Nintendo's stock fell as the Japanese giant failed to impress with a brief video preview of its new Switch 2 console.
In morning trading in Tokyo, Nintendo shares fell 5.67 percent to 9,046.00 yen ($58.28) after earlier dropping more than 6 percent.
The previous Switch was the third best-selling console in history behind Sony's PlayStation 2 and Nintendo's DS. It has sold more than 146 million units since its launch in 2017.
Announcing that the Switch 2 would be coming this year, Nintendo didn't give many details about the new gadget, including pricing, saying more would be revealed at a livestreamed event on April 2.
In a sleek two-minute video, the new console looks larger but similar in design to the original Switch hybrid, which can be held in the hand or connected to a TV screen.
The screen is larger, as are the redesigned "joy-con" controllers, which attach with magnets rather than sliding into place as with the old device.
The video also showed a new version of the long-running Mario Kart series on both the new console's built-in screen and on a TV. The latest installment of the game, "Mario Kart 8," has sold more than 64 million copies. | BGNES, AFP