The Nintendo Swap

The Nintendo Swap (Codenamed Project Criss Cross) is an all-in-one console that uses both 3DS cartridges and Switch cartridges. It is planned for reveal at E3 2018, and will hopefully release sometime in the 4th quarter of 2018. However, the Game Swap function, the highlight feature, is holding some developers back, so fans are fearing a delay to 2019.   
== Notable Features ==
* It will feature a similar design to the 3DS Line, but will not use a 3D screen. The top screen will have an OLED panel, whilst the touch screen will be around the size of the New Nintendo 3DS top screen.
* It is compatible with the Nintendo Switch Dock. The OLED screen can display another game (Either a Switch game or 3DS game), but you cannot play it. You can press a button on the new controllers (name TBD) to turn from the game on the TV to the game on the OLED.
* It is compatible with Joy-Cons fully, as it is part Nintendo Switch.
* It will have 2 game card slots, for the TV mode's Game Swap function: one for the 3DS and one for the Switch/Swap, as the carts are the same shape and size.
* It will finally remove the original DS/DSi game cards compatibility, a feature fans are sad to see go.
== Controller Features ==
The new controllers will have a new button, named the 'Game Swap Button'. It will only be used in TV Mode with a Nintendo Switch Dock, and it switches your game from the game on the TV to the paused game on the OLED. This feature is fittingly called 'Game Swap'.
For the Joy-Cons, press the R, L, ZR and ZL buttons to give you a Game Swap.  The Wii Remote is not compatible with Game Swap, as Nintendo have stated 'There are simply not enough buttons to do it'. Reggie summed it up perfectly, saying 'There's just an A, B, +, -, 1, 2 and D-Pad. Not much to go off of.'
The Nintendo Swap will have it's own Joy-Cons, with added Swap Buttons, going for around $50.
==Games==
The Nintendo Swap's game cartridges will be shaped like the Nintendo Switch carts, to keep manufacturing costs down. The launch line up includes:
*Mario Kart 9 (or Mario Kart Swap, as it was revealed)
*New Super Mario Bros. Swap
*The Legend of Zelda DX (The original LoZ, but DX)
*Minecraft
*An assortment of Neo Geo games, avalible for download on the eShop
*All games for the 3DS
*All games for the Nintendo Switch
==Accesorys==
*There is a planned Disc Reader, which would plug in via the USB-C charging slot. It lets you read all Wii U games. Unfortunately, the idea of having 3 game slots, one for 3DS, one for Wii and one for the Nintendo Switch/Swap, with the fact that the Swap has only the power of the Nintendo Switch, is holding Nintendo back, making fans fear a 2020 release, or downright canceltation.
**However, hope is not lost, as Nintendo is trying to make it 'Small, but adds enough power to the handheld to run 3 games.' indicating that the Disc Reader will add a small extra processer.
**If there are 3 games running at once, and you dock the console, the OLED will show half of both games. If Game Swapping, then the Swap will give you an option to select which game you want to swap to.
**The Joy-Cons will be used as Wii U Remotes, as games like World of Goo and Little Inferno both use them as they would Wii Remotes.
***There is hope that the Nintendo Swap will get some sort of DVD reader functionality with the Disc Reader, but it is thought Nintnedo may not have this happen.
==Timeline==
*September 5, 2017 - Nintendo announces Project Criss Cross in a suprise announcment within a Nintendo Direct
*September 17, 2017 - A leaked schimatic shows planned Wii Remote functions, but fans are sceptical, seeing as the Wii and it's technology are 11 years old.
*December 2, 2017 - A secret picture published online, in low-level security, shows the Joy-Cons being tested with some sort of new console. People are wondering if this is a hevily modded Nintendo Switch in the Nintendo Switch dock, or Project Criss Cross with Joy-Con compatibility.
*December 21, 2017 - Amazon.co.uk accidently lists a new 'Swap-Joy-Con', but removes it within it's first 10 seconds on the site. However, one lucky fan got a screenshot of it listed with no picture. It was going to be sold for $60, or £50.
*February 5, 2018 - The '任天堂のスワップ' gets listed on Amazon.co.jp, which roughly translates to 'Nintendo Swap'.
*June 22, 2018 - Nintendo hosts a Nintendo Direct, and announces what Project Criss Cross is: The Nintendo Swap.
*July 6, 2018 - Nintendo hosts a 'Nintendo Swap Presentaion 2018', unvieling the Swap Joy-Cons, games and more
*November 30, 2018 - The Nintendo Swap is released, along with the Swap-Joy-Cons (sold seperatly.)
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