During a Q&A with a Japanese investor this week, Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa explained how the company plans to move away from the Switch console in the future.
“We’ve already announced that part of our software roadmap will be released by next spring,” Furukawa said (via VGC). “Unlike in the past, we have continued to have a wide range of games planned, even more than five years after release. That’s because the Nintendo Switch launch went so smoothly that we were able to focus all of our development resources on a single platform.”
Mise à jour: Bien que cette traduction comprenne à l’origine l’expression “préoccupation majeure”, la transcription publiée par la suite par Nintendo (PDF) n’utilise pas cette langue. La traduction n’est pas une science parfaite, et il est possible que Nintendo ait voulu clarifier son libellé avec la version traduite.
Quoi qu’il en soit, en réponse à une question sur la transition éventuelle vers une nouvelle génération de matériel, Furukawa a déclaré : “[L]If we look back at past experiences of generational change, such as As the changing Wii and Nintendo DS eras evolve, we recognize that one of our missions is to ensure that the transition to future generations of hardware is as smooth as possible. To that end, we focus on building long-term relationships with our customers (via Nintendo Accounts). As we continue to release new Nintendo Switch software for the enjoyment of consumers, we want to maintain the relationships between generations of hardware through services that use Nintendo Accounts and give them the opportunity to experience our intellectual property through other non-gaming channels.”
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Furukawa explained that Nintendo’s strategy to ensure it doesn’t lose its massive user base — over 100 million users according to the company’s 2021 fiscal year report — will be to ensure it offers services that also include Nintendo accounts and other external IP -Use addresses. A form of backwards compatibility was mentioned by Furukawa as another method of keeping the Switch audience.
As part of Nintendo’s latest earnings briefing, the company announced that lifetime Switch sales as of March 31 have now reached 107.65 million units and game sales have climbed to 822.18 million units. That number currently places the Switch close to the PS4 and Game Boy in the charts of best-selling consoles of all time, although it still has a long way to go before it can break the PS2 record of 155 million lifetime sales.
That number could be hard to come by due to the global semiconductor shortage caused in part by the coronavirus pandemic, which Nintendo says won’t end anytime soon. Last fiscal year, Nintendo sold fewer Switch units than last year, and the company also reduced its expected Switch sales for the current fiscal year to 21 million from 21.7 million.
There will still be plenty of games to play on the system including a number of first party titles like Bayonetta 3 and many indie games revealed in today’s Indie World Showcase.
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