On November 6, 2024, Nintendo held a briefing meeting for the second fiscal quarter of the fiscal year 2025.
Today, it seems that every activity of Nintendo has rumors or expectations of "will release new hosts" beforehand, although it is proven to be just rumors in the end.But this time it was finally a little reliable.
In the explanation meeting, Nintendo revealed the information about the new host. President Gu Chuan Taro said that Nintendos next generation will be compatible with the Switch game.And paid membership service Nintendo Switch Online will also be able to continue to use on the next generation of hosts.
The Switch platform of this generation cannot be compatible with previous generation 3DS and Wiiu games. Network services also transferred from Nintendo Network ID to new NintendoAccount completely restarts on software and hardware.The next generation will be Nintendo once again inheriting the previous generation.
In addition to this heavy news, Nintendo also revealed a series of data on the Switch host. At the end of the Switchs life cycle, many of them can be regarded as a summary and summary and summary and summary of this generation.Cover the coffin conclusion.
As of the end of September 2024, the total sales of Nintendos Switch host have reached 146.04 million units.About 10 million units.The total sales volume of the game has reached 1.3 billion, and the software and hardware sales ratio is 8.94, which means that the average player will buy 8.94 games for each player.This data has improved significantly compared to Wiius 7.64 and 3DS 5.16.
and active players, that is, there are about 127 million players who have played at least once in the past year. Compared with the aboveThe same period of fiscal year is still growing, and it covers a wide range of groups from children to the elderly.
Nintendo also said that after the desktop host and the handheld are two, the companys development system can also be unified, which will make the company the companyNew games can be launched.In addition, the two -in -one form makes Switch, which is mainly positioned as the desktop host, has shown the trend of handhelders in business. The sales form has changed from "one family one" to "one person and one".
This statement may mean that Nintendo will continue to maintain the design scheme of the masterpiece in the future.
Nintendo continued to emphasize the importance of online services. As of the end of September 2024, Nintendo Account registered users came to 366 million.34 million.
In terms of sales of first-party games, several major IPs are compared to the previous hostsMake several times.Among them, the total sales of the Mario IP game in this generation reached 181 million.
Animal Mori Friends series sales reached 46 million copies, the All-Star Big Disposal series reached 35 million, the Cerida series reached 53 million copiesThe Spledra series reached 26 million copies.
The experience of Wii and Wiiu called the "Three Grave Machines" is absorbed.Cooperation.
Nintendo to simplify the development and transplantation of Switch games by supporting the mainstream engines, opening the developer Nintendo Developer Portal website, etc. to attract third -party manufacturers.In addition, Nintendo has strengthened support for independent games through Indie World and other activities.
The proportion of sales of third -party games on the Switch platform has been approaching or more than half of the fiscal year.
Nintendo also announced a photo of a third-party partner, which is worth noting that several are loyal to the PlayStation platform.Partner.
If the Falcom, which has launched the Isso series and the trajectory series, has first launched and exclusively occupied the new game on the PlayStation platform.To the Switch platform.At the end of 2023, Falcom also said that in addition to the PlayStation platform, the company will also be directly responsible for the production and distribution of game production and distribution on the Switch platform.
In 2016, Nintendo launched the first mobile game "Super Mario Cool Run" for the iOS and Android platform.Nintendo launched a variety of mobile games, which moved the IP of Flame Malley and Animal Mori Friends to the mobile platform.As of the end of September 2024, Nintendo Mobile Games received a total of 920 million downloads in 164 countries.
But it is worth noting that the current includes "Animal Forest: Pocket Camp", "Lost Dragon Covenant", "Doctor Mario World" and "Mario Motors Tour"A number of mobile games have stopped updating or carried out, and Nintendo seems to have given up to continue to invest in mobile game business.
Nintendo has continued to expand the scale in the past few years.People, of which developers have increased from about 2,500 to about 3950.To this end, Nintendo plans to build the second development building of the agency.
Compared to Sony and Microsoft, Nintendo has always been very cautious in the issue of mergers and acquisitions.Nintendo said that although it does not deny the role of mergers and acquisitions, it pays more attention to the conversation of the companys values and gives priority to organically expanding the scale of the society.
The business policy explaining the dazzling data at the Switchs career for SWITCH, and then filled with a strong stroke, but with the new host informationThe gradual disclosure, Nintendos generation has gradually ended.How to bring Switchs huge legacy into the new era is probably the most concerned about Nintendo and players.
