After you have lifted the veil on its console hybrid, which is due for release in march, the japanese manufacturer must detail its catalog, and its positioning.
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Second trial balloon for the Switch, the next Nintendo console. The japanese manufacturer will take 5 hours in the night from Thursday 12 to Friday 13 December (French time) its first conference for the present, live from Tokyo. The machine, unveiled for the first time on 20 October, shall be the successor to the Wii U, commercial failure, with only 13.3 million units sold since 2012, compared with 101 million for the Wii.
Presented as a console hybrid lounge and nomad, the Switch must therefore be the console of the reconquest for the n° 1 in the world history of the sector. Nintendo, however, has remained very mysterious about the details of his new product. Here are the main themes on which the company is expected.
The concept of the Switch, a console that is scalable, usable both in the home, on a TV screen, or on the go, has been revealed with great fanfare in October. But Nintendo has not yet said anything of its social features and multimedia – one of the traditional weak points of the brand – or its ergonomics, accurate. According to a patent made public in December and relayed by employees of Nintendo, the Switch would be revived several classical components of a tablet, such as a multitouch touchscreen and a gyroscope.
In October, Nintendo has already shown video clips of a Mario Kart a Mario new, of a Splatoon, a game of basketball, NBA 2K or a role-playing game, famous, Skyrim, without announcing itself. A dozen titles, however, have already been formalized, either by Nintendo, or by the studios, respective, first and foremost the adventure game The Legend of Zelda : Breath of the Wild role-playing Dragon Quest X, and platform games Sonic 2017 and Yooka-Laylee, the authors of the Banjo & Kazooie.
Just Dance 2017, Stardew Valley or Shovel Knight will also be. Nintendo is betting, however, on a very rich catalog, and many games unreleased should be presented at this conference for the first time, including third-party vendors. Nintendo France expects to tweet every announcement in French on his official twitter, hinting that they will be numerous.
the output of The Switch is long-planned for the end of the last quarter of the fiscal year in japan, which closes on 31 march. It should happen within a few weeks, even days preceding.
This will be one of the most monitored, even if it is assumed that Nintendo will not disclose its tariff of the european, as was his habit. In Japan, the business daily Nikkei has suggested investors to expect a price of 25 000 yen (about 200 euros) – price classical of all the consoles of the brand in the archipelago for over two decades.
In the West, many stores have referenced the machine at a price of $ 250 or 250 euros, a price which is credible, but that is for the moment of pure “placeholder” (occupation of land) : the merchant sites need to display a price for each product, even if it is not known, and do not hesitate to us to deduce what seems to them most likely when they do not yet have the information. With its Wii U, launched in two models-250 and 320 euro, Nintendo had caught everyone short. Ubisoft had down the price too high for the machine.
The Wall Street Journal points out that any higher price to 250 euros, console, nude, or 300 € with a game, could be considered to be excessive and prejudicial to the commercial career of the Switch. An update of its price on the merchant’s websites should lift the veil on the day of January 13.
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