Use Nintendo Switch controllers with the NES Classic with this adapter

The release also marks the launch of the first epic Nintendo Switch game, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, which breaks new boundaries while honoring the origins of the acclaimed series.

The video game giant’s fortunes had been mixed over the past year, with its Pokemon GO mobile game achieving runaway success before suffering a serious decline in active users after its first few weeks.

Switch went on sale in Japan around 9:00 am local time on Friday. I particularly wanted to know why I would buy the Switch when I have Nintendo games on my 3DS, how they’re going to deliver on their game promises and whether this tablet-like device has nongaming functions.

Kyoto-based Nintendo is aiming to move about two million Switch consoles in its first month.

The interview itself has not been published yet but an excerpt from it has been posted on Twitter by New York Times reporter, Nick Wingfield.

The idea is to give gamers a more immersive experience with realistic physical sensations matched to what is happening on-screen. However, the franchise has always been marked by a lack of originality, as almost all “Zelda” games following the 1991 Super Nintendo classic “The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past” have recycled that seminal game’s structure. But there are scores more in the pipeline, Nintendo has said. And one upside of globalization is that it’s usually no longer tenable for Japanese game companies to wait too long to release their games around the world – just look at the simultaneous global launch of Final Fantasy XV. I don’t have to carry a gamepad with me, just my Nintendo Switch.

We haven’t experienced this issue with our retail unit (yet), and it is indeed sitting on a metal surface (cable PVR box) right beside an Xbox One with three USB-3.0 drives connected, but it is a fairly open area. Nintendo’s hybrid portable/living room console is an odd beast indeed, significantly buoyed by the peerless Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild but still needing to stand on its own two feet. Once the console finally made it into reviewers’ hands, it was discovered that the Nintendo Switch’s Joy-Con controllers also worked with PCs and smartphones as a standard Bluetooth gamepad. The console is a miniature version of the Nintendo Entertainment System, released in the ’80s. Most potential buyers are already used to playing games on smartphones and TVs, and that has fueled skepticism over whether Nintendo will find a market for a combined experience.

Ensure your console has the latest system update.