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Alex Raisbeck

Veteran analyst is optimistic about Switch 2, hopes it will "more clearly communicate how this is different than the Switch" than the Wii U did with Wii

Nintendo Switch with Super Mario Wonder on screen.

With the follow-up to the Nintendo Switch reportedly set to release in 2025, Nintendo will be looking to avoid repeating the mistakes made during the Wii U's launch, according to one games industry analyst.

The Wii was an astounding success for Nintendo, having sold more than 100 million units across its lifetime, with its sales making the relative commercial failure of its successor, the Wii U, all the more apparent. Over a decade on, many now blame Nintendo's inability to effectively communicate the Wii U as a successor console, something that Mat Piscatella, executive director of games industry market research firm Circana, claims Nintendo will be keen to remedy with the Switch 2. 

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