The highly anticipated Nintendo Switch is set to be released on March 3. The NES Classic Edition and 3DS were almost impossible to find, and fans may want to pre-order the Nintendo Switch before it sells out again. The Nintendo console will cost $299.99 USD and those in New York can pre-order it starting Jan. 13, 9:00 a.m. ET.

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According to the official Nintendo NY Twitter account, "A limited quantity of pre-orders for the #NintendoSwitch will begin on 1/13 at 9AM while supplies last at #NintendoNYC." It is still unknown whether other retailers will accept pre-orders as well.

Customers can pre-purchase the Nintendo Switch online from Best Buy, but they have to line up at midnight on Mar. 3 to pick up their consoles. Walmart also had pre-orders up, but it went out of stock right away. Meanwhile, Amazon and GameStop are both not offering pre-orders at the moment.

When the Nintendo Switch is used at home, its component slots connect to a TV set. Games come on small cartridges and about 80 games are currently in development, including a new Mario game called Super Mario Odyssey which will be released late in 2017. Another new title unveiled is a motion-controlled boxing game called Arms, which will be out this Spring.

Several new gaming consoles were launched in 2016, but the Nintendo Switch has been the most raved about in spite of its polarized audiences. The hybrid console was revealed in October, and many think that it could attract Nintendo's first-party market and other gamers who are also PlayStation 4 and Xbox One owners. However, others are skeptical about its housing and graphical and processing power. Now there are reports that porting games from one platform to another will be very hard on the Switch.

A former Ubisoft employee said that the upcoming Nintendo Switch might not come with enough processing power to support current-generation game ports and this could pose a problem for third-party developers. According to Sebastian Aaltonen, "Straightforward code port is not possible" on the Switch.