Shuntaro Furukawa, president of the company, anticipates that the impact of the coronavirus exists, but not with excessive severity at the moment.
Nintendo has more video games in development for the Nintendo Switch slated for 2020 that have yet to be announced. The company's president and CEO, Shuntaro Furukawa, confirmed the information during the question-and-answer session following the company's annual financial meeting on May 7.
The concern about the impact that the coronavirus (COVID-19) may have on the company is real in the group of investors, so many of the questions revolved around this global health crisis. While acknowledging that the Chinese factories responsible for the production of almost all Nintendo consoles have had a severe standstill this first half, with delays and lack of supply in Japan, the impact on Nintendo's business strategy is being "less " for now.
In addition to the games already announced, the Kyoto firm plans to launch games that we do not know yet. However, everything is susceptible to change: they are encountering added difficulties in completing those respective developments; presumably due to the impossibility of working face-to-face and having adopted telework.
Nintendo Switch already supports 55.77 million units worldwide; the console is in the middle of its life in the market.
Nintendo Switch in 2020: An Incomplete Game Catalog
Just a few days ago we reviewed in FreeGameTips as an agenda the confirmed titles for Nintendo Switch in 2020 both from third-party companies and from Nintendo itself; and the scarce (and unusual at this point) number of names included in the company's official report drew attention. According to the financial report for the last quarter of the last fiscal year ended March 31 (Q4 FY2020), works such as The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Bayonetta 3 and Metroid Prime 4 are still undated.
It should be noted that the coronavirus (COVID-19) is affecting the plans of the Japanese industry as a whole, which may postpone a possible Nintendo Direct planned for June around the dates of the already canceled E3 or the current development of video games that They were planned for the end of 2020 and, given this health crisis, they will have to see the light now at a later date.
Nintendo, for its part, has not confirmed at this time the celebration of a Nintendo Direct for the coming weeks or months. All in all, Nintendo Switch has already sold more than 55.77 million units worldwide with more than 21 million consoles in the fiscal year just ended; a record figure that we have not seen for over a decade. Also noteworthy is the excellent debut of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which adds in record time the figure of 13.41 million units sold; 11.77 million copies in just eleven days. The fastest selling console. You can check here their 10 best-selling games.
