N-Switch

The console was announced on March 17, 2015 at a press conference to announce a collaboration between Nintendo and DeNA. On April 27, 2016, Nintendo announced its intention to release it in March 2017, but it was also reported that the console would not be shown at E3 in 2016, and was presented later in the same year. Dance 2017 will also be released on this console, and Nintendo also reported that it would not be shown at the Tokyo Game Show in September 2016. On July 23, 2016, Sega announced the launch of its new game Sonic Forces (formerly known by its name). in key Project Sonic 2017) for Nintendo Switch, still named NX, at the end of 2016. On July 26, 2016, the Eurogamer medium leaked a possible sketch of the console, consisting only of a screen with dockable controls on the sides , able to be connected to the TV and with a physical support based on cartridges. The first days of August 2016, the videogame companies Ubisoft and Take Two announced that they will support the console with exclusive videogames. In addition, the patent for dockable controls would be confirmed, and on August 18 the acclaimed video game company Square Enix would value the possibility of bringing the Dragon Quest Builders game to the system, and on the same day another rumor related to the same company would begin. to the popular belief that the game Kingdom Hearts III would be announced for the console. The next day this rumor would be denied, and on August 26, Nintendo America president Reggie Fils-Aime announced that Nintendo was not going to commit the failures it committed with Wii U, in addition to announcing that it will have an extensive catalog. On September 20, 2016, the executive director of The Pokémon Company, Tsunekazu Ishihara, mentioned that NX would change the concept of desktop consoles and portable consoles. This statement confirms the possibility that it is a hybrid console. On September 22, 2016, the CEO of Ubisoft, Yves Guillemot, declared that "The new Nintendo console is a fantastic machine, it's a new way of approaching games, it's very Nintendo, which offers us something new once more, we love NX. " On October 20, 2016, through a video of just over three minutes, the console was presented under the commercial name of Nintendo Switch. The most prominent element is the hybrid nature of the new hardware that can be used as a portable console or as a desktop console. For this it has removable controls that are called Joy-Con. On January 13, 2017, the official presentation of the console was held in Tokyo, accompanied by events in which journalists could test the console. During the presentation of the same presented the different functions of Joy-Con, online functions, sales configurations, battery life and storage capacity as well as their first video games: 1-2-Switch, Arms , Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Splatoon 2, among others.