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Yep, the Switch is a technological wonder. The last console I owned was a Game Boy Advance. The Switch is wonderful for so many reasons: It deserves its name.
by scrollaway 9y ago
Yep, the Switch is a technological wonder.
The last console I owned was a Game Boy Advance. The Switch is wonderful for so many reasons:
It deserves its name. It really is a flexible console; the snappable/detachable joycons, the controller, the 4-way joycon sharing, TV mode, etc... none of it is a gimmick, it's all useful. And different games have different favoured settings (eg. SMO is super fun with the joycons detached, but Stardew Valley is best snapped).
Lots of games just feel great on the Switch, even games that were not originally designed for it.
And Nintendo just killed it with its own launch titles. Super Mario Odyssey and Breath of the Wild are both console sellers on their own. Mario Kart is incredibly fun and easy to whip out when you have your console around friends.
And that thing is a beast. Breath of the Wild runs really well on it (except for load times. but that's very forgivable). I often think about this: Breath of the Wild is a mobile game (!!!)... Crazy. And it has pretty good battery life given what it runs.
The main thing I don't like with the Switch is the low disk space. That it can't even have SMO, BOTW and Mario Kart at the same time is kind of a head-scratcher for me. I still need to get an SD card for it (at least that's an option).
- ReverseCold 9y ago(In response to the storage complaints...) Please buy game carts instead of eShop games. Instead of renting a license indefinitely (eShop) you get an actual piece of plastic and some paper (resale value later) which you actually own.
- BoorishBears 9y agoThere are games coming on carts that still require a large download, and 64GB cartridges have been delayed
- bitwize 9y agoIndeed. The new paradigm seems to be to combine the worst of both worlds. In PS4-land, the new normal for disc-based games is they cannot be played without the disc, but install their complete data to your PS4's hard drive, occupying tens of gigabytes of space.
- BoorishBears 9y agoMicrosoft tried to solve this by using physical disks as the equivalent of a download code + a medium to reduce how much you have to download off the internet, but the backlash forced them to go back. It's true it'd have killed the secondary market, but I'd have appreciated not needing the disc to play after the initial install.
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- crtasm 9y agoSame on xbox. Loading times would be unacceptably long without doing so, as I understand it.
- scrollaway 9y agoThat's a lot less convenient and game carts can break, get dirty and no longer work, etc. I don't even own the console (it's not rooted). As long as I don't, this doesn't matter. Once I do own it, I will make backups of my downloads, which I can actually own.