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so the Nintendo switch pressed event just wrapped up and holy that was kind of amazing and kind of not at the same time it's actually really weird he just wants me to put it is it was really really Japanese which is a really good thing for some people and not much for other to begin with so let's talk about the actual specifications of the system itself it will be releasing on March 3rd which is way sooner than I think anyone was anticipating and it's going to be at a price point of $300 a little higher than I was hoping for that specific the same price as a ps4 slimmer Xbox one so it's competitive but it's not exactly aggress that's not all we learned though there's a few other interesting little tidbits to begin with online services are going to be paid for just like on ps4 and Xbox one so if you were hoping to have a modern-day console with free multiplayer online that dream is now dead on the flip side though the Nintendo switch will be a region locking free system meaning that if you want to play a game that's from Japan or Europe or anywhere else it will work on your Nintendo switch no matter what country it's originally from which is really cool now as for the portable aspects of the system which I think a lot of people were curious about there's a bit of good and bad news the bad news is that the estimated battery life is two and a half to six hours which really means more like two and half to three hours because that six hour mark is based on some kind of game that doesn't have very much power draw you're not having to backlight on and all kinds of other stuff that isn't really a real-world application on the upside though you can charge the system with the wall outlet not having to use the recharge dock set up and ask us DC chargers you don't have to buy any kind of a special Nintendo only one if you lose it but you have a charge or some other device it'll work just fine and the last bit of news that's really cool about the portable aspects of the system is that it does support local multiplayer with other switches supporting up to as many as eight of them which could mean potentially as large as 16 player multiplayer if each system supporting two people now after all that they spend a lot of time talking about the joique on controllers which personally I'm still not really sold on they look really tiny really uncomfortable the kind of thing that's going to cause your hand cramp after as much as only 30 minutes of game time on the flip side though the cool stuff was they revealed other colors for including red and blue and it has full-on motion controls and vibration function which is supposed to be the highest quality yet according to Nintendo Utley one interesting thing though is they didn't spend any time at all talking about hardware specs which isn't super surprising there have been some leaks and rumors about what the system is going to run on it's more than likely going to be weaker than the ps4 or Xbox one and based on the gameplay they showed later in the conference that looks about right so after all that we finally start talking about games which had a rocky start because in typical Nintendo fashion they decided to open up with fun motion based party games because hey it's fun for the whole family and everyone can use it as icebreakers and look at this footage we're showing where people out at a club playing a tennis game because that's something a real person would do moving on we actually talked about games that were first hinted at the first switch reveal which were a brand new splatoon title not just a part of the one on Wii U and a new mario game called mario odyssey which looked a little disturbing because it was mario in new york with regular proportion people which is really weird but the rest of the game looked fantastic the downside is neither of these games are launch titles with splatoon to being sometime in the summer and mario odyssey all the way back to the holiday season if it doesn't get pushed back now it was after these two games that the press conference took a really interesting turn because i had a huge focus on japanese third-party companies focusing on japanese rpgs or related genres with games like fire emblem warriors shin megami tensei 5 you know blade 2 and a lot more which personally I get super hyped for those are Sandra's I love but it's not necessarily the best route to take if you want to get most of the world excited its kind of amnesia onra especially in north america now to balance this out they did spend a little time talking about Western franchises they started off by cutting to a video of Todd Howard talking about how excited he is for the switch and that we're going to be able to play Skyrim on it because who is excited about a video game we already played back in 2011 I guess portable so that is a cool new thing what was more interesting to me was when they brought up EA to talk about FIFA now me personally I'm not a huge sports game fan it's just never really done anything for me but the switch seems like it could be in really interesting home for that your honor because of the idea of poor both local multiplayer so after the sort of in-depth look at a handful of games that they went to this kind of wrap-up highlight reel trailer which I think took a lot of people off-guard because most of the games they focused on weren't in this presentation but sometimes did get trailers afterwards posted on YouTube some of these reports of games like Rain Man and Dragon Ball we've got some new games too like a new Bomberman a new tetris game and a new Street Fighter 2 which I am all kinds of excited for now say it ended things here what it's been a little awkward because so far we have one launch title confirmed and even spent any time at all talking about the one game we all want information on The Legend of Zelda breath of the wild well thankfully they cut to a trailer of it that was nothing short than incredible and confirms the game will in fact come out on the Nintendo switch release date of March 3rd honestly who cares once you switch game of the year 2017