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Nintendo Switch Release Date: March 3, 2017

Nintendo Switch Official Details Revealed In Tonight’s Broadcast

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Nintendo just ended their broadcast for the Nintendo Switch where they finally announced the details we were waiting for.

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Console Details:

Launch Date: March 3, 2017
MSRP: $299.99
Online Service: Free for the first few months then transitioning to paid service; Integrates with your “smart device”
No more region locking for games!
Battery life 2.5hrs – 6.5hrs
Touch screen confirmed
Local Multiplayer over wifi (up to 8 systems connected to each other locally at a time)
Right Joycon reads Amiibo
Left Joycon captures images and (later) video
Each Joycon has independent motion control sensors
HD Rumble precision will allow you to “feel ice cubes in a glass” and liquid poured into a glass as well
Pro Controller available separately
Two models: One with black Joycon, and one with Blue/Red Joycon

Nintendo Switch Games

  • 1-2-Switch game uses no screen, only the Joycon
  • ARMS is played using one Joycon in each hand to punch

At this point I was starting to panic a little… the above two games looked like complete garbage.

  • Splatoon 2 – Releases Summer 2017 (Looks fun, we liked the first Splatoon)
  • Super Mario Odyssey – Sandbox world, Holiday 2017 (effing eff eff…)

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  • Fire Emblem Warriors
  • Skyrim confirmed – This matters for two reasons: (1) Bethesda working with Nintendo, and (2) It’s essentially a HANDHELD Elder Scrolls game.
  • Mario Kart 8 Deluxe in April
  • 80+ games in development (hopefully more than remakes, releases, and garbageware)

Most importantly… (and they waited until the last possible second to tell us)

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Zelda: Breath of the Wild launches March 3, 2017 on the Switch’s launch date!!!! That trailer they showed was SO GOOD! I’m so dang hyped for this launch. Anyone saying the graphics and gameplay don’t look great is beyond out of their mind.

Looks like the launch lineup will be pretty good. Nintendo Switch’s success depends on the true support of third-party developers BUT ALSO their first-party game development. They screwed us with the Wii U by making almost zero games. That was horrifically heinous on their part, and I’m hoping they actually support this system.

  • Pretty sad this system still isn’t as strong as the PS4.. any third party games will have to lower their graphics for sure. Zelda breath of wild looks so low quality and blurry/pixelated over something like FFXV or Uncharted 4. That was a problem with the WiiU the system specs were so weak nobody would port games to it.

    • I’m not sure what video you’re watching, but the Breath of the Wild videos I’ve seen aren’t blurry or pixelated… ?

      The graphics are cell shaded and stylized compared to something aiming for more realism. Is that what you mean?

  • Maybe you’re not the target demographic, but I don’t know why you thought ARMS was complete garbage. It looks like a decent enough fighting game to me.