Nintendo is getting the Switch ready for retirement

Nintendo is stepping further distant from its archetypal Switch console, with the institution present readying to dedicate astir of its attraction to its successor. In a financial results briefing connected Wednesday, Nintendo said that “going forward, we volition displacement our superior improvement absorption to Nintendo Switch 2 and grow our concern astir this caller platform.”

The Switch won’t beryllium retired immediately, but the wheels are present successful motion, and we’ll astir apt commencement seeing less games released for the older platform. For now, Nintendo says it volition proceed to merchantability Switch hardware “while taking user request and the concern situation into consideration,” and that respective large Switch titles are inactive successful the pipeline from October onward.

More than 10.36 cardinal Switch 2 consoles person been sold since it launched successful June, 84 percent of which were purchased by radical transitioning from the archetypal Switch, according to Nintendo. That’s conscionable a fraction of the 154.01 cardinal beingness income for the Switch, but Nintendo says it’s seeing a azygous migration to the caller platform.