The Nintendo Switch along with its Lite and OLED variants, has had great popularity over the last five years. However, amid speculations of a “Nintendo Switch Pro” and the arrival of the next generation of Playstation and Xbox systems, people are starting to question when Nintendo would reveal the Nintendo Switch’s own successor, as has been the case for decades.
Piers Harding-Rolls of Ampere Analysis told GamesIndustry.biz that Nintendo’s next-gen system will arrive in “late 2024,” after Nintendo Switch sales began to fall in 2022. Nonetheless, Harding-Rolls predicts that the Switch will remain one of the year’s best-selling consoles in 2022, despite the fact that rumors of a “Pro” edition are unlikely to materialize.
Piers Harding-Rolls on Nintendo Switch successor estimation
I’m currently expecting the console market year-on-year performance to be quite flat in 2022 as Switch sales decline and we come off what has been an amazing couple of years for console gaming. Even so, Nintendo Switch family of devices will once again be the best-selling consoles in 2022 at around 21 million sold to consumers, aided by the release of Switch OLED. I’m not expecting a Switch Pro in 2022. We have a next-gen Nintendo console in our forecasts for late 2024, so I’m not convinced a ‘Pro’ model is going to appear at all.
Well personally 2024 is still 2 years of and would mean the lifecycle of the Nintendo Switch would have been 7+ years, which I feel is stretching it just a bit too much. 2022 will be the year the Nintendo Switch in it’s current form will be still lacking behind Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X. But also coming is the Steamdeck … and who knows what 2022 will bring let alone 2023, or 2024 for that matter.
