Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa reaffirmed in an earnings call after publication that the new console will still be revealed (in some form or another) by the end of March 2025.

The Switch 2 is still nowhere in sight, but Nintendo promises that it hasn’t changed its announcement timeline for the new console. Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa said on Tuesday in an online press conference that a reveal of the new hardware was still on track for this fiscal year ending March 2025.

With the video game world waiting with bated breath for Nintendo to announce the inevitable Switch 2, analysts have said it is now unlikely that the company will say anything before the end of 2024.

September's The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom sold 2.58 million copies, while other recent releases like Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door sold 1.94 million copies and Luigi's Mansion 2 HD sold 1.57 million units.

Nintendo was prepared to suck it up financially this year as sales of its aging Switch decline, but things are going a bit worse than it hoped. After selling fewer consoles than it expected over the last two quarters (4.

Investors are waiting for news surrounding a successor to the Switch which they hope will re-energize Nintendo’s gaming business.