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so after months of waiting speculation leagues rumors all that good stuff we finally have an official reveal trailer for the Nintendo NX and holy shit so one of the immediate thoughts I had while watching this trailer is that everything we heard in the leaks was basically exactly true I mean it's a portable system with a screen on it it's got detachable controllers that you can put together to have a separate one it has a docking setup when you want to play at home and it even uses carts for its games now something that we didn't know going into this trailer is what the system is actually called which is the Nintendo switch which I really like that name it's short it's simple its memorable and it really aptly describes the concept behind this system and it's definitely way better than whatever idea they had before for Wii U and I gotta say seeing what was in this trailer I really liked the idea behind the system this is something I can see myself using a lot especially if it's all it's easy to use as the trailer tries to make it out to be you know something as simple as you just put it in your docking setup and you can play right there on your TV and if you want to stop and continue playing just pick it up out of the dock and keep going assuming that's all really simple this is a great idea that being said there are some things I don't like about what I saw in this trailer first off the system itself is kind of simple not terrible looking but not really great that's not a big deal the bigger problem I have is the controller I really don't like the way the new stock controller looks like it's like a pair of wiimotes you have in each hand that aren't even shaped properly to be comfortable or you can combine them together to have this weird little brick thing that's just as awful if not worse the upside though is that I think Nintendo kind of saw this coming and they were smart because in the same trailer we also saw some kind of pro controller that you can also use with the system which I like a lot better but it's probably not going to be shipping with a system probably something you have to buy separately for 50 or 60 bucks now another thing that Nintendo did in this trailer that was really smart was how it approached games now obviously it opens up with gameplay of zelda breath of the wild the one thing we knew for sure but then it went on to show us more games including what looks like a brand new Mario game and some ports of some of the more popular Wii U games like splatoon and Mario Kart and what's really interesting is it also showed some third-party ports like Skyrim now what's a little weird about this is that Nintendo has tried in the past to push poured third-party games as launch titles as being a big deal because they're trying to get everyone excited that hey look all these other companies are supporting us again and as we saw the Wii U didn't exactly end well but what makes a stronger case for this time with the NX is that the NX offers something new portability sure you played Skyrim before years ago several times you're probably planning on playing it another week when Skyrim remastered comes out but now you have an easy way to play it in the backseat of a car or while sitting in a waiting room and that's really the big point this trailer was trying to get across how portable the Nintendo switch is and more importantly how adaptable it is to so many different situations honestly I thought this was an excellent reveal for the system I think it did a great job of getting people hyped up for this new idea of how they're going to handle this next system but it leaves us with a lot of questions you know it ends saying the system is coming out March 2017 so we still don't have an exact date we don't know how much it's gonna cost and seeing an action brings up a few more questions like what kind of battery life can we expect for the system when it's in portable mode with only four months to go there's a lot that Nintendo still needs to tell us about this system so hopefully we'll be seeing some more official news and trailers soon