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NEWS: Nintendo Switch Launches on March 3 for US$299.99

It keeps behind the other two technologically because it doesn't care about the specs race.

The NES was a generation behind and destroyed the other systems of its generation.

I have yet to meet a single person who uses more than 30GB of their harddrive.

They were also against the Wii and that turned out to be a massive household hit.

A better question is why do you think 300 bucks for a brand new console is outrageously high but give the PS4s 500 dollar launch price a pass?

Of a console or a phone?

Yeah if you disregard most it's sucess was owed to Nintendo chasing after demographic that they didn't come back for the WiiU

....Don't you mean the PS3? which was actually 600 & 500 dollars.

Which is relevant...how? My point is that investors don't actually know shit what makes a good console.

The 720p resolution of the portable display is great and but it apparently won´t replace the 3DS in the long run, due to the mediocre battery life. We will need a new Nintendo portable soon-ish though...The 3D is 6 years old!

It costs too much, the 'portable' branding will prevent people from paying that much money (especially after a decade of the DS prices as being the standard)

And lets not forget its massive 32gb hardrive, Ie smaller than a lot of phones. And before you say well you can buy an external harddrive, no it only take microsd cards. And then that would increase the consoles price point even before buying a single game, to close to 400.

No, it will definitely be replacing the 3DS. The main point of the Switch is to consolidate both Nintendo's portable and home console development divisions to allow for more frequent title releases and less dry spells that would so often affect the 3DS and Wii U. The system's range of 2.5-6 hours isn't much worse than most other portable devices in the market (including smartphones), but we all deal with it. And I'm absolutely positive that we'll be seeing plenty of peripheral attachments that add a decent amount of extra battery life to the system in the future. Plus it's USB-C, which is great in terms of how easy and efficient it will be to quickly charge it in the future when it's the common connector.

I'm genuinely surprised that the vast majority of people on here seem to be genuinely positive regarding the Switch and excited for it. It seemed like it pretty much dropped out of favor with a ton of people elsewhere on the internet after that admittedly hit-or-miss presentation (especially IGN's boards). I do hope this ends up being a success for Nintendo, I want to see them prosper again. That said, there are definitely some delicate lines that they're walking on after the whole debacle with the Wii U, and I hope they're prepared to handle them properly. I'm definitely cautiously optimistic about the piece of hardware, and Zelda is really tempting me to preorder the thing, something I've never done with any console before.

No, it will definitely be replacing the 3DS. The main point of the Switch is to consolidate both Nintendo's portable and home console development divisions to allow for more frequent title releases and less dry spells that would so often affect the 3DS and Wii

The system's range of 2.5-6 hours isn't much worse than most other portable devices in the market (including smartphones), but we all deal with it. And I'm absolutely positive that we'll be seeing plenty of peripheral attachments that add a decent amount of extra battery life to the system in the future.

But since the console takes cartridge media and there won't be storage eating installs and downloads,

you probably won't be filling up your space nearly as much as you would with the Xbox One or PS4, unless you do a lot of digital downloading, but even a 128GB should be sufficient enough in that regard.

Was surprised by the complete lack of launch titles that were shown during the Nintendo stream last night. Also has there been any clarification on the "download and play one game for free for a month" line on their website? Will it be like other console subscriptions where you keep the title for as long as you pay for the subscription or will it actually disappear after a month?

It seems like Nintendo has finally reached the current nickel-and-dimey epoch of gaming,