Switch pro news1/11/2024 ![]() ![]() Instead, Nintendo has often followed E3 with minor to major hardware announcements weeks or months later. ![]() Hardware reveals haven’t been part of Nintendo’s E3 plan for nearly a decade now. Nintendo has held virtual presentations, both packaged Nintendo Direct videos and Treehouse Live streams, at E3s since. ![]() The company seems to have learned that lesson a long time ago, in the wake of the disastrous E3 2012 reveal of the Wii U and the E3 2010 reveal of the Nintendo 3DS, which stumbled out of the gate so badly that Nintendo slashed the price of the handheld a few months after launch.Į3 2012 was the last time Nintendo held a traditional press conference at the gaming industry expo - the type of presentation where executives stand on a stage and hold up a video game console for the first time. Nintendo didn’t do that, of course, because Nintendo knows better than to showcase its next major hardware release at E3. Mere weeks before E3 2021 kicked off, Bloomberg reported that we could see the new 4K-ready “Switch Pro,” as some are calling it, before June 12 “to allow publishers to showcase their full range of Switch games.” Some Nintendo fans and industry watchers came away from Tuesday’s Nintendo Direct perplexed that the company didn’t roll out a new Nintendo Switch model, which has been heavily rumored and reported for the better part of a year. ![]()
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