Nintendo Switch
- Manufacturer
- Nintendo
- Released
- 2017
- Generation
- Gen 9
- Type
- Hybrid
- Launch price
- $299
About Nintendo Switch
The Nintendo Switch is a video game console developed by Nintendo and released worldwide in most regions on March 3, 2017. Released in the middle of the eighth generation of home consoles, the Switch succeeded the Wii U and competed with Sony's PlayStation 4 and Microsoft's Xbox One; it also competes with the ninth-generation consoles, the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.
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Library & collector facts
Lineage
Release timeline
- 🇺🇸 North America
- March 3, 2017
Pricing
Launch price (2017)
- 🇺🇸 USD
- $299
- 🇯🇵 JPY
- ¥29,980
- 🇪🇺 EUR
- €330
Controller
Joy-Con / Nintendo Switch Pro Controller
Variants of Nintendo Switch
Hardware specs
- Os
- Nintendo Switch system software
- Cpu
- Quad-core ARM Cortex-A57
- Gpu
- 256 Maxwell (microarchitecture), Maxwell-based CUDA cores, Docked: 768 MHz, 393 GFLOPS, Undocked: 384 MHz, 197 GFLOPS
- Ram
- 4 GB LPDDR4
- Power
- 3.7 Volt, V 15.95 Watt hour, Wh (4,310 mAh) Li-ion battery, Duration: 2.5–6.5 hours/4.5–9 hours, Charger: 7.5 Watt, W 5.0 V 1.5 Ampere, A/39 W 15.0 V 2.6 A, <u>Lite</u>, 3.8 V 13.6 Wh (3,570 mAh) Li-ion battery, Duration: 3–7 hours
- Sound
- Undocked: Linear PCM 2.0 stereo speakers (with pseudo-surround), Docked: Linear PCM 5.1
- Weight
- Original: 297 g, Lite: 277 g, OLED: 319 g
- Dimensions
- (In width x height x depth), Original: 173 × 102 × 14 mm, Lite: 208 × 91 × 14 mm, OLED: 176 × 102 × 14 mm
- Display Output
- Original: 6.2-in, IPS Panel, IPS (237 pixel density, ppi), 720p, Lite: 5.5-in, IPS (267 ppi), 720p, OLED: 7-in, OLED (210 ppi), 720p, Docked: 480p/720p/1080p via HDMI
- Storage Internal
- Original/Lite: 32 GB eMMC, OLED: 64 GB eMMC
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