Nintendo Switch event live blog

- Switch will release March 3rd, worldwide
- Switch will cost $300 in the states
- connect your mobile device to your Switch to interact with friends, set up online matches
- online to become a paid service in Fall 2017
- Switch will not be region locked
- battery life will range from 2.5 to 6 hours, depending on games, play while charging
- touch screen
- connect over wifi for multiplayer
- up to 8 Switches can connect for local multiplayer

- joysticks can be pressed in like buttons
- NFC reader/writer in one of the Joycons for amiibo
- square button for recording gameplay
- share the screens/footage you capture wtih friends over social media
- each joycon has an accelerometor and motion sensors
- each joycon has shoulder buttons to be used as a fully functioning controller on its own
- joycon color variations: neon blue, neon red and wrist straps
- right joycon has a motion IR camera that reads distance and hand gestures, using HD rumble
- New game by Nintendo called 1, 2 Switch, for two-player action focusing on HD rumble, due out March 3rd

- Arms is a fighting sports game where characters have very long arms, and you thrown/shoot your arms at your opponent. Hold one joycon in each hand. Online battle. Due out this Spring.
- Splatoon 2 coming to Switch. New weapons, stages, designs. Use Pro controller if you want. Use IR mode for gyro controls. Due out this Summer, weapons/stage updates after launch with in-game events as well.
- Super Mario Odyssey coming to Switch, and now Mario's hat is alive and can be tossed around, and used to jump off of. Due out this Holiday season.

- Xenoblade Chronicles 2 announced for Switch
- Fire Emblem Warriors game coming to Switch
- currently over 50 third parties working on Switch games, 80 games in development so far.
- Dragon Quest Heroes I & 2 coming to Switch as one game
- Square-Enix bringing Project Octopath Traveler to Switch
- Shin Megami Tensei Switch in the works, development has only just begun
- Skyrim coming to the Switch
- Suda51 is bringing No More Heroes' Travis Touchdown to Switch in a new game
- FIFA coming to Switch
- Minecraft coming to Switch, as well as Minecraft Story Mode
- Switch includes the console, left and right joycon, joycon wrist straps, joycon grip, switch dock, HDMI cable, and CD adapter
- Pro Controller available separately, two versions, one model with grey colors, and one with neon blue/red, both versions same price

- Switch preorders open in Japan on Jan. 21st
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild launching March 3rd, 2017