34 Facts About Nintendo Switch

1. Nintendo Switch launched alongside the latest instalment of fan favourite, The Legend of Zelda, with The Breath of The Wild.

2. Along the top of the Nintendo Switch is a slot for game cartridges, a headphone jack, a volume rocker and a power button.

3. Nintendo Switch mostly delivers very, very well on this initial premise.

4. Nintendo Switch will launch worldwide on March 3, 2017 and will cost $300 in the United States.

5. Nintendo Switch has been out less than a week, but the eShop is already growing.

6. Nintendo Switch keeps some recent Nintendo features we're already familiar with, like Miis, for instance, but it loses the free game bundle that we might have hoped to come included.

7. On the TV in the dock the Nintendo Switch is just any other game console.

8. Nintendo Switch has been one of if the biggest stories of 2017 in video games.

9. Nintendo Switch offers gamers the chance to utilize three different play styles.

10. The Nintendo Switch will debut with two versions: one with grey Joy-Con controllers and one with neon red and blue controllers.

11. The Nintendo Switch is a portable, multiplayer machine designed to let you and your friends play almost anywhere.

12. The Nintendo Switch had a slower year this year—but hopefully, next year, with game releases and announcements, Nintendo will end up more than making up for that.

13. The Nintendo Switch was released in the first quarter of 2017, and has been a huge hit for the company.

14. Nintendo Switch comes with 32GB of onboard storage, but that will quickly run out if you download games with any frequency.

15. As of January 2018, the Nintendo Switch has sold more than 300,000 units in Spain, surpassing the total lifetime sales of one of its competitors, the Xbox One, in the region.

16. The Nintendo Switch was the fastest-selling console in Canada, having shipped 400,000 units in its first 10 months, narrowly outpacing the Wii's performance of 392,000 units in the same time period, according to TechVibes.

17. The Nintendo Switch reportedly outsold the PS4 and Xbox One in hardware and software sales in Japan during July of 2018.

18. Nintendo Switch continued to show strong sales throughout its first year of release.

19. In February 2017, Kimishima said that the Nintendo Switch is powerful enough to emulate titles from previous Nintendo consoles.

20. The Nintendo Switch is not backwards compatible with other digital titles from previous consoles.

21. The Nintendo Switch does not use optical discs, and does not have native backward compatibility with software from any previous Nintendo console.

22. Nintendo Switch offers integration with third-party social networking services to provide social and sharing features.

23. Nintendo Switch is produced between Taiwan-based Foxconn and Japan-based Hosiden, with Foxconn accounting for the largest volume.

24. The Nintendo Switch supports a wireless Pro Controller, which has a more traditional design reminiscent of the Wii Classic Controller Pro and Wii U Pro Controller.

25. The Nintendo Switch does not support external storage units at launch, but Nintendo stated that they were looking into adding this feature in the future.

26. If the microSD card is used, the Nintendo Switch will only store game save data on the internal memory, leaving data that can be re-acquired on the microSD card.

27. Nintendo Switch is primarily powered in portable mode by a non-removable 4310 mAh, 3.7 V Lithium-ion rechargeable battery.

28. The Nintendo Switch uses Bluetooth 4.1 for wireless communication between the console and its controllers.

29. Nintendo Switch uses a system-on-chip from the Tegra family of products, developed in partnership with Nvidia.

30. Nintendo Switch is a hybrid video game console, with the main system comprising the "Switch Console", the "Switch Dock", and the "Joy-Con" controllers.

31. Nintendo Switch was officially released on March 3, 2017 worldwide, notably in all key markets, but excluding some parts of Asia, including India and Mainland China.

32. Development of the Nintendo Switch continued Nintendo's blue ocean approach for the competitive console marketplace.

33. Nintendo Switch was unveiled in October 2016 and was released in most areas worldwide on March 3, 2017.

34. The Nintendo Switch competes on the console gaming market with contemporaries being Sony's PlayStation 4 and Microsoft's Xbox One.