Welcome to another episode of Kotaku's split screen. It's October 27th, 2016. My name is Kirk Hamilton, and we have got a good show for you today. It's all Nintendo all the time, as Jason Shrier returns from his soon-to-end

sabbatical to talk with me about the Nintendo Switch, Nintendo's new kind-to-handheld kind-a-set-top

console. We're going to test the limits of our deduction ability by taking one trailer

and figuring out how many guesses we can make based on that trailer. We're also going to

answer some reader questions,

talk about Civilization 6, which we've both been playing, do a quick run through some of the

other games we've been playing, and here's some exciting personal news from Mr. Jason

Schreier. Stick around.

And here we are for our last show of October.

Jason Schreier is back on the show, not quite back from sabbatical, but still technically here to talk with us this week.

Hey, Jason, how's it going?

Hi, Kirk.

It has been crazy.

I've been traveling and working on my book, aka not working on my book, because I downloaded Civilization 6 last night. And yeah, it's been a fun time. My sabbatical is almost over, which is going to be weird. It's going to be weird. I mean, to adjust to Kataku life after four weeks off. Yeah, having recently done

that is definitely weird. It's nice. It's probably been nice, though, right, to kind of get on

your own schedule and do your own thing? It's nice. It's weird. It's hard to stay focused and not

just be like, oh, I'm on sabbatical. I'm going to go play six for five hours. Yeah, it's definitely something that I found was that as much as Kotaku is an exhausting schedule,

you're constantly on, you're constantly paying attention.

When you get away from it, the structure that it can give your life,

it definitely felt like I was missing that when I didn't have it.

I'm sure it's something I would adjust to if I had had a six-month sabbatical or something,

but it was noticeable for me, too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Should we start with our features?

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