Nintendo Co. will launch its game console, Nintendo Switch the 3rd of march in Japan, the united States and Europe, announced the company this Friday. The company nippon added that the device, which will sell for 29.980 yen (about 260 dollars) in Japan, will include the fun features of their previous machines, and more functions.
The company responsible for the Super Mario games and Pokémon, with headquarters in Kyoto, made the announcement in Tokyo. The console will sell for 299,99 dollars in north America. Customers will have to request information to retailers in Europe to know the prices in your region, reported the company.
Nintendo, who started his business making playing cards in the NINETEENTH century, has the Switch was to revive benefits that are based on the sales of the consoles.
But the announcement of the new price made it down to the actions of Nintendo as much as 6.3 percent, while the Nikkei 225 rose 0.8 percent.
The excitement has been growing with the launch of the device. In videos of advancement, Nintendo has shown images of players using a portable console, composed of a central part with a screen and two modules side controls, which can be separated.
The users can play using the device as a portable console traditional, separate controls for play with the screen on a table or use the screen of a tv connected wirelessly.
Allow for different modes of game exploiting, in addition to the buttons, the recognition of movements by accelerometer or infrared camera.
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“Nintendo Switch is a new class of home computer game that offers you a wide variety of game modes,” said the company’s president, Tatsumi Kimishima.
With this new concept of console “hybrid”, Nintendo does not compete directly with the PlayStation 4 Sony, a stationary machine is very powerful that offers multimedia features, but is installed between the console PS4 and the games on phones.
Nintendo is confident that the Switch impulse is a change in trend, after a few sales disappointing in its video game console Wii U and its handheld console 3DS. The company has been lagging after consumers abandon old machines to play on mobile phones and computers. In addition, the company faces strong competition from the consoles of Microsoft Corp. and Sony Corp.
The Switch has to make to new young players that may not be ferrous gamers and you may see intimidated by the price. Many had hoped that the sale price was closer to $ 200.
Nintendo has promised an experience more immersive and interactive with the device, which includes game on the internet and allows you to use the controller in games that do not require players to constantly watch the screen.
Members of the company showed in the presentation functions as the controls are detachable, so-called Joy-With. For example, the motion sensors of the controls allow players to feel as if to serve as virtual water in a cup virtual.
In another game, the arms of the characters moved during combat when players were punching the air while holding the controls.
“It’s a type of game completely new,” said Kouichi Kawamoto, who oversaw “1-2-Switch”, a game of duelling with pistols, which requires players to look at each other. “Consists of having fun with the communication.”
Nintendo reported that 50 software makers, including Electronic Arts and Sega, are preparing 80 games for the console. He also promised games of the home as a gift of Legend of Zelda, which will be released on the same date that the machine.
The company had planned to offer a similar presentation in Usa Friday and I made places where people could try out the device before its launch, also in european cities, to allure the buyers.
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“The Switch is going to allow games that until now were impossible to play,” noted one of the developers during the launch.
“It’s a games console that allows you to have fun with another person, rather than with a machine”, since it has two joysticks that interact with the real environment, he added.
Half a hundred studies of development are also involved “in the creation of 80 games,” said Yoshiaki Koizum, a leader of Nintendo who also is a producer of a new Super Mario Odyssey.
“we Continue to prepare the launch of several titles with our partners to offer a new game universe,” promised the skipper of Nintendo, Tatsumi Kimishima.
“I Think that it’s a console accessible (…) is very different from the PlayStation 4 and probably have the two at home. The PS4 is not carried out,” he told AFP Yusuke Tomizawa, a manager of game development group Bandai Namco. the (E)
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