Nintendo: 'Nintendo Switch is a Home Gaming System First and Foremost' - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 20 October 2016 / 10,723 Views
The Nintendo Switch is a home gaming console, as well as a handheld that is powered by custom NVIDIA Tegra technology. However, Nintendo is making sure that people know that the Switch is a gaming console first and a handheld second.
"Nintendo Switch is a home gaming system first and foremost," Nintendo told Polygon. "We have made no announcement regarding the future of Nintendo 3DS.
"Obviously with sales of almost 60 million 3DS portables worldwide, there’s still a huge hunger for new games, such as Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon. There are many more games in the pipeline."
"We have nothing to announce about the production status of Wii U," Nintendo added. "We announced in April 2016 that as we prepare for the launch of Nintendo Switch in March of 2017, Nintendo will ship 800,000 Wii U hardware units to the global market for this fiscal year. As a result, the inventory of Wii U hardware at retail will become harder to find.
"We encourage anyone who wants Wii U to communicate with their preferred retail outlet to monitor availability."
The Nintendo Switch already has a long lineup of publishers, developers and middleware partners that are currently working on it.
The Nintendo Switch launches in March 2017.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.