Nintendo has thrown Switch players a long-awaited bone alongside announcing its end-of-year financials results, confirming the console’s successor will be unveiled before April, 2025. Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa said that a next-generation Nintendo Switch console will be announced “within this fiscal year” — giving the Japanese gaming giant a deadline of March 31st, 2025. That aligns nicely with its current Q1 2025 rumored launch.
Pakistan
Alleged rigging in polls: ECP to release inquiry report
The Election Commission will strictly follow the recommendations of the inquiry report
Islamabad: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has decided to release the inquiry report on the allegations of rigging in the general elections by Commissioner Rawalpindi Liaquat Ali Chattha.
According to media reports, great progress has been made regarding the allegations of Commissioner Rawalpindi. The inquiry report will be presented in the commission meeting before making it public. The Election Commission will strictly follow the recommendations of the inquiry report.
The ECP had established a one-member committee for the investigation which conducted the inquiry under the chairmanship of Member Sindh Nisar Durrani.
According to the Election Commission, the report contains the statements of District Returning Officers (DROs) and Returning Officers (ROs). Commissioner Rawalpindi Liaquat Chattha had also submitted a written statement to the committee.
It is pertinent to note that former Commissioner Rawalpindi Liaquat Ali had announced his resignation from the post, alleging serious irregularities in the elections.
Later, the spokesperson of the Election Commission and the Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa strongly denied the allegations of the former Rawalpindi Commissioner.
Technology
Switch 2 will be revealed before April 2025, promises Nintendo
Nintendo has thrown Switch players a long-awaited bone alongside its end-of-year financials results, confirming the console’s successor will be unveiled by March 31st, 2025.
Regarding the Switch 2 console announcement, Furukawa said:
We will make an announcement about the successor to Nintendo Switch within this fiscal year. It will have been over nine years since we announced the existence of Nintendo Switch back in March 2015. We will be holding a Nintendo Direct this June regarding the Nintendo Switch software lineup for the latter half of 2024, but please be aware that there will be no mention of the Nintendo Switch successor during that presentation.
Meanwhile, Nintendo’s forecast signals an anticipated slowdown in Switch console sales, projecting to sell 13.5 million Switch consoles this year compared to the 15.7 million units sold the previous fiscal year. Net profit during the upcoming year is also expected to fall by 39 percent, alongside a projected 19 percent fall in revenue.
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Switch console sales have slipped substantially since their peak in 2021, while the OLED model — the most recent version of the now near-decade-old console — enjoyed a small 1.1 percent bump in sales year over year. The number of users for the platform remains healthy though, with Nintendo claiming the 123 million annual players recorded between April 2023 and March 2024 were the “highest seen since Nintendo Switch was launched.”
Nintendo hasn’t given up on the current generation of Switch consoles, however. In its forecast the company said it will “try to not only put one system in every home, but several in every home, or even one for every person.”
Pakistan
Police baton-charge, arrest lawyers protesting outside LHC
A heavy contingent of police closed the main gate of the Lahore High Court building and erected barricades
Lahore: Police Wednesday raided the protest rally of lawyers outside the Lahore High Court (LHC).
Lawyers took out a protest rally from the House of Justice to the LHC on the issue of transfer of civil courts to Model Town court and cases against lawyers.
There was a clash between the police and protesting lawyers at GPO Chowk, as a result of which the police canned the protestors and fired teargas shells, the police also used water cannons to disperse the protestors.
The police also arrested the lawyers participating in the protest. The lawyers removed the barriers outside the GPO Chowk and the High Court and also pelted the police with stones as a result of which Station House Officer (SHO) Akhtar got injured.
Due to the clash between the protesting lawyers and the police, the traffic system on Mall Road has become disrupted while there is heavy traffic pressure on the surrounding roads.
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