Nintendo Switch Lite should help keep the system on top in the United States.
Nintendo Switch Lite should help keep the system on top in the United States.
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Nintendo President: Switch Lite isn’t cannibalizing the Switch

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa said in a briefing for analysts that the Nintendo Switch Lite isn’t cannibalizing sales of its older sibling Nintendo Switch.

The more compact and lightweight Switch Lite is a dedicated handheld which doesn’t dock to display games on a television, as the Switch can. It launched worldwide in September, and sales are strong.

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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.