New Nintendo Switch 'Mario Red & Blue' edition unveiled

New Nintendo Switch 'Mario Red & Blueish' edition unveiled

(Prototype credit: Wario64/Nintendo)

Mario super-fans rejoice, there's a Nintendo Switch only-a for you lot! Appear today (Thursday, January. 12), the Mario Red & Blue Edition Switch is the latest stylish variant of the ultra-popular Nintendo Switch we know and love already.

As you tin see in the above photograph, this Switch in enveloped in the plumber's signature red, as likewise are the dock and Joy-Con controllers. Bluish accent colors are found with the Joy-Con grip and wrist straps. Nintendo's site lists it as priced at $299, and going on auction on Feb. 12.

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Consider it the successor to the wildly popular Animal Crossing: New Horizons Edition Switch, but with a little more. As a bonus, Nintendo's throwing in a matching conveying case that's adorned with elements of Mario'south wardrobe: his gloves (in a fist), overalls, and his cap and mustache.

The yellow accent marks (for those gold coins he'southward been saving up for retirement), are found in the carrying case zippers and the clips on the Joy-Con straps.

Nintendo Switch Mario case — (Image credit: Nintendo)

At $299, it's priced no higher than a normal Switch. And while Nintendo isn't calling information technology a express edition, if the Animal Crossing edition fix any precedents, this model will likely become hard to notice later on its initial release.

Nintendo'south design for the Mario Switch leaves us wanting a picayune more (your mileage may vary, of course). The dock is a flake spartan, and could take used the iconography seen on the case.

This is the latest Mario product proclamation in its months-long Super Mario Bros. 35th Ceremony celebration. Nintendo began celebrating its icon's birthday on Sept. 3, 2020, and it volition end on March 31.

Today, Nintendo likewise revealed Bowser's Fury, the expansion game that'due south being packed into the port of Super Mario 3D World for Nintendo Switch. Here's the trailer showing it off:

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