Start Playing a Nintendo Switch!

Everything you need to know about the Switch, Nintendo’s unique new video game console Nintendo used a three-minute video to reveal its latest hardware this morning, firing the starting gun on the ninth generation of video game consoles – and it turns out to be pretty much exactly what everyone thought it would be. As has long been rumored, the Nintendo Switch is a hybrid system that features a (fairly chunky) iPad Mini-like tablet that can either be plugged into a base station for TV gaming sessions or connected to its innovative controllers for on-the-go play. At first blush, it closely resembled Nvidia’s gaming tablet, the Shield – and in fact uses the same chipset to power its graphics. The reveal video began with fan-favorite  The Legend of Zelda: The Breath of the Wild  and showed a seamless transition of play from couch to local park, with the player simply picking up the tablet from its base station by the TV and sliding it between the two parts of the ...