© NintendoNo one can deny that Nintendo has had one enormously successfully in 2020. With operating profits up 98%, Animal Crossing: New Horizons achieving 31 million sales and a console market share of 87% in Japan, the company’s recent financial report confirmed this extremely well lately.
Despite this, we haven’t heard much about the upcoming 2021 programming. Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury arrives next week and We Pokémon Snap launches in April, but out of Courage by default II (which he publishes outside of Japan): Nintendo’s current plans feel pretty bare.
In discussing these financial results during a conference call, a question arose about Nintendo’s upcoming software plans for the next fiscal year. In response, Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa confirmed:
Our software program for the next exercise is a topic we will address at the appropriate time. We have already announced our plans to launch Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury in February, followed by MONSTER HUNTER RISE in March (see note 1) and New Pokémon Snap in April (see note 2). As always, we are preparing several software titles for consumers next year.
So, in other words, we will have to wait and see. Nintendo doesn’t usually announce its upcoming games too early, except for the exceptions, so it’s not an unexpected response from Furukawa. For now, though, it seems unlikely we’ll hear anything new yet.
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