For the first time since the Wii U launched — and subsequently fizzled — in 2012, Nintendo is making a new video game console. It's called the Nintendo Switch, and it's a $300 home console/portable console hybrid.

You can play it at home. You can play it on-the-go. You can do both!

The console is the tablet. You slide it into a dock, and it's a home console. You slide on the two Joy-Con controllers, and it's a portable console. Simple!

The Switch is nearly here — it's scheduled to launch on March 3, which you may notice is pretty soon. Nintendo offered us a chance to try the system at a January 13 press event in New York City. I was there! Here are some thoughts on that experience.