You Can Play Nintendo Switch Before Launch In These 3 Places

We've already seen it played on the toilet, to say nothing of park benches, beds, airports, party vans, e-sports arenas and ad hoc nighttime games of underpass hoops. And you'll soon be able to play Nintendo's imminent $299 hybrid TV/mobile Switch game console, due March 3, in even stranger locales. "Imagine driving in the middle of the desert and seeing a couch, TV and video game system in the middle of nowhere," writes Nintendo in a press blurb, "or skiing down the side of a mountain and seeing another one of these surprising setups sitting there in the snow, ready for a round of gaming." That's right, the desert, into which Nintendo says it'll deposit a living room on February 23. Blue Cloud Movie Ranch in Santa Clarita, California, to be geo-spatially precise, a place that's been everything from an Afghan village in American Sniper to an Iraqi village in an episode of Arrested Development.