{"id":91654,"date":"2026-10-20T12:35:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T16:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=91654"},"modified":"2026-10-20T13:37:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T17:37:39","slug":"10-years-after-the-switch-1-reveal-i-still-havent-played-a-game-at-a-rooftop-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=91654","title":{"rendered":"10 Years After The Switch 1 Reveal, I Still Haven\u2019t Played A Game At A Rooftop Party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s now been a full decade since Nintendo announced the first Switch, which is almost hard to believe, given how fresh that reveal trailer still feels in our heads. Heaps of hype and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/why-nintendo-isnt-talking-about-nx-yet-according-t\/1100-6441300\/\">lack of information from Nintendo<\/a> about its Wii U successor, codenamed &#8220;NX,&#8221; led to the company&#8217;s fanbase becoming increasingly restless. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reports and rumors pointed to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/nintendo-nx-is-a-consolemobile-hybrid-has-industry\/1100-6431471\/\">NX as a console-handheld hybrid<\/a>, but Nintendo didn&#8217;t fully unveil the Switch until October 20, 2016 (an announcement preluded by a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NintendoAmerica\/status\/788900063833493504?s=20\">photo of Mario being a creep<\/a>). The three-and-a-half-minute video made it clear how Nintendo wanted players to interact with the Switch, showing several scenarios where people take their games on the go.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rewatching that trailer today, it&#8217;s amusing to look back at how Nintendo foresaw the social impact of the Switch. Some moments from the trailer manifested in reality, while others were hilariously exaggerated. <\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iS-1tDfLxRQ  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You have a guy taking his dog (and his copy of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild) out on a walk, a traveler playing Skyrim on a plane and putting the game on his television upon his arrival home, and professional Splatoon players practicing before their big moment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s now been a full decade since Nintendo announced the first Switch, which is almost hard to believe, given how fresh that reveal trailer still feels in our heads. Heaps of hype and a lack of information from Nintendo about its Wii U successor, codenamed &#8220;NX,&#8221; led to the company&#8217;s fanbase becoming increasingly restless. Reports&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":91656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91657,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91654\/revisions\/91657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}