Soundwave on 16 January 2025
Yeah I think the date is May 9th (2nd Friday of May) or May 16th, 2025.
These hands on events are meant to go right into the product launch Switch 1 Tour Dates from 2017 were:
Nintendo Switch 2017 Pre-Release Tour
New York – January 13th–15th
Toronto – January 27th–29th
Washington, DC – February 10th–12th
Chicago – February 17th–19th
San Francisco – February 24th–26th
Los Angeles – March 3rd–5th
They did their Switch blow out Nintendo Direct on Jan 13th, 2017 and then you can see the hands on tour went live immediately in New York City.
Switch launched on March 3rd. I think you don't want too big of a window between this hands on experience and the launch, you want people to try it, get excited and be able to buy it fairly soon thereafter.
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