whereas it is also sustaining engagement with retro releases, equivalent to bringing Recreation Boy and GBA video games to the system.

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