On February 1, Nintendo reported its financial results for the third quarter of the fiscal year ending March 2021. At this debriefing session, a question and answer session with the press is causing ripples. A little wording in Nintendo’s response may suggest that the release of the new console that Nintendo Switch fans have been waiting for isn’t too far away.
“I won’t announce it right away” means …
Lifestyle media “T3” on the 3rd, about the above Nintendo financial results report meetingReported.. At the debriefing session, a question and answer session was also held with the press, and Bloomberg reporter Takashi Mochizuki asked, “Is there a new game console released this year?” In response to this question, Nintendo replied, “Although there are no plans to announce it soon, a new Mario game will be released in February and a new Monster Hunter game will be released in March” (see the tweet below).
Q: new model this year?
A: not planning to make an annoucement anytime soon as we have Mario ver in Feb, MH ver in Mar.Hint: Nintendo chief last year said not planning to release new model in 2020. Today’s was just “not anytime soon.” So, that means…?https://t.co/MQkwskXYrn
— Takashi Mochizuki (@6d6f636869) February 1, 2021
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What is causing ripples in the above answers is the phrase “not anytime soon”. That’s because when asked about the release of a new game console early last year, Nintendo clearly denied that it had no plans to release it. However, this answer denies the possibility of a release, citing timing restrictions. From these expressions, there is widespread speculation in overseas media that new game consoles may be released in the “someday” or “not far in the future,” if not “immediately.”
Even among analysts who specialize in analysis of the game industry, there is a widespread view that the release date of Nintendo’s new game console is not far away. For example, Serkan Toto, the head of Kantan Games, which consults on the Japanese game market, said that the new Nintendo Switch with 4K image quality will be available during the next fiscal year (that is, between April 2021 and the end of March 2022). Expected to be released in.
Given the current situation, the T3 article also states that just imagining playing the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild in 4K quality will cause drooling in your mouth.
The pioneer of “Pro” is Apple
By the way, Nintendo’s new game consoles, where speculation about the release is widespread, are often customarily called “Nintendo Switch Pro”. However, this name is a tentative name given by Switch fans and the press, and there is no guarantee that it will be released under this name.Regarding these tentative names, the game media “GAME RANT” will prompt reconsideration on the 8th.articleWas released.
The PS4 Pro, released in November 2016, was the catalyst for the rise in the popularity of the suffix “Pro” in the game industry. In the tech industry, the “Pro” came to the forefront of the MacBook Pro series sold by Apple, the first model of which was announced in 2006. “Pro” in these devices has a strong meaning of being an upward compatible model rather than a professional model.
The GAME RANT article argues that “Super” is more appropriate than “Pro” for the suffix attached to the upward compatible model of Nintendo Switch. The reason is that “Super” is more consistent with Nintendo’s tradition. The successor to the game console “Famicom” that made the company’s name decisive was named “Super Famicom”, and it is well known that “Super Mario Bros.”, which left a name in game history, is an ancestor of “Mario Bros.” It is a fact of. Therefore, the name “Nintendo Super Switch” is desirable.
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