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Nintendo Switch

Nintendo's new console for the home and your hands 👾

#1 Product of the WeekOctober 20, 2016
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Nintendo Switch is designed to fit your life, transforming from home console to portable system in a snap. So you get more time to play the games you love, however you like.

Super Nintendo games are coming to the Switch tomorrowIt's been almost a year since Nintendo launched its Switch Online service, and today the company announced the next big addition: access to SNES games, which will join the existing catalog of NES games already included with the service starting on September 5th.
You can now run Android on a Nintendo SwitchThe Nintendo Switch can now run Android, turning the handheld into an Android tablet with access to Netflix, YouTube, Spotify, Twitch, a wide array of Android apps, and loads of classic game emulators, of course. Specifically, it's an unofficial port of LineageOS 15.1 based on Nvidia's own build for the Nvidia Shield TV set-top-box.
The Switch has now outsold the N64, but Nintendo sees growth slowingNintendo's Switch has now outsold its N64 console on lifetime sales, but prospects for the portable gaming system look mixed for the next year following a conservative sales forecast. Nintendo just announced its end of year financials, and in doing so it revealed that it sold 16.95 million Sw...
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Jack Dweck
Product Manager at Rakuten
This will always be my favorite Nintendo console:
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David McGraw
Founder • Builder • U.S. Marine Veteran
@jackdweck the best!
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adam mashaal
Founder of Being. East Village, NYC
@jackdweck Ocarina of Time is still my favorite game of all time.
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Christien LouviereCoFounder - BDEnergy
@adammash the way you could get lost in the world on that horse was so innovative and fun!
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Steve McGarry
Entrepreneur and coffee snob
@jackdweck Agreed
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Drew Meyers
Founder, Geek Estate
@jackdweck goldeneye..
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Ben Tossell
No-coder 👉 Makerpad.co
Meaningful comment alert: WANT edit: I do think its a little ugly tho 🙊
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Ben Tossell
No-coder 👉 Makerpad.co
You can read their press release here
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James Mcnallysocial advertising expert
@bentossell poor nintendo.com
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Kevin
@bentossell I was thinking the same thing but the design has grown on me
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Vamsi VaranasiProduct Manager @ Ola Cabs
@bentossell Mario was a little ugly too, no?
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Ryan Hoover
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Founder, Product Hunt
Super interesting to see it's both a home and handheld console. But it's not the first console they've announced this year. Nintendo has some of the best IP's. I'm probably in the minority but I'd love to see a Super Mario RPG sequel.
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Matt BraunPrincipal, magnate interactive ltd
@rrhoover I was just listening to the Super Mario RPG soundtrack the other day! I'd love to see a sequel, too.
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Christian Montoya
Maker
@rrhoover That's still in my top 10 games of all time. But I've already given up hope in a sequel :(
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Ryan Gilbert
Making FAQ Pages easy @askfrequently
@rrhoover really looking forward to that Classic Mini 😬
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Justin Jackson
⚡️ transistor.fm
@rrhoover I think the real play is here is "make gaming social again." If you look at the teaser video most of the examples are people playing the Switch together, in real meat-space.
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Michael AhdootCo-founder of Habit Nest
@rrhoover @mattbraun @cm0nt0y4 If you're a fan of SMRPG, I highly recommend this mod for it -- one of the coolest things I've ever played (FF characters & Pokemon in a SMRPG game!?) http://www.insanedifficulty.com/...
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BrianBest
Software Developer
This looks amazing, but that battery life better be equally amazing.
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