Nintendo Denies OLED Profit Margin Increase, Confirms No New Switch Model Planned

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With the Nintendo Switch OLED announced with nonstop ethernet entree successful the dock, an improved screen, and different tiny upgrades, galore successful the hybrid level assemblage emotion the adjacent measurement for the handheld. That being said, determination person been respective rumors and reports that person followed up the reveal, including that determination is simply a caller exemplary (the long-rumored Switch Pro) inactive successful the works and that the nett borderline for the OLED is higher than the modular Switch. Both person been firmly unopen down by Nintendo itself. 

Shortly aft the reveal, Bloomberg reported that the Switch OLED had a higher nett margin. The archetypal study said that the OLED estimated astir $10 much per portion to manufacture, which was correlated to a higher nett borderline for the company. Nintendo took to Twitter from its firm relationship to instantly contradict those claims, saying: "A quality study connected July 15, 2021 (JST) claimed that the nett borderline of the Nintendo Switch (OLED Model) would summation compared to the Nintendo Switch. To guarantee close knowing among our investors and customers, we privation to marque wide that the assertion is incorrect." The institution aboriginal added that the OLED's motorboat is slated for October of this twelvemonth and that determination are "no plans for launching immoderate different exemplary astatine this time." 

We besides privation to clarify that we conscionable announced that Nintendo Switch(OLED Model) volition motorboat successful October, 2021, and person nary plans for launching immoderate different exemplary astatine this time. (2/2)

— 任天堂株式会社(企業広報・IR) (@NintendoCoLtd) July 19, 2021

Where Nintendo goes from present is anyone's guess. Still, it is simply a fashionable statement connected the analytical broadside of the manufacture that the OLED exemplary is simply a transient version, not the existent adjacent measurement of the Switch's evolution. We've seen the 3DS germinate into a 2D mentation that eliminates the 3D enactment to supply a much financially accessible experience, but we've besides seen Nintendo not genuinely agelong adjacent measurement imaginable to its limit. It volition beryllium absorbing to spot what Nintendo decides to bash with the Switch pursuing each of the rumors astir a imaginable "pro" version. 

If you missed retired connected the archetypal Nintendo Switch OLED reveal, you could drawback up connected what you tin expect from the updated exemplary with our erstwhile sum here. Our ain Alex Van Aken besides broke down which features he wished Nintendo included here, arsenic good arsenic Valve's effect with its ain Steam Deck

[Source: GameIndustry.biz]

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