The Nintendo Switch — known before its announcement as the NX — is one of the weirdest and most interesting pieces of major gaming hardware we’ve seen for a while. It’s a modular device that can be used as a portable console or placed in a dock for living room gaming.
It is the first games console to fully bridge the divide between home consoles such as the PlayStation and Xbox, and portable devices like Nintendo’s 3DS.
It is made up of a tablet-sized screen with detachable "Joy-Con" controllers on each side. These can be taken off the screen and held in each hand, or used by two people as individual control pads. Both Joy-Con controllers are identical button-wise, with an analogue stick and four buttons arranged in a diamond.
It is the first games console to fully bridge the divide between home consoles such as the PlayStation and Xbox, and portable devices like Nintendo’s 3DS.
It is made up of a tablet-sized screen with detachable "Joy-Con" controllers on each side. These can be taken off the screen and held in each hand, or used by two people as individual control pads. Both Joy-Con controllers are identical button-wise, with an analogue stick and four buttons arranged in a diamond.
Nintendo Switch specifications
After Nvidia's last showing with the RSX chip on the PS3, the Nintendo Switch will be sporting a custom Tegra processor, another leak that has come true. According to Nvidia, it's a "high-efficiency scalable processor includes an Nvidia GPU based on the same architecture as the world’s top-performing GeForce gaming graphics cards." The idea, according to the company, is to allow blistering fast to the mainstream, building NVN - a new API to make this possible, along with a new physics engine, advanced game tools, and libraries to boot. Though nothing has been said of its raw performance numbers, its developer kits allegedly sport the following specifications:
- Four ARM Cortex-A57 cores, max 2GHz
- Nvidia second-generation Maxwell architecture
- 256 CUDA cores, max 1GHz, 1024 FLOPS/cycle
- 4GB RAM (25.6 GB/s, VRAM shared)
- 32 GB storage (Max transfer 400 MB/s)
- USB 2.0 and 3.0
- 1280 x 720 6.2-inch IPS LCD
- 1080p at 60 fps or 4k at 30 fps max video output
- Capacitance method, 10-point multi-touch
With Nintendo though, it's always been about the games. Which brings us to the next point.
The Nintendo Switch games will include a new Mario title and Skyrim.
While a new Mario game on a new Nintendo console was all but obvious, it was Skyrim that was the big surprise of Nintendo's three minute long reveal.
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