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hey guys Boston and staying here at the Nintendo switch of it in New York City to take a look at the brand new console of course the big shout to Nintendo for inviting us out here and let's go take a look the idea of the switch is very different from traditional Nintendo consoles so well the way you did have a tablet it was more of a controller there's really nothing going on on the tablet itself instead everything was being beamed from the actual console whereas here the switch is the console the switch is rocking a 6.2 inch capacitive 720p touchscreen it's actually a really nice looking display and of course in the demo lighting it's hard to really get a great sense of it but it looks sharp it looks colorful it looks bright a big step up over the Wii U so we don't have the exact specs on it right now however according to Eurogamer it's an under polished version of the Tegra x1 this is the same processor that's inside the Nvidia shield what that means is while it's definitely going to be a really powerful system and more powerful than the Wii U is not going to be on par with something like the Xbox one or ps4 it looks like it has two modes one for when it's running on battery power and one when it's docked to a TV so the battery power mode runs at about half the clock speed of the dock mode which does make some sense would you consider that's pushing at 720p display versus a 1080p TV however depending on the game that could mean a performance difference in fact it should it's a lot slower than your battery life it's decent Nintendo claims the range between two and a half and six nap hours on a charge which is a really really big range so to give a little bit more context they say that when you're playing Zelda pretzels a wild you should expect around three hours on a charge not great but it's decent and the cool thing is the switch now uses USB type-c which means that you can use a battery backup or even a generic charger and completely be able to use it on the go the switch talk itself is fairly straightforward so it takes advantage of that USB type-c connector to not only charge the switch but it also takes the video and runs it out via HDMI there are a couple of other features like you have a couple of USB ports on the switch dock so if you want to plug in something I can eat the net adapter you can do that but for the most part it is a very straightforward adapter dock thing the switch still uses physical media for games but instead of this you know you gain cards like the 3ds so you also do have 32 gigabytes of storage built in and you can expand that via microSD but don't expect to keep an entire game library on your switch so if your name is Ken and you're really into waifu games you'll probably be really pleased to know that the switch is now region free no matter what country you're playing games from they all work Ken please don't ruin my video right now don't no no no no come back come back I'm sorry I'm sorry I said not waifu games theorem there are more platelets of switch the more I really kind of understand why it's such a weird hybrid between a handheld and a proper game console so it has a toe 2.11 AC Wi-Fi and you can play traditionally online which you can also play up to 8 switches locally with multiplayer that's not something you would normally do with a console once this time you and seven buddies got a bunch of Xboxes together and had a LAN party the online component of the switch is a little bit unclear at this point so at launch it should be fairly similar to the Wii U you can do online multiplayer and not much beyond that however later this year it's going to get some amazing new features such as voice chat and lobbies and other things that Xbox Live has had for a very long time it also shares a yearly subscription with xbox live which is wonderful I'm not totally against this I think Nintendo has been really weak on the online side forever so the idea that they start charging maybe it's going to be a more upgraded more robust service but we'll have to see if it's come with some other perks like you get a free NES or SNES game each month which you actually may or may not actually be able to keep and there's some smaller things like you get discounts but the big thing is is this actually going to be worth the price and we'll have to find out later this year and you're making can work really hard right now I'm just getting close don't we it was that autofocus it was like Kenneth bleed oh well the switch has a touchscreen what really pulls it together are the joy Kong controller so he can either be attached to the sides of the switch you can use them independently or you can use them together as part of the accessory I'm surprised how much I like to joy Khan controllers by themselves not attached to anything as most people kind of separates them because you're not really losing anything and you can move your hands in a sort of weight I'm pleased having my hands together on a controller this is actually surprisingly nice but we're ready we can actually attach these to the grip accessory so we just slide it in it clicks into place you can see it pops up right there and there we go so now we should begin with the grip the grip itself doesn't really do a whole lot of doesn't add any additional control so everything is still on the actual joint on itself and see what food pitches over to the fish display makes me have to switch in tabletop mode running mario kart 8 a lot so the idea here is that we can take off either one or both of the controllers so for example if I wanted to two-player I could hand someone the other controller trying to reach me while you shoot that seems really tricky I sneeze like a bad idea I think controller right now so the joyed con controller by itself is small it almost reminds me of an NES controller so what happens is because of switch display 720p all the games will run at 720p obviously on actual display but when you actually hook it up through the dock to a proper TV you can go up to 1080p for example Mario Kart does run at 1080p 60 each game takes advantage of the controls a little differently so some rely almost entirely on the motion control so you put one in each hand you punch some games will allow you to use it sideways more like an NES controller and still other games can use it more like a traditional controller when you actually have it in the grip for the most part it works really well so you have NFC in one of the controllers they each have the HD Rumble feature which has actual individual haptic feedback and different partials a controller and what was really cool was just how easy it was to dock so you can fly it right into the actual switch take it off using separately it's all using a single button on the back it seems very robust let's actually plugged in but super easy to take off Nintendo definitely did the controller's right here on the game side of things there's a lot coming out for the switch this year however at launch it only has four title luckily one of those is the Legend of Zelda breath of the while I got to spend about 20 minutes playing it and it looks good so technically it's very similar to the Wii U version I didn't have them both side-by-side to compare but they look very similar the switch might be running at a slightly higher resolution on the TV but for the most part you're getting a very similar experience if anything the performance might be a little bit better I also got to try arms which is the game that's coming out the spring and no it's not about these arms it's about the arms of the game I guess I don't know it's a cool game it's very very simple so it's literally all the motion controls with a couple of buttons on the actual joique on so essentially you have one each hand and you punch so you can use them left and right to be able to walk around and jump and all that kind of stuff but for the most part it really is about throwing punches whether they're straight with a curb whatever you do it's emulated in the actual game it honestly reminded me a little bit of wheat sports a game that is very different really shows off what motion controls can do come on I have a ton of debt but of course I don't get to play it for a few minutes so we'll have to see when it actually comes out there's also splatoon too now I actually didn't get to play a lot of the original splatoon but from what I did I really enjoyed and splatoon too seems very similar so you get additional characters additional weapons but for the most part it's a very similar game just poured it over to the switch a lot of cool games coming out for the switch including Mario Kart 8 deluxe a brand new super mario odyssey game there's Skyrim as well as FIFA however almost all these are coming out later in the year at launch you're really going to be mostly playing Zelda well I mean I won't leave the Nintendo to switch launches on March 3rd for $300 so that's a decent price point my opinion yes you can get a ps4 or Xbox one for cheaper however this which is a completely different value proposition it very much is a gaming tablet that you can talk with your TV versus the other way around so what do you guys think about the switch honestly I've got to say I'm more impressed I was going to be specifically by the controllers but that will be sure to let me know what you guys think in the comments below anyway guys thank you so much for watching and I will catch you on the next one