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Nintendo Switch draws mixed reactions from analysts

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Nintendo announced its pricing ($300) and launch date (March 3) for the Nintendo Switch hybrid home game console and portable last night. We contacted some game analysts to get their reaction to it.

Nintendo hasn’t released every detail yet, particularly about the inner workings of the Switch. But the events last night and this morning have given analyst plenty to talk about. Analysts believe it won’t be hard to outsell the Wii U, but they have mixed reactions about the trade-offs in the hybrid portable-home-console device. Here’s some comments from analysts about the Switch:

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.