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'Switch' is Nintendo's next game console

Goodbye NX, hello Switch.

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it's been almost a year and a half since Nintendo announced the NX, and now the gaming giant has finally dropped the codename and secrecy in favor of something more official: Switch. Like the countless rumors previously asserted, it's indeed a hybrid mobile and home console with a tablet element and detachable controllers.

The tablet itself is thin and pretty attractive. It looks to have a screen measuring around 7 inches, of unspecified resolution. In the trailer, a gamer plugs in what looks to be an SD Card-style cartridge, meaning games are likely to distributed both digitally and physically.

The controllers are just as we expected: We see them attached to a central unit of some sort, behaving like a single game controller, stuck to the side of the tablet and used independently like two miniature gamepads. Oh, and that tablet has a kickstand. The NX will be released worldwide in March 2017.

Developing... Timothy J. Seppala contributed to this report.

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