Nintendo said on Tuesday it expects to sell 13.5 million Switch consoles in the financial year ending March 2025. The Kyoto-based gaming company last year sold 15.7 million units of the hybrid home-portable device,

Nintendo Co. said it will announce a successor to its seven-year-old Switch game console, after forecasting a major profit decline for the current fiscal year.

The Japanese videogame maker expects net profit to drop 39% for the fiscal year started in April, on expectations of weaker sales of Switch consoles and software.

Nintendo said it sold 15.7 million units of its flagship Switch console in the year ended March 2024, beating its own forecasts.

Nintendo has just released it’s financial earnings report for the fiscal year ended March 2024, but alongside this a message from its president, Shuntaro Furukawa, has also finally acknowledged that the company has new hardware to announce soon – promising it’ll happen within this financial year (or before March 2025).

Japan's Nintendo said on Tuesday it plans to make an announcement about the successor to its long-lasting Switch console during the financial year ending March 2025. Nintendo has extended the lifecycle of the Switch device with hit titles such as "The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom",