Nintendo Switch is Nintendo’s hybrid console between portable and desktop, before its launch it was known as Nintendo NX until the end of 2016 announced its worldwide release for March 3, 2017. The Nintendo Switch incorporates two controllers called Joy Con that can be undocked from the console for local multiplayer games like Mario Kart, also have gyroscope, infrared camera, NFC and HD vibration technologies that are leveraged by other games, such as 1,2,3 Switch, which accompanied the console at launch.
Nintendo’s hybrid console can work with digital games downloaded from its own integrated eShop or with cartridges that you can buy in video game stores, also we can acquire download codes that we can redeem in the Nintendo Switch eShop, you can consult our guide of cheap games for Nintendo Switch. There have been many studios that from the beginning have supported this console and given its resounding success continue to release more and more games, many of them only available online through its store.
The console has a 6.2″ touch screen and carries inside a NVIDIA Tegra SoC modified for Nintendo, incorporates 32 GB of expandable storage with a slot for microSD cards up to 2 TB, has 4 GB of LPDDR4 RAM and Wifi connection of 2.4 and 5 GHz 802.11 ac, although it is also possible to connect via Ethernet with a USB adapter. We can use the console as a laptop or as a desktop console when we attach it to its Dock that connects via the USB Type-C port, the Dock offers 3 USB connections and an HDMI connection to connect to a TV or projector.
If you are playing in portable mode you can connect the console to the Dock and turn on the TV and continue where you were going without having to do anything else, or you can undock it from the Dock and the screen will turn on and allow you to continue playing in portable mode. It also has a support leg to play in desktop mode with the Joy Con undocked as a Wii Remote.
In addition to the classic Nintendo Switch, there is the Nintendo Switch Lite whose difference is the screen smaller than 5.5″, which does not have Joy Con, but has the controls integrated into the console itself, also lacks Dock in the initial pack and is not compatible with this, it is intended for a more portable use. Another option to play Nintendo Switch games is to use the PC emulator Yuzu.
What is Nintendo Switch for?
The Nintendo Switch serves as an entertainment console and thanks to its multiple ways to play it is possible to take it and play anywhere. We can have the console in portable mode and if for example we make a trip, entertain us in the duration of this, as you have the possibility of putting it in airplane mode there is no problem if this is your means of transport, also the cartridges take up little space and are easily transportable, so we can carry the console with the cartridges comfortably in one of the many cases that are for the console. It doesn’t matter if you have the normal or Lite model, most of the games are compatible with both consoles.
If we have any of the many games compatible with the desktop mode, we can undock the Joy Con and take a double game, or up to four players, undocking the Joy Con, with the Pro controller or a mixture of all, this mode is not compatible with Nintendo Switch Lite. Even we can connect multiple consoles in local multiplayer to compete against each other each with their own console and controller, in this mode up to 8 game consoles are supported.
Also very useful is its portable game mode if we have to leave home and we are playing in the Dock, we simply have to take the console to continue playing wherever we go. We will only have to turn it on again and it will continue where we were going.
