New Nintendo Switch

Alejandro Haro, Staff Writer

The Nintendo Switch, the company’s seventh major home console, is an upcoming hybrid video game console developed by Nintendo. Officially unveiled in October 2016, it is currently scheduled for release worldwide in March 2017.

The Switch is a tablet-like portable console, which can be inserted into a docking station connected to a television for use as a home console. Despite this characteristic, Nintendo markets the Switch primarily as a home console rather than as a portable.The main unit of the console is the Switch Console, a battery powered tablet-like monitor that consists of a LED screen, a 3.5 mm audio jack, and a kickstand. The gaming system has slots on its side, into which the Joy-Con controllers can be slid when removed from the base. It also has included a slot for a game card to be installed or removed.

But with those features, can the Nintendo Switch survive in a world with the PS4 and XBox One dominating in the video game industry? In the gaming universe, the Nintendo Wii is a joke when compared to the Playstation 4 or Xbox One. Microsoft has sold 19 to 20 million Xbox One units. Sony has sold over 40 million Playstation 4s worldwide. The Nintendo Switch can surely compete with both consoles with many cool features offered by the switch.

With the Switch, it lets you choose your control style. As released by Nintendo, there is multiple ways to play with the controller so that can adapt to your gaming style. The switch also allows you to play multiplayer practically anywhere, since it’s both a home console and a portable. Upon learning that the Nintendo Switch is also a portable console, you may be worried about how that graphics and speed will compete with the Xbox or PS4, but there is no need to worry since NVIDIA announced that they were the ones behind the Switch’s graphic system.

So if you want to relax and play from a wide range of classic game franchises including but not limited to: Project Sonic 2017, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of Wind, and NBA 2K17, the Nintendo Switch is your gaming console. The Switch enhances your gaming experience by making the game go wherever you go and allows multiplayers on the tablet-like screen so that you can share the amazing gaming of what is the Nintendo Switch.