Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa hasn’t said much, but in June he spoke to some kind of new hardware on the horizon: “As for the transition from Nintendo Switch to the next-generation machine,” Furukawa said to investors, “We want to do as much as possible in order to smoothly transition our customers, while utilizing the Nintendo Account”.
The Nintendo Switch has sold 125 million units since its release in 2017, so the pressure is on to put out something just as successful. Over 1 billion Switch games have been sold, so you might think this next-gen console would be guaranteed to have backward compatibility. But VCG reported that some publishers “expressed concern that legacy support for Switch games could negatively affect sales of next-gen titles”.
Other sources report the new console is “progressing well”, but the gaming world still awaits confirmation that it will include 4K resolution or any processing power upgrades.