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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday January 07 2018, @03:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the no-electrician-needed dept.

The Nintendo Switch has been named America's fastest-selling home games console.

A total of 4.8 million units were sold in the US during the 10 months following the Switch's launch there on 3 March last year.

The Switch breaks tradition with the firm's previous home consoles in allowing owners to use it as a portable console for game-playing on the move.

One analyst said Nintendo had completely turned its business around.

The previous record for the fastest-selling console in the US was Nintendo's Wii, launched in 2006, which went on to be one of the top-selling consoles in history worldwide.

However, the company's next offering - the Wii U - fared much more poorly.

As a consequence, Nintendo had been under considerable pressure to deliver a popular device this time around.

What if you don't like Mario or Zelda?


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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Marand on Sunday January 07 2018, @04:32AM

    by Marand (1081) on Sunday January 07 2018, @04:32AM (#619005) Journal

    It may not have the computing and graphics punch of the competitors but it has the games, good enough quality and can handle both big screen and be portable.

    It's not just that it's portable, it's that it's seamlessly so. You drop it into the dock and it slots itself in with no fuss, just an instant swap to television (or monitor) output. It feels like hardware convergence done right. Just like the unit itself, the controller is similarly flexible and mostly seamless. The switch controller can be used attached to the portable screen, detached and used as a single two-part controller (wii-style), used as two separate controllers (1p/2p), or slotted into a plastic shell to handle more like a traditional controller, and all but one (attached to the unit) can be used docked or in portable mode.

    I know it's just a game machine, but seeing how well it handles hardware convergence makes me hopeful that eventually someone will get it right for general-purpose computing devices one day as well.

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