Nintendo is gearing up for the Swap 2’s launch someday in 2025, and president Shuntaro Furukawa says that the corporate is “taking dangers and continuing with manufacturing in order that we will meet as a lot demand as potential,” in accordance with a machine translation of an earnings Q&A.
The corporate had some hassle holding the unique Swap in inventory throughout its very profitable 2017 launch. Nintendo isn’t going to disclose its particular Swap 2 manufacturing plans till it releases the marketing strategy for its subsequent fiscal 12 months (which begins in April), Furukawa says, however the firm desires to gauge demand following the Swap 2-focused Nintendo Direct on April 2nd.
“As with the Nintendo Swap, we consider it is not going to be straightforward to quickly improve manufacturing capability, however based mostly on our previous expertise, we’ll make preparations to reply as rapidly as potential,” he says.
The Q&A has a number of different fascinating tidbits:
However there are nonetheless a number of unanswered questions in regards to the Swap 2, and it looks like Nintendo goes to maintain a fairly tight lid on issues forward of the Swap 2 Direct. I’m simply completely happy that the Swap 2 appears like an even bigger, extra refined Swap.
As a part of its earnings, Nintendo introduced that the Nintendo Swap has offered greater than 150 million models, that means that it’s closing in on surpassing the Nintendo DS.