Enlarge / We can only hope this fan concept art is the kind of thing Nintendo President Tatsumi Kimishima means when he talks about a “wider array” of add-on hardware for the system. (credit: Ryan Salamanda)

Immediately after announcing that further Nintendo Switch announcements would have to wait until January 12, Nintendo President Tatsumi Kimishima let slip a few more details about the system in an interview with Bloomberg.

Chief among those tidbits: a promise that Nintendo is working on a good deal of physical add-ons for the Switch. “It may be appropriate to call them accessories. Or it might be better to call them add-on hardware,” Kimishima said. “It’s probably more correct to call them accessories. You can assume that there will be a wider array.”

We can only hope that this cryptic statement is referring to customized Joy-Con controllers that can replace the standard detachable Switch controllers, as seen in this fan concept from back in August. Then again, maybe Nintendo is planning on plug-in additions that add directly to the power of the console, à la the old Famicom Disk System or 64DD. Or maybe it just means boring stuff like expanded battery packs and carrying cases.