In a livestream presentation on Friday, Nintendo have finally spilled everything that people will need to know about its upcoming new console, the Nintendo Switch. They will go out on sale on March 3 (for Japan, Hong Kong, European countries, Canada, United States, and other territories) for the price of $299.99USD.
The console will have a paid online service. As a way to welcome from its fresh release, Nintendo has offered the service for free until fall. The Switch’s online services allows you to chat with friends, play appointments, set up online game. The nice here is this: No region locked for all its games! The company has also confirmed that 80 games are currently in development for this console.
Here are the other features of the Nintendo Switch
- 2.6 to 6 hours of battery life (depending on the games that you play) - Chargable with a Type-C USB cable - Can connect to a total of eight consoles in LAN. - Joy-Con controllers have IR camera which you can sense distances from the sensor and hand shapes. - A custom NVIDIA Tegre processor with NVIDIA GPUYou can play games in several ways:
1) hold a detached Joy-Con controller in each hand,
2) use two controllers when they are attached directly to the main Switch device,
3) split the two controllers with a second player, or
4) attach the controllers to a Joy-Con Grip accessory.
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