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Nintendo Plunges After Game Makers Say Switch 2 Pushed to 2025 - Bloomberg

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Nintendo Sinks After Game Makers Say Switch 2 Pushed to 2025 - Bloomberg

Nintendo Sinks After Game Makers Say Switch 2 Pushed to 2025

- Anticipation was mounting for Switch successor debut this year
- Nintendo has said current Switch remains its main business

Nintendo Co. shares tumbled after reports that the company was pushing back the launch of its Switch successor to the beginning of next year.

The shares dropped as much as 8.8% in Tokyo on Monday, their biggest intraday decline since October 2021. The Kyoto-based company told its game publishing partners that the release of the next-generation video game console will be delayed to the early months of 2025 from the last quarter of this year, Bloomberg News reported. Some of Nintendo’s partners were advised not to expect the still-unannounced console until March 2025 at the earliest.

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