The Next Nintendo Switch Model: New Evidence Confirms Console Development

Despite the dearth of actual announcements on the future console iteration, papers seem to hint that the Switch’s replacement may be launched any time soon. Nintendo is a Japanese gaming company that released its first hybrid gaming platform in 2017.

Gamers have been speculating about the future Nintendo Switch version for many years; some have even referred to it as the Nintendo Switch Pro or the Nintendo Switch 2. The Japanese videogame behemoth has insisted that it is not working on the next Switch system, in spite of claims from a variety of publications and speculations that have been circulating.

Higher costs for materials

It’s interesting to note that a number of newly found clues point to the possibility that Nintendo could reveal a new Switch model very soon. Since 2015, the firm has been reporting financial results that imply they are working on a new product. Users on ResetEra have been discussing how much more than normal Nintendo has been spending on raw materials. According to the figures, the corporation experiences an increase in expenses for the purchase of raw materials and supplies just prior to the creation of new hardware.

Between 2015 and 2017, the enormous Japanese gaming company spent an annual average of $15 million on the cost of materials for its operations. However, it has increased quite a bit since 2018, and it is anticipated that by the year 2022, the cost would be over $500 million – which is 8,000 times more than the typical expenditure and more than double the numbers in 2019.

The time period during which the firm was focusing on Switch Lite and Switch OLED, respectively, might be held responsible for the sharp increase in the cost of materials that occurred in 2019 and 2021. Many people believe that the increase in expenditure is most likely due to the fact that Nintendo is developing on a new Switch system and could publicly reveal it very soon. This speculation is based on the numbers shown below. But that’s not the end of it.

A number of members on the same gaming site revealed on Wednesday that Nintendo had registered the NSW trademark with EUIPO. Moreover, in Class 9 the following could be read:

Recorded and downloadable media, computer software, blank digital or analog recording and storage media

as well as

Apparatus and instruments for recording, transmitting, reproducing or processing sound, images or data

 

At the moment there is no official indication that Nintendo is currently developing a new version of the Nintendo Switch console.