New Releases: Week of March 5, 2017

This is the week of the Nintendo Switch!  The console launched on 3/3 with a handful of titles to scratch your switch itch. Other platforms gave Nintendo some runway with just a few games trickling out.  Any 2old2players pick up the switch at launch?  Leave some comments with your first impressions!

Editor's Note: Apologies for all the weird fonts in the article. Our editing software seems to have lost its mind this week and wouldn't let me switch them. :p

Nintendo Switch Console & Launch Titles

Release Date: March 3, 2017

Platforms: Nintendo Switch (NS)

Nintendo’s latest console debuted on Friday March 3rd with a handful of titles. It’s dubbed the Switch as it can either be used hooked up to a television or as stand alone tablet gaming with a touch screen and controllers. For games Nintendo has gone back to cartridges that run off flash memory or titles are available digitially.  Here’s a quick rundown of the games available at launch.

• 1-2-Switch

• Looks like “the Wii-Sports” of the Switch will showcase the new functionality with a bunch of mini games.

• Super Bomberman R

• The first Bomberman title in several years celebrates the franchise's 33rd birthday

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• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

• Oh crap the new Zelda game WAS a launch title?! I guess I should have pre-ordered...Or we could get the WiiU version and wait it out.

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• I Am Setsuna

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• A jRPG that came out for Sony and Windows devices in February

• Just Dance 2017

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• How will the new controls translate to this popular dance franchise?

• Snipperclips

• A Nintendo eShop co-operative puzzle/party game

• Human Resource Machine

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• This already popular visual programming game landed as a launch title

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• Little Inferno

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• This sandbox puzzle game that came to the WiiU in 2012 is also a launch title
• Little Inferno Trailer

• Skylanders: Imaginator

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• Toys to Life that launched in other consoles in October 2016 arrives with the NS

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• The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth

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• This includes the original game and the Afterbirth expansion

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• World of Goo

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• Indie darling of 2008 is being resurrected for the next generation of Switch gamers

Non-Switch Titles

Lego Worlds

Release Date: March 7, 2017

Platforms: PC, PS4, XBone

Looks like Lego Minecraft so pretty much the perfect babysitter!

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands

Release Date: March 7, 2017

Platforms: PC, PS4, XBone

The first open world game in the Ghost Recon franchise.