Getting excited for Nintendo's new game console? Maybe you haven't heard about it? It's called the Nintendo Switch, and it arrives in one week.

The Switch is a home console and a portable console all at once, like so:

Left: home console. Right: portable console. Nintendo

Here's the quick and dirty:

It's called Nintendo Switch.

It's scheduled to launch on March 3.

It starts at $299.

Nintendo has a gaggle of games starring its most prominent creations in the works.

Even though the console doesn't arrive in stores for another week, Nintendo sent one over earlier this week. I've been using the Switch for 48 hours now — both as a home console and a portable — and I have a heap of stuff to tell you. Let's dig in.