Join the Leaders Making Gaming’s Next Big Deals. GamesBeat NEXT brings 500+ executives, CEOs, founders, and investors to San Francisco, November 2–3, to shape the future of gaming, entertainment, and AI. Connect with industry leaders, forge strategic partnerships, and close deals that move business forward. Be in the room. Get your ticket.
Switch is ready to give your fists a workout.
Arms is a fighting game for the Switch that uses motion-based controls. You hold the system’s Joy-Con controllers in each hand while simulation punching motions to box. But these colorful characters have springy arms, giving them a much longer reach than your typical fighter. It will release this spring.
That means that it will miss the Nintendo’s March 3 launch, but it could help give the system something for early adopters to look forward to. The game will have local and online mutliplayer.
Along with the party game 1-2 Switch and the senors in the Joy-Con controllers, Arms shows that Nintendo isn’t completely done with the motion-based gaming that made the Wii hit.