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Nintendo to unveil Switch console’s price and details on January 12

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima announced today that major details about the Nintendo Switch home-and-tablet game console will be shared at a January 12 event called the Nintendo Switch Presentation 2017.

Fans have so far only been treated to a three-minute video showing off the Nintendo Switch, which is the successor to the failed Wii U console introduced in 2012. Now Nintendo will fill in more of the blanks, including the launch date and pricing for the Switch, during the January event in Tokyo. Nintendo will also show the line-up of games that are currently in development for the console.

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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.