The Nintendo Switch was announced earlier today, and like always we found out some more information on the product.
One of our Nintendo inside resource has given us list of everything that we can confirm about the Nintendo Switch:
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Nintendo Switch uses cartridges for its games
- Will be compatible with amiibo (if the game supports it)
- Is not backwards compatible at all (No word yet on eshop support)
- Can only play on one screen, either TV OR Switch
- Unknown if Switch is a touchscreen
- First party titles will be announced later
- Third party titles will be announced by devs and pubs when they want
- Unknown nvidia Tegra processor
- Will support co-op multiplayer over 2 players if everyone has a Switch
- The screen is the Switch, the box by the tv is only used for charging it and hooking it up to the tv
- The controllers you use are called Joy-Con L and Joy-Con R, and the device you plug into is only meant for home use, (is not actually the controller, just controller dock)
- Unknown battery life
Nintendo also announced support from the following publishers, developers and middleware partners:
- 505 Games
- Activision Publishing, Inc.
- Arc System Works Co., Ltd.
- Atlus Co., Ltd.
- Audiokinetic Inc.
- Autodesk, Inc.
- Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.
- Bethesda
- Capcom Co., Ltd.
- Codemasters
- CRI Middleware Co., Ltd.
- DeNA Co., Ltd.
- Electronic Arts
- Epic Games Inc.
- Firelight Technologies
- FromSoftware, Inc.
- Frozenbyte
- GameTrust
- Grasshopper Manufacture, Inc.
- Gungho Online Entertainment, Inc.
- Hamster Corporation
- Havok
- Inti Creates Co., Ltd.
- Koei Tecmo Games Co., Ltd.
- Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.
- Level-5 Inc.
- Marvelous Inc.
- Maximum Games, LLC
- Nippon Ichi Software, Inc.
- Parity Bit Inc.
- PlatinumGames Inc.
- RAD Game Tools, Inc.
- RecoChoku Co.,Ltd.
- Sega Games Co., Ltd.
- Silicon Studio Corporation
- Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
- Square Enix Co., Ltd.
- Starbreeze Studios
- Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.
- Telltale Games
- THQ Nordic
- Tokyo RPG Factory Co., Ltd.
- TT Games
- Ubisoft
- Ubitus Inc.
- Unity Technologies, Inc.
- Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
- Web Technology Corp.
Be sure check out the tariler from our previous post right here.
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