According to comments made by Furukawa during Nintendo’s recent shareholder Q&A, the plan is to utilise the existing Nintendo Account system to make the jump to the next generation as smooth as possible for customers. Here’s part of what Nintendo’s president had to say, courtesy of a translation by Twitter user Genki:
Shuntaro Furukawa: “As for the transition from Nintendo Switch to the next generation machine, we want to do as much as possible in order to smoothly transition our customers, while utilizing the Nintendo Account.”
I just hope it doesn’t come out before holiday 2024. I’m too broke Nintendo, you already took all my money this year, let me recover for a bit
Haha, I can understand it. I don’t think it will release before that. They will have at least half an year between announcement and release of the console, and it doesn’t seem like they are going to announce anything this year.