Review: The Switch Is the Nintendo System We've Been Waiting For

The most important thing to know about Nintendo Switch is, drum roll please, that there's surprisingly little to know at this point. It is on one level simply what it claims to be: a respectably powerful $299 TV games console you can buy on March 3 that also transforms into a handheld gaming powerhouse. There are no bending limbs or hidden robot heads lurking beneath its vivid capacitive multitouch 720p screen or beveled matte-finish plastic housing. You simply pull the rectangular slate--bookended by a pair of motion control sticks capable of advanced haptic feedback Nintendo calls Joy-Cons--from its U-shaped dock, and presto, it's a handheld. As a handheld, the Switch feels respectably rigid and durable, an unostentatious but beautiful carbon-black slate that's like a blue collar version of an Apple product.