Update: Not intentional – Nintendo says Switch was intentionally designed to take on the appearance of a dog

Update: Welp, the dream is dead. The Wall Street journalist reporter Takashi Mochizuki has now clarified that Koizumi merely acknowledged that the Joy-Cons look like a puppy, not that it was intentional. A direct quote probably would have helped in this situation!

Original: After Nintendo revealed Switch last year, some fans noticed that the the system takes on the appearance of a puppy. It’s particularly evident when the Joy-Cons are connected to the Charging Grip.

Amazingly, this was actually intentional. The Wall Street Journal mentioned to Nintendo’s Yoshiaki Koizumi that the Joy-Cons look like a dog, who responded by saying that he knew. Koizumi added that’s what his team was thinking when making Switch.

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