Readers, readers, it’s time to take your finest tweezers. After a number of rumors regarding a potential Nintendo Switch Pro, which has never been released yet (as you have probably already noticed), the analyst Piers Harding-Rolls d‘Ampere Analysis provided its forecast for the year to GamesIndustry. Despite the rumors that seem to continue on a model Pro, Piers just expect this iteration of the Nintendo Switch just never happens.
I currently expect the year-over-year console market performance to be fairly stable in 2022, with Switch sales declining. Even so, the Nintendo Switch family of devices will once once more be the top-selling console in 2022 with around 21 million units sold, thanks to the release of the Nintendo Switch OLED. I don’t expect a Switch Pro in 2022. We have a next-gen Nintendo console in our forecast for the end of 2024, so I’m not at all convinced that a Pro model might appear so soon. .
It is therefore difficult to know where to turn for the moment: should we rather believe an analyst who, for the moment, is the only one to make such a statement on a new machine? (which by the way hope will use the same hybrid concept) ? Or rather believe all leakers who speak of a Switch Pro (and who keep talking regarding it) for the coming months? At the house of Switch-Actu, we advise you not to believe either. Not that the release of a superior model is impossible, that it is a new one Switch or another console; but the incessant rumors regarding Switch models have so far only been a source of conflict within the community Nintendo. It is interesting to read reviews like that of Piers Harding-Rolls, but let’s stay there: nothing is official, so don’t share the info with your friends by telling them “a new console is coming in 2024 that’s 100% sure“. Please.
How do you feel regarding this?