Tag: nintendo
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Classic Nintendo
What happens when Nintendo launches a very successful and cheap console a few months before releasing the Switch hybrid console/handheld? Jose Otero: Nintendo will discontinue the Nintendo Entertainment System: NES Classic Edition and the last shipments will go out to retailers throughout this month. I bet that Nintendo looked at the Classic as a mistake. It was too cheap and…
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Nintendo Switch Launch Day
Nintendo launched their new console, the Switch, today. The console plugs into a TV but can also be taken on the go with the built-in screen. Kyle Orland at Ars has a review of the system. CNET’s Jeff “Autoplaying Video” Bakalar also has a review. I have some concerns with the system’s a lack of…
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Early Switch OS Videos
The internet has provided us with an early look of the operating system on the Nintendo Switch and it looks much better than anything Nintendo has provided us with previously. I recently spent about two hours inside a Game Stop trying to do a system transfer from one 3DS to another, which failed the first two times…
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Nintendo Switch Presentation 2017 Notes
Nintendo Japan had a live-streamed presentation revealing new details about their upcoming console, the Nintendo Switch. Here are my notes. It’ll be available March 3rd 2017 in Japan, US, Canada, “major Euro nations.” 29,980 JPY $299.99 USD It’ll be up for pre-order in Japan on the 21st. No word on the US. The system will…
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The NX is the Nintendo Switch
Nintendo teased that the NX would get revealed in a short video today and here it is. The device codenamed NX now has an official designation, the Switch, a docking combination of home-console and portable device with a detachable controller that splits off of the main tablet-style unit to become two smaller SNES-style controllers for…