
An attendee uses a Nintendo Switch game console while playing a video game at the Paris Games Week (PGW), a trade fair for video games in Paris, France, October 29, 2019. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/Files
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Nintendo will launch a new model of its Switch video game console with an upgraded display on Oct. 8, priced at $349.99, it said on Tuesday.
The Kyoto-based company's second major Switch upgrade, which has a 7-inch organic light-emitting diode (OLED) screen, is intended to help drive demand into the year-end shopping season.
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