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Nintendo wants everyone to buy a Switch — from esports fans to 3DS diehards

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Nintendo is targeting a wide audience, from portable tablet fans to esports enthusiasts, with its new Nintendo Switch gaming device coming in March 2017.

The Japanese company unveiled a three-minute video unveiling the Nintendo Switch, previously known as the NX, this morning. The video doesn’t show a single kid as a player. Rather, it showcases young adults playing with the device, which functions as a portable device as well as a home console. It has a tablet-like display (though we didn’t see any touchscreen functions), and it can plug into a TV screen as well, with handheld controllers that attach to either side or can be detached so you can play on the couch.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.