July 07, 2021
published at 12:58 AMReuters
An attendee uses a Nintendo Switch game console while playing a video game at the Paris Games Week (PGW), a trade fair for video games in Paris, France, on Oct 29, 2019.
Reuters
TOKYO, July 6 (Reuters) - Japan's Nintendo will launch a new model of its Switch video game console with an upgraded display on Oct. 8, priced at $349.99 (S$472), it said on Tuesday (July 6).
The Kyoto-based company's second major Switch upgrade, which has a 7-inch organic light-emitting diode (OLED) screen, is intended to help drive demand into the year-end shopping season.
Nintendo has sold 85 million units of its $299.99 hybrid home/portable Switch device and the $199.99 handheld-only Switch Lite, with sales boosted by a rise in gaming during the Covid-19 pandemic.