I don’t believe him. Why would Nintendo not be talking to important industry partners about upcoming console plans? I assume that every console vendor is talking to major developers to get feedback on prototypes and keep them in the loop about long term projections. Even if a new console is not coming soon, I am sure that development partners are getting updates on what the next console would be (and there is always a next console).
If a new console is coming soon, developers would need to know now if they have to budget for a Switch 2 porting team at some point in 2024 for a console launching in 2025. Launch titles need to start development well in advance.
As for the patent statement, his comment was obvious. Of course a patent does not mean that the technology is going to be used in an upcoming console.
Can they lie about this? Like I never know exactly up to which point they can hide certain things based on the fact they are a publicly traded company and misleading or liying to possible investors is usually a No No…
Outside of that, it would make sense… Like I see them announcing it around next spring with demos around the usual E3 dates and release before the holidays. So before that they would want to sell the OLED new models during this holidays, knowing a new one is coming doesn’t help with that.
Companies cannot lie in official investor relations statements. I don’t think they face the same level of scrutiny for media comments about unannounced future plans.
Even then, there are many ways that a leak can be factual but technically untrue. Maybe show off the Switch 2 prototype at the conference, we swung by their headquarters after the conference concluded or showed off the prototype in a hotel room across the street from the conference.
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Maybe the title is misleading. I don’t know any Japanese, but using online translation, this is what you get from the original article:
Internet news sites have been reporting observations of the successor, but President Furukawa pointed out, “Rumors are circulating mainly on the Internet as if they were public information, but they are inaccurate.'”
This doesn’t negate anything, it just says the rumours are inaccurate, which is probably true in most cases. So this is just saying “rumours are just rumours”, it doesn’t mean there’s absolutely no truth in any of them. He then says (again, translated online):
He cited reports that Nintendo provided explanations about next-generation consoles to specific software makers in 2022 and that Nintendo demonstrated a new model at an overseas event in the summer of 2023, denying them as “untrue.”.
In this case I’d say even if these were true, calling them “untrue” doesn’t negate all of it absolutely, just that this is not exactly how it happened or whatever. Also take into account these are online translations so it might be that the sentences are even more vague in Japanese.
The Switch is losing steam, which is expected at its age, so it’ll be a matter of time. It’s obvious Nintendo has been working on their next thing for quite some time, as they always do, but we won’t know exactly what it is until anything official is said.
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I know how this turns out before it happens. Nintendo is telling the truth and everyone that think it’s Nintendos pantent is dumb. This happened with the original switch to
“There is no Switch 2, please keep buying Switches”
