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hey this is Nick stout with the verge and we're checking out one to switch it's one of the launch games for Nintendo's new switch council think of one to switch is a spiritual successor to Wii Sports it's a game that revolves around motion control and it gets you up on your feet and moving around it's essentially a collection of minigames that both showcase the switch hardware and frame how Nintendo hopes people we use the new console it's comprised of 28 minigames that pede you against one other opponent and a series of different physical activities the key to the whole experience is the joy con controller has a bunch of pretty sophisticated tech inside of it a few things like motion control object detection depth sensing even the controller also has something called HD Rumble that lets it basically mimic different physical sensations so we can act like a wooden box with a different number of marbles inside or it can be a glass being filled with water in one two switch each player takes one of the two controllers and they face off not by looking at a screen but by looking right into each other's eyes the whole point is to pay tribute to the kinds of games I can only be played in the same shared physical space it's kind of like playing cards for instance for a Nintendo which is over 120 years old and got it start making playing cards this is a core function of its DNA among the activities you can do are your kind of your standard motion control game so like table tennis sword fighting there's even like a Wild West duel game but then there are very weird bizarre other minigames you can play there's a dance-off game there's even a game where you pretend to be a model walking down the runway scoring style points against your opponent the weirdness only escalates from there one two switches a game where you milk a virtual cow's udder it also has one where you hold the controller right near your mouth and mimic eating as many sandwiches you can it's an eating contest against another opponent these games are designed to appeal to a wide range of Ages from little kids all the way to grown adults and Nintendo is not shying away from describing this as a party game that means you could probably play and have a lot more fun if you have maybe one or two drinks in you as well the one thing you're going to want to remember with one two switch is the wrist straps for the joy con controllers because these games tend to get quite physical the Nintendo switch comes out next Friday on March 3rd for more information about the console check out the verge comm or subscribe to us on youtube at youtube.com slash the Virg