Nintendo Switch price and release date coming in January
The mysteries of Nintendo Switch -- including its release date and price -- will be revealed in a livestream on Jan. 12.
It hasn't been a week since Nintendo shared a first look at its hybrid living room/handheld gaming machine. The brief debut trailer showcased form and function, but offered little more information than that.
The "Nintendo Switch Presentation 2017" will happen in Tokyo, with the livestream's start time to be announced at a later date. The Jan. 12 date refers to U.S. time.
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The guts of Switch are encased in a tablet that also plugs into a base station, for displaying game data on your TV. Different configurations and controllers -- including adorable little "Joy-Con" controllers for party settings -- allow for at-home or on-the-go play.
Nintendo's debut trailer showed Switch playing an assortment of games, including known Switch launch title The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and a surprise Nintendo platform debut for Bethesda's The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The stream will include more details on the hardware's launch lineup.
Other regions of the world will get an up-close look at Switch sometime after the Jan. 12 presentation. Nintendo's announcement also adds that there will be hands-on events open to the public "around the same time."
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