Nintendo will launch Switch successor when they can create a new experience

Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa has chatted with Japanese news publication The Nikkei and was questioned about when the Kyoto-based company is thinking of launching a successor to the popular Switch system. Mr. Furukawa reiterated that the company starts thinking about a successor several years in advance and that the internal resource and development teams are continuously looking at new forms of entertainment. He concluded by saying that the final deciding factor is when it all when it all fits into piece and they can successfully bring everything together and create a brand new experience.

“The hardware and software development teams are in the same building, communicating closely and thinking about how we can propose new forms of entertainment. In order to create a single piece of hardware, we have to do a lot of preparation several years in advance, so we are working without stopping. In the end, the deciding factor in whether or not to commercialise a product is whether it can create a new experience.”

Nintendo president, Shuntaro Furukawa

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