
Nintendo Will Continue to Support Switch 'As Long as There is Demand' After Switch 2 Launch - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 04 February 2025 / 2,057 ViewsNintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa has stated the company will continue to support the original Nintendo Switch "as long as there is demand" even after the launch of the Nintendo Switch 2.
He does not believe the announcement of the Switch 2 will have a significant impact on the current sales of the original Switch.
"We don't think the impact of refraining from purchasing is that great," said Furukawa (via Sankei). Sales of the original Switch "will continue as long as there is demand."
The company did lower its forecast for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2025 once again. This time by 1.5 million units to 11.00 million units. If Nintendo is able to hit its forecast that would mean another 1.46 million Switch units shipped for the rest of the fiscal year for a lifetime shipment total of 152.32 million units.
The Nintendo Switch 2 will be backwards compatible with the original Switch and it is set to launch later this year.
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I think the Switch will be on the market till at least summer 2026
Switch Lite 5 years from now still selling:
-I'm tired Boss
You know, more insane things have happened.
Famicom and Super Famicom apparently weren't discontinued until 2003. Game Boy wasn't discontinued until the Game Boy Color was in 2003. Atari 2600 wasn't discontinued until 1992, nearly a decade after the North American video game crash.
Switch Lite not getting discontinued until 2030 is a possibility, though not overly likely.
If Nintendo keeps making them, the last year for Switch in a few years could still sell over 1 million units which is crazy for a console that is getting old and reached a relative saturation point.
Yeah, I'm pressing X to doubt on that one.
Even the DS was quickly abandoned outside Pokemon. There will be some cross gen games, some remasters or such. But otherwise, support will drop precipitously
agreed
until Ps2 is buried in the ground and they can stop....
I'm pretty sure they always say that lol. I expect support to quickly drop off in the months after Switch 2 comes out. Basically just games that they happened to not finish up for Switch yet before next gen starts. Otherwise it's gonna be 100% focus on Switch 2.
Metroid Prime 4, Pokémon ZA and Professor Layton say NO!
I'm still waiting for that budget Switch TV option for 100€.
I say 3 yrs from launch, so 2028
Maybe Nintendo will tell us how often the A button was pressed and how many subscribers played their games. Because THIS is it what counts!! Who is interested in hardwarenumbers anyway?!🤣😂 if 400.000 players play Mario Kart 8 DX and 77.000 players play Super Smash Bros. worldwide it can be considered a "success"🤣😂 This was sarcasm of course. To need for minus😎