Nintendo says we won’t get new Switch at E3

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Despite what rumours say, there will not be a new Switch coming out at E3 this June. Nintendo’s CEO Shuntaro Furukawa said in yesterday’s earnings call that they are not announcing new hardware at the expo. He said, “As a general rule, we’re always working on new hardware and we will announce it when we are able to sell it, but we have no plans to announce that at this year’s E3 in June. E3 is scheduled to start on June 11^th.

Rumours claim there might be two new Switch consoles coming out this year, with a cheaper version expected to launch in June. And that may or may not happen, even without an E3 announcement, it seems highly unlikely for now.

Source: The Verge

Nintendo president debunks rumours about Switch successor and possible price cuts

The internet has been abuzz over the possibility that there’s going to be a Nintendo Switch 2 or that the current model is getting a price cut. Unfortunately, those will remain as rumours as Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa confirmed with Japan’s Sankei News that this isn’t in the cards at the moment. The statement was taken from Furukawa answering a question about the company’s goal to sell 20 million units in the fiscal year. His translated response was, “It is an extremely ambitious, but worthwhile achievement. So, we will maintain this goal. Nintendo Switch is our primary sales objective, and we are not considering a successor or a price cut at this time.” The response wasn’t prompted but it shows that Nintendo has gotten wind of the rumours going around and wanted to set the record straight that it isn’t the priority at the moment.