Forget Mario: The Nintendo Switch Will Live or Die With Indie Games

The annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco is a valuable opportunity for games journalists to get their hands on forthcoming titles, and in a small room in a hotel near the Moscone Center in San Francisco, that's exactly what's happening. This particular room is packed with new Nintendo Switch consoles, on which press members play a handful of specially selected games, some never played by the public before. Instead, they're a curated selection of titles made by independent developers. This is the "Nindies," a showcase that's part of Nintendo's surprising push to make independent games a cornerstone of the Switch. According to Nintendo, 60 indie games will be coming to Switch in 2017--a mixture of original titles and ports from other platforms.