Nintendo lately began a brand new subsidiary workplace in Taiwan, which is able to take over operations for the area starting April 1.
Per a translation of the developer’s Hong Kong web site, the Taipei-based workplace will “additional strengthen the enterprise basis within the Taiwan market and enhance the service high quality [for our] prospects. [We] will uphold the enterprise philosophy of Nintendo Group, and proceed to advertise enterprise improvement.”
This subsidiary will likely be Nintendo’s first workplace within the area in over a decade. Its earlier Taiwan offshoot, Nintendo Phuten, was shut down in 2014 after the corporate slashed its yearly forecast resulting from poor WiiU gross sales. Its operations had been then transferred over to Nintendo Hong Kong.
Nintendo Swap 2 is on the horizon
As NintendoLife notes, Nintendo has lately made an effort to reenter Taiwan’s recreation market, and appeared at 2024’s Taipei Recreation Present with a Nintendo Swap sales space.
On April 2, the day after Nintendo of Taiwan begins operations, Nintendo will maintain a livestream centered on the Nintendo Swap 2. The developer has beforehand expressed hope that the brand new console will make up for the current gross sales declines of its predecessor and keep away from any manufacturing issues when it will definitely releases later in 2025.
After the Swap 2’s reveal, Omdia analyst James McWhirter instructed Recreation Developer the agency expects the console to promote 14.7 million models in the course of the 2025-2026 calendar 12 months. Having a foothold in each market potential, Taiwan included, would go a manner in reaching (or surpassing) these expectations.
