Review: The Switch Is the Nintendo System We’ve Been Waiting For

Mar 04, 2017, 02:44 PM

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The most important thing to know about Nintendo Switch is that there's surprisingly little to. It is essentially what it claims to be: a respectably powerful $299 TV games console you can buy on March 3 that also "switches" into a handheld gaming powerhouse.

Not literally. No bending limbs or hidden robot heads lurk beneath its vivid capacitive multitouch 720p screen or beveled matte-finish plastic housing.