As published this past Friday by the digital media ‘Video Games Chronicle’, the creator of Super Mario or The Legend of Zelda would be studying launching its new console in the first quarter of 2025.
The actions of Nintendo They fell almost 6% (5.8%) this Monday on the Tokyo Stock Exchange after investors digested the news that the Japanese company had informed different video game developers that it has planned to delay launch of the successor to its successful console Nintendo Switch to 2025. In fact, the fall could have been greater, since the titles recorded their largest intraday decline since October 2021 before moderating throughout the day.
As published this past Friday by the digital media ‘Video Games Chronicle’, The creator of Super Mario or The Legend of Zelda would be studying launching its new console in the first quarter of 2025 compared to a previous launch window at the end of 2024, perhaps coinciding with the Christmas quarter. Other media such as ‘Eurogamer’ or ‘Bloomberg’ have corroborated this information with their own sources.
It should be noted that this launch window would not be strange, since the Kyoto-based company launched the first Nintendo Switch on March 3, 2017. However, the launch of the hybrid console was conditioned by the failure of Wii U sales, predecessor of the Switch that did not get the support of external studios and that put Nintendo in an especially fragile financial situation from its launch in 2012 until its discontinuation in 2017.
Nintendo: what investors expect
Bloomberg expects the investors can continue dropping the value after taking the stock to an all-time high last week in anticipation of a Switch 2 release this year. On the other hand, other analysts consulted believe that these falls could represent a Interesting entry point into value.
Likewise, the alleged Switch delay is coupled with the belief that Nintendo could also delay the publication of some top-of-the-line video games to accompany the launch of their new hardware. Software is the most lucrative part of the company’s business and, in the coming months, only a handful of minor releases are expected such as ‘Princess Peach: Showtime!’, the remake of ‘Paper Mario: The Millennial Door’ or the version remastered ‘Luigi’s Mansion 2’. On the contrary, nothing is known about new titles from best-selling franchises such as ‘Mario Kart’ or ‘Pokémon’, as well as video games highly anticipated by their audience such as ‘Metroid Prime 4’.
Source: Ambito
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