The Nintendo Wii U never really did take off. Now, Nintendo has a new offering on the market: their Switch console. Is it going to be the great success Nintendo hope it could be? It definitely has potential.

What is the Nintendo Switch?

The console itself is essentially a tablet that docks through a television. It also has portable controllers that can be attached to form a gamepad or can be used individually. The console comes with everything that is required to dock it, making it easy to view the picture on the television screen. The picture quality is excellent and it all works very smoothly.

Some people have raised concerns about the price of the Switch, and it also doesn’t have that many games available just yet. However, it is a versatile and intelligent piece of technology that works very well and could really begin to take off in the coming months.

Two new games will be released later this year for Nintendo’s most recent console to hit the market, the Nintendo Switch.

The games are called “Troll and I”, and “Battle Princess Madelyn”. This will help to boost the Nintendo Switch games market, as it is currently a little thin on the ground. The games both look very different so they will cover a lot of bases, and they have already started to generate a lot of interest.

Troll and I will allow users to play as a human character named Otto, or Otto’s sidekick Troll. Other humans and orcs are the enemies and the aim is to destroy both.

Battle Princess Madelyn is a 50-stage game that makes use of retro pixel-art graphics. It is reminiscent of an old arcade game, something along the lines of Ghouls N’ Ghosts.

Both games will also be available for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.

The past three months have been pretty much the best ever for Microsoft’s Xbox One. Not in terms of absolute sales – nothing tops the holiday season sales, after all – but in terms of finally getting a solid run at the top of some major markets, ahead of Sony’s thus-far dominant PS4. The enormous amount of hard work that the Xbox team has put into recovering from the console’s disastrous announcement and muted launch is finally starting to pay off, and a console war that’s so far seen Sony win almost every round by default is finally starting to heat up.

If the Xbox can maintain much of this inertia in the UK and USA over the coming months as we approach the holidays, it should have a very, very solid Christmas, and start to look like a realistic competitor to PS4 rather than an also-ran.

Xbox Play Anywhere is a cross-buy program that will allow gamers who digitally purchase games to play them on both their console and PC at no extra cost.

This means that if you’re tired of playing a game on your Xbox One, you can pick it up where you left off on your Windows 10 PC, taking your save games, add-ons, and achievements with you.

To make Play Anywhere work for you you will, of course, need access to a PC running Windows 10 and an Xbox One. Once you have these then all you have to do is make sure that the Windows 10 Anniversary update has been installed on your PC and that your Xbox One is running the latest update.

Then it’s simply a matter of logging into your Xbox Live/Microsoft account and downloading your Xbox Play Anywhere games!

The Mario series has been consistently great since its inception and has maintained (and in some cases, improved) from console to console. The NES/SNES classics built the foundation, the N64 launched with arguably the series’ best game, the Gamecube era more or less continued what worked without ruining it, and both Mario Galaxy titles have proven that Mario is still relevant in the current console generation. There’s a lot of pride in that: you can’t take longevity for granted here. Consider this: Sonic the Hedgehog has been a werewolf. A werewolf.

Give props, folks; you can’t take this kind of production for granted. Mario has had an unprecedented streak of success and continues to hit new peaks. That’s unheard of considering the years that Mario has been under those overalls. I mean, It’s not like Conker is still having bad fur days.