A customer purchases Nintendo Switch game console at a shop in Tokyo on March 3, 2017. Nintendo's new game console, Switch is put on the Japanese market from March 3, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA
Nintendo Co’s test of whether it can combine mobile and home gaming with a single machine begins on March 3 with the debut of Switch, its next-generation console.
Stores in Tokyo began selling a limited number of units early, with brisk sales around the city and few signs of supply constraints. Deliveries of pre-orders will make up the rest of the 2 million units slated to be available in the first month.
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