Nintendo Switch: Everything You Need to Know

The first shoe dropped in October when Nintendo showed its mystery console--an edgy, millennial-angled home/mobile hybrid called "Switch." The second--a jumbo-sized boot full of facts and quirky usage scenarios--landed late Jan. 12, ending months of speculation about the new platform's price and launch window. Here's everything you need to know about the upcoming Nintendo Switch: Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima took the stage at the outset to reveal that Switch will launch globally on March 3, 2017 for $299.99--earlier Company director Shinya Takahashi followed with a history of Nintendo's platforms illustrating how Switch is in effect a composite of everything the company's been working toward for decades: a game system you can dock with a TV, but also removed to go mobile, and attach a pair of left and right controllers--called Joy-Cons--that let you play anywhere. "TV Mode" is your classic set-top with a big screen.