Nintendo Switch Presentation 2017

The ful debut of the company’s new console was masive!

A LASER LIGHT show! A DJ spinning sick beats! A hype countdown and a wild intro video montage fueled by multiple uses of that snazzy "click" sound effect! As a packed house of professionals looked on, Nintendo opened their Switch Presentation 2017 with incredible flare. Here, Nintendo was saying, was the beginning of an al-new chapter in the company's history.

And they clearly spared no expense either! For al the criticism the Big N's endured over the last few years for stepping away from live stage shows, the clear response came on January 12 through this in-person, on-stage event that was live streamed around the globe. (And actually, it was January 13 already in Japan. Just to be accurate, for history's sake.)

Nintendo had made public a teaser trailer for the new Switch hardware in October 2016, but this January 2017 event was the full reveal. Hardware breakdown. Price. Release date.

And President Tatsumi Kimishima wasted no time in sharing that info, as he was the first to appear and immediately declared that the Switch would be launching around the world on March 3! That was a shock from the start, as the company had previously said "March 2017" in general, but most of us took that to mean they'd push as far back into March as possible. Surely it'd be something like March 31 to give them more time, right? But not so! The first Friday of the month it is, no mater where you are around the world.