During these last hours, Nintendo e Tencent held a conference of about two hours to announce in detail the plans prepared for the expected and talked about launch of Nintendo Switch on Chinese territory - of which, however, the price and official launch date are not yet known -, an important opportunity for the large N and for his console.
First of all it was announced that Tencent will be in charge of locating the various Nintendo exclusives in simplified Chinese. The first two titles that will enjoy a total translation will be the highly appreciated Mario Odyssey e The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, games that alone will surely be able to drive the sales of the hybrid console. Furthermore, Tencent has declared that it will also take care of hosting the various online services of Switch on Chinese territory, an absolutely necessary action given that in the rest of the world Nintendo uses the infrastructures of Google, a company that has been completely blocked in China. Finally, it was announced that Nintendo eShop will accept payments with WeChat Pay, a messaging platform owned by Tencent.
