Nintendo has finally decided to show off their new "home gaming system", code-name NX. It's time to see what Nintendo has up their sleeves and put all the rumors to rest.
GBAtemp will covering the announcement and the OP will be updated as new information rolls in from the preview. Remember, the video starts at 9AM Central Standard Time, so be sure to watch, and discuss your thoughts here!

Nintendo Official Site

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It's called the Nintendo Switch. Rumors are true, it's a tablet with connectable buttons that you can play at home and on the go. Console Controller looks similar to the Xbox One's. Has small little remotes and supports multiplayer. NBA game being shown. 3D Mario title. When you connect the portable controllers the system goes from console to portable. Skyrim and Splatoon shown. Still coming March next year.

Press Release​

Detachable Controllers Reinvent Gaming

REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- In an introductory video released today, Nintendo provided the first glimpse of its new home gaming system and revealed that it is called Nintendo Switch. In addition to providing single and multiplayer thrills at home, the Nintendo Switch system also enables gamers to play the same title wherever, whenever and with whomever they choose. The mobility of a handheld is now added to the power of a home gaming system to enable unprecedented new video game play styles.

At home, Nintendo Switch rests in the Nintendo Switch Dock that connects the system to the TV and lets you play with family and friends in the comfort of your living room. By simply lifting Nintendo Switch from the dock, the system will instantly transition to portable mode, and the same great gaming experience that was being enjoyed at home now travels with you. The portability of Nintendo Switch is enhanced by its bright high-definition display. It brings the full home gaming system experience with you to the park, on an airplane, in a car, or to a friend’s apartment.

Gaming springs into action by removing detachable Joy-Con controllers from either side of Nintendo Switch. One player can use a Joy-Con controller in each hand; two players can each take one; or multiple Joy-Con can be employed by numerous people for a variety of gameplay options. They can easily click back into place or be slipped into a Joy-Con Grip accessory, mirroring a more traditional controller. Or, if preferred, the gamer can select an optional Nintendo Switch Pro Controller to use instead of the Joy-Con controllers. Furthermore, it is possible for numerous people to bring their Nintendo Switch systems together to enjoy local multiplayer face-to-face competition.

“Nintendo Switch allows gamers the freedom to play however they like,” said Reggie Fils-Aime, President and COO, Nintendo of America. “It gives game developers new abilities to bring their creative visions to life by opening up the concept of gaming without boundaries.”

Developers can design their games supporting a variety of play styles, which gives gamers the freedom to choose an experience that best suits them. Some of the publishers, developers and middleware partners announcing support for Nintendo Switch are as follows:

Companies that will support the Switch
505 Games
• LEVEL-5 Inc.
• Activision Publishing, Inc.
• Marvelous Inc.
• ARC SYSTEM WORKS Co., Ltd.
• Maximum Games, LLC
• ATLUS CO., LTD.
• Nippon Ichi Software, Inc.
• Audiokinetic Inc.
• Parity Bit Inc.
• Autodesk, Inc.
• PlatinumGames Inc.
• BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc.
• RAD Game Tools, Inc.
• Bethesda
• RecoChoku Co., Ltd.
• CAPCOM CO., LTD.
• SEGA Games Co., Ltd.
• Codemasters®
• Silicon Studio Corporation
• CRI Middleware Co., Ltd.
• Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
• DeNA Co., Ltd.
• SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
• Electronic Arts
• Starbreeze Studios
• Epic Games Inc.
• Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.
• Firelight Technologies
• Telltale Games
• FromSoftware, Inc.
• THQ Nordic
• Frozenbyte
• Tokyo RPG Factory Co., Ltd.
• GameTrust
• TT Games
• GRASSHOPPER MANUFACTURE INC.


• UBISOFT
• Gungho Online Entertainment, Inc.
• Ubitus Inc.
• HAMSTER Corporation
• Unity Technologies, Inc.
• Havok
• Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
• INTI CREATES CO., LTD.
• Web Technology Corp

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It will be powered by a custom Nvidia Tegra chip.

Nintendo Switch is powered by the performance of the custom Tegra processor. The high-efficiency scalable processor includes an NVIDIA GPU based on the same architecture as the world’s top-performing GeForce gaming graphics cards.

Nvidia Blog

Nintendo Switch Site

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Nintendo First Look​

The detachable controllers are called Joy-Con controllers.

Gaming springs into action by removing detachable Joy-Con controllers from either side of Nintendo Switch. One player can use a Joy-Con controller in each hand; two players can each take one; or multiple Joy-Con can be employed by numerous people for a variety of gameplay options. They can easily click back into place or be slipped into a Joy-Con Grip accessory, mirroring a more traditional controller. Or, if preferred, the gamer can select an optional Nintendo Switch Pro Controller to use instead of the Joy-Con controllers. Furthermore, it is possible for numerous people to bring their Nintendo Switch systems together to enjoy local multiplayer face-to-face competition.

“Nintendo Switch allows gamers the freedom to play however they like,” said Reggie Fils-Aime, President and COO, Nintendo of America. “It gives game developers new abilities to bring their creative visions to life by opening up the concept of gaming without boundaries.”

Developers can design their games supporting a variety of play styles, which gives gamers the freedom to choose an experience that best suits them. Some of the publishers, developers and middleware partners announcing support for Nintendo Switch are as follows:

Nintendo Site

 

[DiscostewSM]

So I'm wondering. When BotW was shown on the TV, it was smooth, but when in portable mode, it was a little choppy. Would this be an indication of a low-powered mode, or could the dock supply a performance boost in the same kind of manner as was described in patents (the SCD)? If the latter, then perhaps this could lead to upgrading the dock.

 

[SuzieJoeBob]

I just realized that NX stands for Nintendo Switch, because the "X" is a literal symbol for switching!

 

[player594]

what is up with that FUGE controller though? they expect people to use that thing?!

And what exactly is wrong with it. The fact that's it's transformerable, or that it's not Sony or Microsoft controller? I for one think it's a brilliant concept.

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[Bladexdsl]

i liked the name NX better

 

[Noctosphere]

i liked the name NX better

yeah, b ut switch isnt that bad either

 

[Yil]

The only thing I am pissed about is the missing classic d-pad. Hope I have the option for a more typical controller or maybe a refined wii u pro/ wireless gamecube controller.
But local 2p with one hand held is genius.

 

[TemplarGR]

then again since its costum they could have traded some flops for 32-bit floating points. Maybe down to 1.2 - 1.0

Yeah. And make the graphical quality shit. Because 16bit for AAA gaming just doesn't cut it, unless it is cel-shaded. And even that is a stretch.

 

[Noctosphere]

The only thing I am pissed about is the missing classic d-pad. Hope I have the option for a more typical controller or maybe a refined wii u pro/ wireless gamecube controller.
But local 2p with one hand held is genius.

the reasobn the dpad looks like that is, if you rotate both joycons so both have the clip upper, youll notice they are alike, the dpad becomes the ABXY button

 

[osaka35]

Yes, and by a lot. Even assuming that the system ran a vanilla full-blown X2, NVidia boasts that the chip pushes about 1.5 Teraflops, which *seems* to be more than the Xbox One on the surface. What NVidia doesn't tell you is that that's an FP16 (16-bit floating point), not an FP32 (32-bit floating point) result like the One's, so the actual capability to push in-game graphics is slashed in half (two FP16 instructions equal one FP32 instruction), down to 750 GFLOPS, which is respectable for a portable device, but a far cry from the Xbox One. Another problem rises with cooling - the word on the street is that the X2 is a ~25W TDP chip last I've read, so using its full capabilities would require an active cooling solution. This is unlikely in a tablet, it's for automotive use, so the Switch will definitely have lower specs than that - probably in the range of 500GFLOPS to inch towards the 15W mark which is considered the top standard value for passively cooled chips, or 10W if they don't want to use a heatsink, which will sink performance further. Naturally we won't know the real power consumption and thermal profile until we see the chip and it can always be tweaked, but only at the cost of performance.

I thought that GFLOP number for the xbox one was in fp16 as well. Ah well, that's a bit dissapointing. I'm guessing it'll still be about double or so the Wii U though, eh? And maybe it'll be downclocked/less cores used while on mobile, and perhaps some cooling situation when docked? I know, a bit hopeful of me.

 

[3DPiper]

I hope one of the first available games is a Metroid game!

 

[Yil]

the reasobn the dpad looks like that is, if you rotate both joycons so both have the clip upper, youll notice they are alike, the dpad becomes the ABXY button

I know, I just hope I have the option. I did notice about its 2p capacity.

 

[ken28]

Yeah. And make the graphical quality shit. Because 16bit for AAA gaming just doesn't cut it, unless it is cel-shaded. And even that is a stretch.

what i meant is that they changed the chipset up to support 32-bit while lowering the total tflops to aroun 1 to 1,2 tflops instead of 1.5 with 16-bit

 

[Bladexdsl]

And what exactly is wrong with it.

lets compare

comfortable to hold

not comfortable to hold the d-pad is at the top of the damn thing!

it as bad as the original xbox controller remember that?!

 

[osaka35]

The only thing I am pissed about is the missing classic d-pad. Hope I have the option for a more typical controller or maybe a refined wii u pro/ wireless gamecube controller.
But local 2p with one hand held is genius.

They showed a switch pro controller with a proper d-pad. ^--- like that

 

[Justin14p]

Version 1.0.0-0U

Released: Launch

• This was the default menu included with every Nintendo Switch at system launch in the North American market.

Main changes for version 1.1.0-1U

Update released: March 29th, 2017

• Further improvements to overall system stability and other minor adjustments have been made to enhance the user experience

 

[Noctosphere]

Version 1.0.0-0U

Released: Launch

• This was the default menu included with every Nintendo Switch at system launch in the North American market.

Main changes for version 1.1.0-1U

Update released: March 29th, 2017

• Further improvements to overall system stability and other minor adjustments have been made to enhance the user experience

i wouldnt even be surprised

 

[The Catboy]

If there's one thing I like about the Switch, it's the name. Because someone in marketing went, "Fuck it! Naming it anything "Wii," might actually be a bad idea."

 

[Justin14p]

i wouldnt even be surprised

Yea, me too

 

[Deleted User]

So I'm wondering. When BotW was shown on the TV, it was smooth, but when in portable mode, it was a little choppy. Would this be an indication of a low-powered mode, or could the dock supply a performance boost in the same kind of manner as was described in patents (the SCD)? If the latter, then perhaps this could lead to upgrading the dock.

I was thinking maybe it was because BotW just isn't finished yet, and on release it'll work just fine both in portable and docked mode, since they'd likely have optimized it more before release.

 

[ken28]

I was thinking maybe it was because BotW just isn't finished yet, and on release it'll work just fine both in portable and docked mode, since they'd likely have optimized it more before release.

pretty much this, i doubt nintendo would be daring enough to put it out like this.