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[-] TAG@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Switch was announced via a tweet in 2016, only a handful of months before the console’s release

If that was true, it would give the article some more believability. Unfortunately, the author did not fact check, even on Wikipedia. Nintendo announced that they were working on a new console exactly 2 year before it was released (https://web.archive.org/web/20161020234649/http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-03-17-nintendo-nx-is-new-hardware-with-a-brand-new-concept) and had announced the release 10.5 months before the system came out (https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/herocomplex/la-et-hc-nintendo-dates-its-successor-to-the-wii-u-the-nx-20160427-story.html ).

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