While 2023 was a banner year for Nintendo – The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom made sure of that – 2024 has overall been somewhat quieter for the company. My initial impulse from January 2024 on what to expect from Nintendo this year as "who knows?" turned out to be shockingly prescient. I mean, who could have predicted that Nintendo would, in fact, release new hardware this year… in the form of Nintendo Alarmo, a proprietary alarm clock with music and motion sensors.
That might sound a bit flippant, but it's also simply just true. Nintendo did in fact release Nintendo Alarmo this year at a time when everyone from investors to players to journalists like myself are essentially just waiting for the company to actually reveal whatever the successor to the Nintendo Switch ends up being. We know it exists, but we don't even have an official name yet; momentum does appear to be building behind "Switch 2," however, even if I would personally much prefer "Super Nintendo Switch" because, well, I'm old.
