Nintendo has revised its hardware forecast down yet again as sales of the Switch and its games came in “below expectations.” For the first nine months of the current financial year, sales from Nintendo’s dedicated game console business decreased by 31.

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Yooka-Replayee is also slated to launch on Switch 2 (although there’s no telling if it’ll be there at launch) while a sort of Diablo-like game about catching and leveling monsters in Synth Beasts could help cover any potential Pokemon -shaped holes in the lineup.

First-party games like Mario Kart and Metroid Prime could be joined by some absolute belters from the likes of Microsoft and Atlus.

Given all of the apparent changes to the Joy-Con Controllers with the Nintendo Switch 2, such as the rumored ability to use them like a PC mouse, a true follow-up to 1-2 Switch could be a very smart way for Nintendo to introduce these new additions to the more casual side of its audience on day one.

Nintendo shared its earnings report for the end of 2024, showing that console sales were down further than expected in the months before the Switch 2 reveal.

Nintendo is caught between its eight-year-old Switch console and the next-gen Switch 2 — a purgatory that usually hits sales.

The Japanese videogame maker said Tuesday that net profit dropped 42% from a year earlier to 237.19 billion yen, for the nine-month period.

Japan's Nintendo cut its full-year sales Switch forecast by 12% to 11 million units as the aging console loses momentum ahead of the launch of a successor device this year. Nintendo remains dependent on its console business even as it has opened stores and its roster of characters feature in theme parks and film.