just two days ago nintendo He surprised us all by revealing one of the characteristics that the successor to switch. He did it officially, as if it were a pill that sought to calm the hype what is between the gamers and the media, which go around every day telling what the leakers They say they have discovered. So, what is the reason for this surprising movement? Will we have new ones in the coming weeks?
The answer is basically No. nintendo He has already told us more than he had planned, but he has done it at a time of year when there is enough time so that in the middle of the Christmas campaign no one will remember that there is a successor to switch on the way. In this way, those who go to the stores to get Japanese machines, for themselves or as a gift, will not have in mind that in 2025, we will surely have a new generation.
Nintendo’s silence has a fundamental reason
It’s obvious that by now you’ve already guessed why. nintendo He does not want anything more to be known about what the successor of switch. Why not explain to us its new features, design advantages or general characteristics compared to the model we have in stores right now. And that reason is none other than that he does not want official information about the new hardware to tarnish the business of the Christmas campaign.
Throughout the last decade (and a little more) it is the first time that the next generation of the Japanese will hit stores after a console, Nintendo Switch, which remains among the best sellers. Not only the hardware itself, but the games, which top the sales charts with little effort. Going out to the media right now to explain in detail what the next machine will be like would be reckless, which would also deter many users from buying one now. switch.
When the Wii U arrived at Christmas 2012 (November, specifically), it did so to replace the Wii, without prejudice to the fact that it took away sales and the announcements took place in the spring of that same year. That is to say, there was no fear that the Christmas campaign would go to waste, but now the numbers could be reduced by an announcement that the Japanese neither want nor are going to make.
Nintendo does not want to lift the hare
As we tell you, nintendo has already announced, through the mouth of its president, Shuntaro Furukawawho do not expect a significant decrease in sales of both hardware and software, for the campaign that arrives in just a few weeks. And that may be so because they are not going to announce anything and what’s more, the only thing they have released, the backwards compatibility thing, goes in the direction of telling fans something like “keep buying games from switch that will serve you for her successor.
That is to say, even in that informative pill, the idea is implicit that they should not stop buying. switch and their cartridges, because what they spend can continue to be used for years. In the successor.
