The Nintendo Switch was just announced and the internet is already on fire. If, for some reason, you missed the announcement trailer, you can get yourself caught up here. Now, as for the important bits that couldn’t be summed up in a 3 minute video.
Those fancy detachable controller ends that were featured so prominently in the video, those are the Joy-Con controllers. Just as displayed, the controllers can be utilized in a variety of different ways. Furthermore, for players uninterested in these little devices, the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller, also seen in the announcement, can be utilized instead. The Nintendo Switch seems to be designed with freedom and flexibility as a core tenant of the experience.
“Nintendo Switch allows players the freedom to play however they like,” said President and COO of Nintendo of American, Reggie Fils-Aime. “It gives game developers new abilities to bring their creative visions to life by opening up the concept of gaming without boundaries.”
The ease and flexibility of this system has already attracted a great deal of developers and publishers to partner with Nintendo, announcing their formal support of the system. A comprehensive list of them is as follows:
505 Games
LEVEL-5 Inc
Activision Publishing, Inc
Marvelous Inc
ARC SYSTEM WORKS Co., Ltd.
Maximum Games LLC
Atlus CO., LTD
Nippon Ichi Software, Inc.
Audiokinetic Inc
Partly Bit Inc
Autodesk Inc
Platinum Games Inc
BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc
RAD Game Tools Inc
Bethesda
RecoChoku Co Ltd
CAPCOM CO. LTD
SEGA Games Co Lts
Codemasters
Silicon Studios Corporation
CRI Middleware Co Ltd
Spike Chunsoft Co Ltd
DeNA Co Ltd
SQUARE ENIX CO LTD
Electronic Arts
Starbreeze Studios
Epic Games Inc
Take-Two Interactive Software Inc
Firelight Technologies
Telltale Games
FromSoftware, Inc
THQ Nordic
Frozenbyte
Tokyo RPG Factory Co Ltd
GameTrust
TT Games
GRASSHOPPER MANUFACTURE INC
UBISOFT
Gungho Online Entertainment Inc
Ubitus Inc
HAMSTER Corporation
Unity Technologies Inc
Havok
Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment
INTI CREATES CO LTD
Web Technology Corp
KOEI TECMO GAMES CO LTD
Konami Digital Entertainment Co Ltd
Look at that list and you’ll find something to get excited for, I promise.