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.
Q: new model this year?
A: not planning to make an annoucement anytime soon as we have Mario ver in Feb, MH ver in Mar.Hint: Nintendo chief last year said not planning to release new model in 2020. Today's was just "not anytime soon." So, that means…?https://t.co/MQkwskXYrn
— Takashi Mochizuki (@6d6f636869) February 1, 2021
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.