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Last night during a live press conference, Nintendo unveiled a wealth of new information on the Nintendo Switch.
The presentation included price point and release date and also a ton of game reveals and trailers.
Unfortunately, only two games will be available at launch with one following in the next month.
Yeah, Mario Kart 8 'Deluxe' is coming, but we'll get to that later.
The Switch will launch on March 3, 2017 and will retail for $299.99 here in the US.
Additional Joy-Cons will sell for $79.99 for both R and L and $49.99 for individual Joy-Con.
This is everything you will receive in the box when you purchase a Nintendo Switch.
The control of the console will rely on these Joy-Cons, which serve a variety of purposes including being used as wiimotes, NES style controllers, combining into one controller, and snapping on the sides of the tablet-style console for portable play.
We're not even totally sure that's all of the uses either.
Basically Joy-Cons work as a traditional controller together but are near mirror images so that you hand one off to a friend in order to play certain games.
The Switch will boast a 6.2 inch touch screen on the tablet with a resolution of 1280 x 720.
It will have 32GB of internal memory with the ability to use SD cards to expand it.
The battery life will be around 6 hours, but likely will be far less while playing games. Nintendo reports that Breath of the Wild will be playable for 3 hours on one charge.
The docking bay, which connects the Nintendo Switch tablet to your TV in order to play as a traditional console.
Among the biggest game trailers released was this new, in-depth, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild trailer. Wow does this game look astounding.
This game will launch with the Switch on March 3, 2017.
The other game launching with the Switch is more of a tech demo. Like Wii Sports, except you have to buy it.
So really when we said the Switch had two launch titles we were lying, there's just one, because this doesn't count.
Mario Kart 8 is getting a 'Deluxe' version for the Switch, which boasts a load of added characters and updates.
It releases on April 28th.
Yeah, that's right. A new Mario 3D platformer.
Mario leaves the mushroom kingdom for what looks to be American cities (?).
Nintendo has described this game as a sandbox-style game which makes it sound a lot like Super Mario GTA to us.
This is a new game in the works from Square Enix.
The entire presentation if you feel inclined to watch it.


On Saturday, I took a TOEFL exam in Tübingen. There are indeed other locations where you can take the TOEFL, but for me it was the best location.
The examination takes place directly at the University of Wilhelmstr.22. This is the TOEFL iBT (Internet-Based Testing). The registration to the test can be done online only, on the TOEFL website. More information can be found here.
All exam tasks are prepared directly in the U.S. and must be executed on a computer.
The test takes about 4.5 hours. Only between Listening and Speaking is a 10 minute break.
So it's pretty exhausting. And to make matters worse, it is not allowed to bring anything in the testing room. Also, nothing to drink!
The time for individual tasks is very short. It is sometimes really depressing.
In Tübingen the exam is taken by 8 people at once. At the latest in the Speaking section it was total chaos. Everybody speaks into his microphone, and in the little room it was pretty loud.
I do not know yet, if I passed the exam. Some of the answers I was obviously just guessing.
Thus it is the time for each task very short, I recommend everyone to prepare for the exam, and particularly for the different task types.
There are plenty of books and online sample tests on the Internet.
Structure and background of my exam preparation, I will describe in a separate post.