Article: Alberto Garrido – Gamereactor.cn
The Nintendo Switch is just two months away from its sixth birthday. Nintendo’s hybrid console is already the fourth best-selling console of all time (the latest figures show that around 120 million units are already in homes worldwide), and the company estimates that it will sell 20 another million units in 2023.
However, it is also a fact that the system is far behind today’s software needs. A console with six-year-old components can barely handle some of the latest ported versions, and in many cases, will have graphics limitations or a complete sacrifice in quality and performance. But if the latest news from Japan is anything to go by, all of these may have an expiration date.
Japanese site Nikkei (via Reddit) published an article today in which they report that Nintendo is already in talks with component suppliers to begin production of the successor to the Nintendo Switch, which is expected to go on sale in mid-2024. A claim that Nintendo has not confirmed on at the time of writing, but it is in line with Digital Foundry’s recent release.
Although we have discussed the Tegra239 rumor dying in the Nintendo Switch 2 in the past, the article does not reveal component partners for Nintendo’s new console. What seems clear is that if released in the middle of next year, it would make The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Realm the last major release in the Nintendo Switch’s lifecycle, assuming it doesn’t have Mario has the last word on the matter.
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