Coral coloured Switch Lite dated for Europe
New colour handheld will launch in April
Nintendo of Europe will launch the coral coloured Switch Lite on April 24, 2020.
It was previously confirmed that the coral Switch Lite will debut in Japan on March 20 before releasing in the US on April 3.
Excluding special editions like the Pokémon Zacian and Zamazenta Switch Lite, the handheld has been available in three colours since its September 2019 launch: yellow, grey and turquoise.
Worldwide Switch shipments have exceeded 52 million units since the flagship console released in March 2017. The lifetime total includes over five million Switch Lite systems sold worldwide by December 31, 2019.
Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa told investors in November 2019 that Switch Lite is attracting a higher percentage of female first-time buyers than the flagship model did prior to the handheld’s release.
“Furthermore,” he said, “the pool of consumers purchasing Nintendo Switch Lite during the initial launch period includes not only users purchasing it as their first system, but also a good number of consumers purchasing it as their second system from the Nintendo Switch family.”
The platform holder is reportedly planning to host a pair of Nintendo Direct presentations this month, ending a six-month wait since the last full Direct broadcast.
