Nintendo Reveals The Nintendo Switch

After months and months of speculation and rumors Nintendo has finally come out and showed us a sneak peek at their upcoming console, The Nintendo Switch. It is a hybrid handheld and home console so you can bring your game out on the streets with your friends and bring multiple controllers to play with. The console for sure uses Cartridges, The 2 detachable controllers on the Switch are called Joy-Con controllers.
One player can use a Joy-Con controller in each hand; two players can each take one; or multiple Joy-Con can be employed by numerous people for a variety of gameplay options. They can easily click back into place or be slipped into a Joy-Con Grip accessory, mirroring a more traditional controller. Or, if preferred, the gamer can select an optional Nintendo Switch Pro Controller to use instead of the Joy-Con controllers.

“Nintendo Switch allows gamers the freedom to play however they like,” said Reggie Fils-Aime, President and COO, Nintendo of America. “It gives game developers new abilities to bring their creative visions to life by opening up the concept of gaming without boundaries.”

The Nintendo Switch will aim to support eSports as shown in the trailer for games like Splatoon and obviously Super Smash Bros. one of Nintendos best competitive games.



The games shown in the reveal were Skyrim, NBA 2K17, Mario Kart, Splatoon at an eSports event, and Zelda. Nintendo has 3rd party support for sure with Take-Two, Bethesda, Activision, EA, Telltale, Square Enix, Epic Games and more.

A new Mario game was also shown in this trailer and it looks like Amiibo support will be on the Switch as well. It looks like a new Mario Kart game could be coming on its way.


The Nintendo Switch will be powered by the performance of the custom Tegra processor, includes a GPU that is based on the same architecture as top performing GeForce cards.

We’ve optimized the full suite of hardware and software for gaming and mobile use cases. This includes custom operating system integration with the GPU to increase both performance and efficiency

 
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Project NX was announced by Iwata back in March 2015 since then the company has briefly talked about it.