As the industry shifts to a digital-dominated landscape – with the likes of Xbox’s Game Pass and Sony’s PlayStation Plus proving to be incredibly popular – Nintendo’s boss has revealed the business will also follow the media trend, but emphasized the company would remain committed to releasing physical titles too.
“Our objective is not to simply increase the share of digital sales, but to maximize overall game software sales, including sales of physical software. This policy will remain unchanged going forward,”Furukawa said during a financial results briefing for FY 2024.
The company’s president added Nintendo was looking to “enhance user-friendliness” for both their physical and digital-only customers in order to balance out their revenue coming from the two forms of media.
“[We will] need to enhance user-friendliness for both consumers who play packaged software and those who play download versions. Going forward, we intend to keep working on improvements to devise better solutions,” he explained.
This comes after it was reported the hotly-anticipated Nintendo Switch 2 would support backward-compatibility, allowing gamers to play their older titles on the new console.
According to the YouTube channel Moore’s Law Is Dead and content creator The Phawx, the upcoming device would also be able to overclock its CPU when in docked mode to optimize the device’s performance and underclock it to give the console better battery life when in handheld mode.
