Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Thursday, May 27, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.

An upgraded Nintendo Switch is maybe days away from being announced.

Twitter Spaces can now happen on the desktop.

The behind the scenes details of the MGM by Snowflake

has left Silicon Valley for checking notes, Montana, and Clubhouse makes a high profile

higher that shows their still full steam ahead.

Here's what you miss today in the world of Tech. Sources are telling Bloomberg that Nintendo plans to announce an upgraded switch console

ahead of the June E3 conference, which is mere weeks away.

It won't get released until September or October.

And given the global supply chain issues we've been having,

maybe we'll actually be able to get one in our hands by the end of the decade, quoting

Bloomberg.

The new console likely to be priced higher than the $299 original may be announced ahead of the E3 conference starting June 12 to allow

publishers to showcase their full range of switch games at the global event, the people

said, asking not to be named because the plans are not yet public.

It will be sold alongside the $199 switch light with the standard switch phased out over time.

Assemblers will start shipping the new model whose commercial name is known only to a

handful of people within the Kyoto-based company as early as July and production is planned to

ramp up to a peak in the October through December

quarter. This is despite widespread semiconductor shortages that have affected the

supply of everything from automobiles to TVs, headphones game consoles, including the switch itself.

Pricier components and rising labor costs in China are likely to push the new switch's

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