Nintendo unveils long-awaited Switch game console

Japanese gaming company Nintendo has unveiled the Nintendo Switch console at a presentation in Tokyo. The new gaming platform wants to do everything at once, executives said, from the old-school fantasy of its flagship launch title, Zelda: Breath of the Wild, to party games played face-to-face rather than in front of a screen. The Switch "inherited all of Nintendo's entertainment DNA" across the company's broad line of products, said Shinya Takahashi, Nintendo's head of software development. The presentation ended with a surprise: the long-delayed Breath of the Wild, originally planned as an exclusive to the Wii U platform, will go on sale with the new console. The Switch will go on sale on 3 March in Europe, Japan and the US, at a cost of $299.99.