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The Nintendo Switch presentation is just a week away at the time of writing, and Nintendo of Europe has sent out a reminder with a couple of interesting remarks. It reinforces the fact that the broadcast is very much based out of Japan, as opposed to the approach of subsidiaries taking the lead - as previously seen in streams such as Nintendo Direct presentations.

As a reminder, in North America the stream is at 8pm Pacific / 11pm Eastern on 12th January, which is 4am UK / 5am CET / 1pm Tokyo / 3pm AEDT on 13th January. The press release makes clear that it'll be in Japanese with an English voiceover, with regional social media sharing details as always.

Find out more about Nintendo Switch by watching the Nintendo Switch Presentation 2017, live from Tokyo. Visit www.nintendo.co.uk/switch on Friday January 13th, at 4 a.m. (UK time) to hear about new Nintendo Switch details you won't want to miss!

The livestream will be broadcast in Japanese with English voiceover, and key announcements will be published in on the official Nintendo UK Twitter account.

Naturally, the hope is for plenty of detail, and we've seen in the past that even with localised voiceovers different regions have variations in terms of release dates and prices that are displayed on screen, even when the core broadcast is ultimately the same on a global basis.

Not long to wait, in any case. We're getting ready for the usual build-up, live stream / blog and then post-broadcast news and reactions; it's almost here.