After watching the full live stream presentation of the upcoming Nintendo Switch, we now have a bunch of official details to provide you all with. Here’s when you can expect to pick up one, how much it will cost you, what games will be available once Nintendo’s next console launches etc.
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Release Date & Price
The Nintendo Switch will release on March 3, 2017 in all major territories. The console will launch at $299.99. You can get a Switch with the Gray Joy-Con or Neon Blue/Red Joy-Con controller for that aforementioned price.
Online, Battery Life, Controllers & Peripherals Pricing
The online service for the Nintendo Switch will be free during a trial period for non-subscribers through Fall 2017. As a non-paying subscriber, you’ll have access to the Nintendo eShop, the ability to register and manage your online friends list, the chance to share screenshots to social media and control over the console’s Parental Controls app. Paid subscribers will get the full spectrum of features. You’ll get access to all the non-paid subscriber bonuses, plus online gameplay, lobbies and the voice chat app. Along with all that, paid subscribers will get a special monthly game download and exclusive deals.
Nintendo released the following statement regarding the monthly game deal:
Subscribers will get to download and play a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) or Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Super NES) game (with newly-added online play) for free for a month.
Region Locking won’t be a factor for this new Nintendo console, so you’ll be able to play games released in other countries. When the Switch isn’t docked and connected to your TV, its battery lasts from 2-and-a-half-hours to 6-and-a-half-hours. The battery life is also said to vary depending on the game currently being played once it’s in Portable Mode.
As far as the prices go for the Switch’s additional controllers and peripherals, you can check those out down below:
• Joy-Con controller: $49.99
• Two Joy-Con controllers: $79.99
• Switch Pro controller:$69.99
• Joy-Con charging station: $29.99
• Nintendo Switch Dock Set: $89.99
• Joy-Con Wheel: $14.99
Launch Day Games Lineup
• 1-2-Switch
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
• Super Bomberman R
• Skylanders Imaginators
• Just Dance 2017
• The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+
• I am Setsuna
• Fast RMX
• Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
• Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment
Launch Window Games Lineup (Over 80 Games are in Development)
• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (April 28)
• ARMS (Spring 2017)
• Splatoon 2 (Summer 2017)
• Super Mario Odyssey (Holiday 2017)
• Xenoblade Chronicles 2
• Fire Emblem Warriors
• Dragon Quest X
• Dragon Quest XI
• Dragon Quest Heroes I & II
• Shin Megami Tensei: Brand New Title
• Project Octopath Traveler
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Fall 2017)
• New No More Heroes
• FIFA
• Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers (May 26)
• Rayman Legends Definitive Edition
• Steep
• Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2
• NBA 2K18 (September 2017)
• Snipperclips: Cut it Out, Together!
• TumbleSeed
• Minecraft: Switch Edition
• Arcade Archives
• Farming Simulator
• Minecraft: Story Mode – The Complete Adventure
• RIME
• Little Inferno
• World of Goo
• Human Resource Machine
• Syberia 3
• The King of Fighters ’98
• Waku Waku 7
• Shock Troopers
• World Heroes Perfect
• Metal Slug 3
• Project Sonic 2017
• New BlazBlue
• New Frontier Days: Founding Pioneers
• New Tales of…
• New Taiko Drum Master
• Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom
• Lego Worlds
• Lego City Undercover (Spring 2017)
• Redout
• Sonic Mania (Spring 2017)
• Puyo Puyo Tetris
• Disgaea 5 Complete (May 23, 2017)
• Has-Been Heroes
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Nintendo Switch: Launch Date, Price, Games Lineup and More Reveals