'I spent today playing Nintendo Switch'

Nintendo has announced that its new console, the Nintendo Switch, will be released on 3 March for £279.99.

For a lot of fans, the next two months will be an agonising wait, but not for Dan Maher.

He's a gaming expert and spent today trying out the console at a launch event in London.

Partly because we asked him to - and partly to rub in his good fortune - Dan has told Newsbeat exactly what it's like to play the Nintendo Switch.

The verdict

"The overall verdict is quite positive. After the presentation we were given, which started at the ungodly hour of 4am, I think my feelings were mixed," says Dan.

"I mainly played a game called Arms. It's a sort of futuristic boxing competition where both of the participants have huge spring-loaded arms and you use the console's detachable controllers to move them.

"It's a really good advert for the fidelity of the motion controllers because they are very, very accurate.

"You use them to move your fighter around, you use them to punch, you use them to activate special moves and block and it works really well.

"So if you've got memories of Wii Sports boxing, which was just flailing around and hoping you win, it's a far cry from that. It really is quite precise and tactile."