An eagle-eyed Redditor has noticed that Nintendo’s Resource and Development expenses have surged by 23% from the last fiscal year, suggesting that new hardware is being worked on. You never know what the Kyoto-based company will come out with next as we have had Labo and amiibo and Mini Consoles. The Redditor points out that the last time Nintendo R&D expenses had a big jump of 20% or more, like the jump from 2023 to 2024, they released new hardware the following year.
Nintendo R&D expenses increase 23% from last fiscal year suggesting new hardware could be in works
Switch 2 Lite, duh.
Finally….Labo 2….
It’s the switch 2 with removable battery for the EU laws coming in
Switch 2 pro. That’s the big answer.
All digital NS2
I think its cool that Nintendo has never gone all digital, it truly does show that they do care about physical most of the time.
Well don’t get comfortable with it. If you have even the slightest clue going on with global trade and the restructuring of supply chains, then you know that shipping physical is going to be too costly. They already cost about $15 to manufacture and the already changing economic order is going to make them costly to ship. We will see this reality sometime next year.
I hope so. These GKC aren’t really physical copies, so a console that gets rid of the card slot and makes the console cheaper would definitely be well received. Hopefully with bigger storage drive if the price remains the same.
4DS
I can see two immediate answers:
Switch 2 Lite (Switch Lite released in September ’19, roughly 30 months after base model; R&D increase now would line up with a scheduled release Holiday ’27), I can see them trading a cartridge slot for 50% more storage without impacting the price
Nintendo 64 Classic Edition for release this Holiday (I have no real evidence for it existing, I just want it to be a thing)