Nintendo Job Listing Mentions Cross-Platform Development and Next-Generation Nintendo Platforms - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 May 2023 / 6,428 Views
A Nintendo job posting for a Game Technologies R&D Engineer/Scientist at Nintendo European Research and Development (NERD) was spotted by Reddit. The job listing mentions of cross-generation and next-generation platforms for Nintendo.
The position focuses on cross-platform development, game engine architecture, network programming, and interactions with large code bases.
"The goal will be to aim for and go beyond state-of-the-art solutions in these fields, targeting current and next generation Nintendo platforms," reads the job listing. "It will be necessary to collaborate with game developers to bring new technologies to the market."
Nintendo working on its next-generation console is not a surprise as the Nintendo switch released over six years ago in March 2017. Typically, it takes years to develop a video game console and the next Nintendo console is likely to release in the next couple of years.
It should be noted NERD has been responsible for Nintendo emulating its legacy titles. It is possible this means Nintendo plans for all the Nintendo Switch Online content to carry over to the next Nintendo console.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Next Switch gotta have backwards compatibility.
I think we are in the era now (again) where there is an expectation that games will carry forwards.
Hmm? I wanna see how this plays out. ^^
I bet they'll announce the switch 2 the day my zelda switch bundle arrives.
Probably a new console. I'd absolutely love it if it meant Switch/PC cross platform development though. Would love to get some Nintendo games on Steam.
Yes, Switch 2 is releasing in 2024
Probably announced in late 2024 and release holiday 2025 . Switch is killing it
Why kill it's potential to overtake ds and PS2
Nintendo is not going to sacrifice their short and long term profits/success just for the sake of breaking some record. They're going to go w/ the strategy that will help Switch 2 success right out of the gate and carry them through the rest of the decade into the early '30s. If Switch 1 is able to leg it out to the overtake the DS and PS2, fantastic! If not, oh well.
It still sells 19 to 20 million units a year after 7 years. That's alot of profit and it still hasn't gotten a price cut. Imagine if they did a price cut
The Fiscal year ending March 2023 Nintendo have forecast 18m sales after revising down twice. That will mark it up to its 6th birthday. Sales currently in the 7th year are starting from a point of ~30% down on last year. It’s 7th year could even end up being as low as 10-11m with a slow holiday period.
Zero chance the Switch sells that low this year, even with a disastrous holiday. Switch has already sold 3,224,000 for the first quarter. March was the Switch’s lowest month so far, averaging ~227,000/week. Even if we apply that low average to the 26 weeks for Q2 and Q3 (which is extreme lowballing with Zelda releasing), we get 5.9m for a total of 9.1m before the holiday quarter even begins.
The Fiscal year starts in April though, it will be the January - March in 2024 that will be included
Ok, gotcha. But the conclusion is the same: Even with a consistent 30% drop from 18m for next fiscal, Switch still finishes at 12.6m, so 10-11m is just not realistic. But most importantly, there’s no way Apr-Jun will be down 30% from last year; Switch would have to fall to ~185,000 a week for that to happen during a quarter that has Zelda, the Zelda OLED and the Mario movie.
All of that is worst case scenario though because I believe that there is still some system-moving software still coming after Pikmin 4. If Nintendo goes all in on Switch for one final year, fiscal '23-'24 should still be above 15m. (Keep in mind the 3DS was actually UP in its sixth year by almost 500,000. Stranger things...)
It's not gonna stay at 18mil per year. It dropped from 28mil to 23mil to 18mil and it's gonna keep dropping faster. The momentum and mindshare that Nintendo currently has would be jeopardized if they took to long. Next March the Switch is seven years old. A good point to launch a new console.
There's alot of big hitters coming to keep it going. Just having botw2 coming will cause the sales to skyrocket. Good chance of having the next Mario coming as well which is another boost to sales. Last month it sold 1 million with no much big hitters coming out..imagine when botw 2 comes out. Plus it it drops below 18illion units, Nintendo can do a price cut to increase it back up again or release switch pro with slightly better CPU and GPU
