It's the first episode of the new year, welcome to the year 2017 and Connectivity 217.\n\nThis week a new staffer joins the Connectivity fray, Kelton Rice. Alongside him, Matt West hosts along with Adam Abou-Nasr and Bryan Rose.\n\nThe feature topic is all about the year 2016, the guys go over the various happenings from Nintendo over the past year, along with a bit of discussion about the upcoming Switch event.\n\nThe musical selection this week is a medley of Nintendo tracks performed by the WDR Radio Orchestra Cologne, FILMharmonic Choir.\n\nWe also had a hiccup with the recording this week, so apologies if the recording quality is a bit lower than usual.\n\nNintendo World Report is now on Patreon, and high rollers can name their topic for Connectivity, so head over to our Patreon page if you want to support us.\n\nConnectivity has joined Twitter, so be sure to follow @ConnectivityNWR to be up to date on any announcements. We are wanting more listener participation, so feel free to ask questions, they may show up in the show! \n\nPlease send in some hard-hitting questions for the Connectivity gang to ponder over: the address is connectivity@nintendoworldreport.com