Nintendo has said it
will release its long-awaited new console, the Nintendo Switch, on 3 March.
It will cost
$299.99 in the US, £279.99 in the UK and 29,980 yen ($260) in Japan, more than
some analysts and gamers had been expecting. The stakes are high for the
Japanese firm after its most recent console, the Wii U, failed to replicate the
success of the original Wii.
Nintendo
shares dipped as details of the launch trickled out.
Nintendo
revealed in October last year that the games machine would be a handheld device
that doubles as a home console. Previously code-named NX, the Switch looks like
a tablet computer with Joy-Con controllers that attach to its sides. The screen
is touch-sensitive and the controllers can detect movement, like the Wii
Remote.
Reuters
When used at home, the tablet
component slots into a dock that connects to a TV set.
Games will be delivered on small
cartridges, a nod to older Nintendo consoles.
The firm said that about 80 games
were in development, including a new Mario game called Super Mario Odyssey, out
late in 2017.
One of the new titles unveiled was
Arms, a motion-controlled boxing game, due to be released this spring. Read More on BBC:
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