NintendoGamesIndustry.biz is back with its annual forecasts for the year, and it seems industry experts think it’s going to be a big year for Nintendo.
NPD’s Mat Piscatella, Kantan Games’ Dr. Serkan Toto, and Ampere Analysis’s Piers Harding-Rolls all predicted the Switch family would be the best-selling console of 2021, and while Piscatella wasn’t convinced Nintendo would make a new model release, the latter two disagree.
When asked for his first prediction for 2021, Dr. Toto with the launch of the Switch Pro. “I predict there will be an improved 4K device in Nintendo’s next financial year,” he said in the interview with GI.biz. Last year, Dr. Toto, however, a “spectacular game on Nintendo mobile” – a prediction that he said was wrong (no love for Pokémon Café Mix, thereafter). He adds that “Switch is just a word,” but we’re not whole sure what that means. It’s actually a bit ominous.
Harding-Rolls is a bit more reserved when it comes to Nintendo’s next move. Last year, he said the Switch Pro’s launch in 2020 was “unlikely” – and he was right. Now he says the Switch Pro would make “commercial sense,” and that he currently has this in his 2021 forecasts.
We don’t know anything, of course, but after many years of Switch Pro rumors, we are understandably wary, even if the new predictions come from people being paid to do so.
Could 2021 finally be the year of 4K Nintendo gaming? Would you upgrade to a Switch Pro if you had the choice? Discuss in the comments below!