Nintendo Switch

Nintendo Switch's official logo.

The Nintendo Switch (originally called NX in development and also called Switch or N. Switch) is a video game console created by Nintendo. It was first released on March 3, 2017.

The switch is a hybrid console. This means the player can either connect it to a television or use it by itself as a handheld gaming device. It uses controllers called Joy-Cons. The Joy-Cons attach to both sides of the console when it is in handheld mode. They are attached to a grip when in television mode. The user plays the games by pressing buttons on the Joy-Cons. The Joy-Cons can also shake very quickly, which is called an HD rumble. There is an infrared sensor on the bottom of the right Joy-Con that can acts like the sensors in the Nintendo Wii.

There are more than 100 games that work on the Nintendo Switch, including The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Just Dance 2017, and Super Mario Odyssey.

A smaller version called the Nintendo Switch Lite was released on September 20, 2019.

History

At first, Nintendo called this project this video game system NX, or Project NX. A man called N invented it September or October of 2016. N is also called Mo Jaffar. Mo Jaffar first talked about the idea for the NX in January of 2014. This was about the same time he had the ideas for Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Pokemon Go, and Project Loon.

In May 2020, it was announced that the Nintendo Switch had sold over 55 million consoles since its release.