Nintendo Switch Successor Console to Launch in Second Half of 2024: Report

Nintendo’s subsequent mainline console is reportedly set to launch within the second half of 2024. As per VGC’s sources, growth kits for the subsequent gaming console have been despatched out to ‘key companion studios,’ including that it may be utilized in moveable mode akin to the present Nintendo Switch. It is common for console producers like PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo to offer take a look at models to builders, approach forward of launch, to allow them to begin making, testing, and optimising video games for the stated platform. No pricing particulars have been talked about, however for comparability, the Nintendo Change was launched at $299.99 (about Rs. 24,684) within the US.

The report additionally claims that Nintendo is planning to debut the brand new console with an LCD display screen as an alternative of the premium OLEDs, as a cost-cutting measure. As a substitute, the price may very well be devoted extra in direction of storage, as video games enhance in constancy, taking the current-gen PC, PS5, and Xbox Series S/X AAA titles upwards of 100GB. By default, the usual Switch version comes with 32GB of in-built storage, with newer first-party video games like The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom taking over greater than half of it — 18.2GB. To not point out, video games from third-party publishers are even bigger. It additionally seems as if the Japanese gaming big is not placing an finish to bodily media both, with the brand new console allegedly primed with a cartridge slot to learn video games.

For now, Nintendo hasn’t formally commented on these stories, however a report from Might alluded that the corporate will not be releasing a brand new console no less than till April 2024. Whereas the Nintendo Change has offered over 125 million units globally, the general gross sales this yr have gone down, which aligns completely with a 2024 launch for the subsequent technology. Let’s not overlook the Nintendo Direct occasion from June both, which revealed a pantheon of latest video games — together with Super Mario Bros. Wonder — which might lengthen the Change’s life cycle into the primary half of subsequent yr. Whereas backwards compatibility on the brand new unnamed console can be a blessing for purchasers, the VGC report means that sure third-party publishers have tried pushing again in opposition to the function, claiming that it will forestall them from reselling older video games on the brand new {hardware}.

Earlier this month, the European Union adopted a brand new regulation to implement sustainability for batteries, which implied that handheld gaming consoles can be required to accommodate replaceable batteries by 2027. It feels just like the four-year-long interval is adequate time for producers to revamp their upcoming merchandise to swimsuit their ruling, which states that clients ought to be capable of take away and substitute moveable batteries utilizing commercially out there instruments or specialised ones which are included within the package deal — freed from cost. Presently, it is unclear whether or not Nintendo’s upcoming console will persist with the proposed guidelines for its EU market or if the heavy opposition from console producers will forestall it altogether.