Nintendo takes on Sony and Microsoft with new console

Nintendo's Switch console will be released in March. Picture: Contributed

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Nintendo has revealed its next video games platform, the Switch, which combines both a console and a handheld system for the first time.

In a preview trailer posted on the Japanese gaming giant’s website, Nintendo showed the new system, which will enable players to detach the joystick and buttons from their console controller and attach them to a smaller screen slotted into the home console to create a handheld and mobile gaming device.

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The video also showed how the two parts of the detachable controller – dubbed the Joy-Con – can be used without being attached to the mobile screen for a single player, and also as individual controllers for two people to play against one another.