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Nintendo confirms plans to bring the Switch to China with Tencent, doesn't have a specific release date nailed down
Rather than letting the rumors continue on, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa has confirmed plans to bring the Switch to China with Tencent. Mr. Furukawa explained why teaming with Tencent was the best path forward, but he didn't have release date info to share.
“Tencent controls the biggest foundation in both China’s markets for net communications and games. We can maximize our business expansion in China by working with them. But as we haven’t announced a launch date, we are not including it in our forecasts.”
“Our current applications are just for the hardware, but we’ll also need inspections of our software. We will need many more applications to the government and others, so from that perspective the launch period is still unknown.”
This statement from Furukawa coincides with an official announcement on Nintendo's website.