No plans to announce a new Nintendo Switch model anytime soon

No plans to announce a new Nintendo Switch model anytime soon

Despite numerous rumors about an upcoming Pro / Plus / New model for the Nintendo Switch, there has yet to be an official announcement that such a product is coming.

During the Q&A session for Nintendo’s latest financials report, the company addressed a question about the possibility of a “new model” of Nintendo Switch being released in 2021.

Takashi Mochizuki (Bloomberg) noted Nintendo stated that they were “not planning to make any announcement anytime soon” since they were about to release the Mario and Monster Hunter Rise edition Nintendo Switch variants in the coming months.

Not soon

Many have interpreted this comment to mean that Nintendo does not plan to announce a new Nintendo Switch model at this time, “Pro” or otherwise, so as not to eat into the sales of the special edition Switches they are releasing in the coming months.

That said, the change in wording from “not in 2020” to “not anytime soon” does raise a few eyebrows, and has some people speculating that Nintendo is indeed planning to announce a Nintendo Switch Pro after the special editions have had their time to shine.

But Nintendo claimed the same when the Nintendo Switch Lite came out … so yeah.