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Nintendo keen to continue Switch's hybrid handheld and home console focus to keep down development costs

Nintendo is keen to keep the Switch's dual focus of being both a gaming handheld and home console "to carry over the ex…

Nintendo is keen to keep the Switch's dual focus of being both a gaming handheld and home console "to carry over the experience we have already built" and reduce development costs in future, it's said. Speaking to investors, Nintendo exec Ko Shiota said the company's current Switch hardware had benefited from the "merging" of software teams previously focused on developing for separate portable and home console platforms - such as in the era of 3DS and Wii U. "With the current technology it is possible to create fun games with a small number of developers in a short period of time," Miyamoto concluded.

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