Nintendo Switch Boxes Are Shrinking
The Nintendo Switch has been on the market for over five years now. That’s enough time for many to start getting eager to see what’s next. And although recent updates from Nintendo suggest they shouldn’t expect new Switch hardware any time soon, fans will find something new and Switch-related on retail shelves in the near future, because Nintendo is reducing the size of the boxes its portable home console is being packaged in.
Video games have been a major chunk of the entertainment industry for a while now, and that success has naturally brought difficulties when it comes to meeting the overwhelming demand for new games and consoles. It can be a struggle at the best of times, and these days, with all the issues that have arisen in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, manufacturers have been having an especially rough time of it.
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As such, Nintendo is taking steps to streamline its process. Nikkei reports that the company will be shrinking the size of Switch boxes by 20%. This move is meant to improve efficiency by creating more available space when shipping consoles. The result is that Nintendo should be able to ship more consoles at once, while retailers should subsequently be able to fit more Switches on store shelves thanks to the smaller boxes.
This is hardly a new thing for Nintendo. In the past, the company did something similar with the 3DS by releasing later models without AC adapters so they could fit into smaller boxes. And the company has already been reducing packaging size for the Switch line with the Nintendo Switch OLED model released last year, so it makes sense that the company would eventually do the same with the base model.
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