{"id":122793,"date":"2021-01-04T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2021\/01\/industry_analysts_are_still_confident_well_see_a_switch_pro_this_year"},"modified":"2021-01-04T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:30:00","slug":"industry-analysts-are-still-confident-well-see-a-switch-pro-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2021\/01\/04\/industry-analysts-are-still-confident-well-see-a-switch-pro-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry Analysts Are Still Confident We’ll See A Switch Pro This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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GamesIndustry.biz is back with its annual predictions for the year<\/a>, and it seems like industry experts think it’s about to be a big year for Nintendo.<\/p>\n

Mat Piscatella of NPD, Dr Serkan Toto of Kantan Games, and Piers Harding-Rolls of Ampere Analysis all predicted that the Switch family would be the best-selling console of 2021, and although Piscatella was unconvinced that Nintendo would be releasing a new model, the latter two disagree.<\/p>\n

When asked for his first 2021 prediction, Dr Toto begins with the launch of the Switch Pro<\/a>. “I predict a beefed-up 4K device is coming during Nintendo’s next financial year,” he says in the interview with GI.biz. However, last year Dr Toto predicted a “spectacular game on mobile from Nintendo” – a prediction that he says was false (no love for Pok\u00e9mon Caf\u00e9 Mix<\/a><\/strong>, then). He adds that “Switch is just a word”, but we’re not entirely<\/em> sure what that means. It’s… a little ominous, actually.<\/p>\n

Harding-Rolls is a little more reserved when it comes to Nintendo’s next move. Last year, he said that the launch of the Switch Pro was “unlikely” in 2020 – and he was right. Now, he says that the Switch Pro would make “commercial sense”, and that he currently has it in his 2021 forecasts.<\/p>\n

We don’t know anything, of course, but after many years of Switch Pro rumours, we’re understandably wary, even if the new predictions come from people who get paid to do this stuff.<\/p>\n

Could 2021 be the year of 4K Nintendo gaming, at last? Would you upgrade to a Switch Pro if you had the choice? Discuss in the comments below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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