Just dropping by to express joy at this fact - Nintendo Switch is such a nice console! I got the Lite version and while the risk of eventual stick drift has bee

Just dropping by to express joy at this fact - Nintendo Switch is such a nice console! I got the Lite version and while the risk of eventual stick drift has been weighing heavily on my mind, it's amazing that it runs as well as it does in such a small form factor! It's perhaps like the PSP of our time, but even better - numerous games have been ported to it and optimized so that you can enjoy a lovely gaming experience wherever you are. To me, that shows that you don't always need a 400$ GPU in your gaming PC if you just want to experience a lovely story like Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, or even just play something like Doom. Not only is the console adequately made, feels reasonably comfortable, has a good selection of games and a good UI, but it also indirectly fights back against Wirth's law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law) and proves that gameplay should sometimes be placed above graphics first and foremost and make artists think about the materials that they use, their texture resolutions, the LODs in their models, how efficient their shaders are, as well as how much resources the game code uses. I just wish that Switch development was a bit more open, for example, there are no publicly available releases with packaging functionality for game engines like Godot, but i guess that's just the status quo that we're stuck with. Regardless, i actually sold a PS4 that i won for getting the first place in a programming competition years ago (an acquaintance of mine wanted one and i had some dental fees, so figured that i might as well sell it to him for like 40% of MSRP since i basically got it for free), i probably wouldn't do that with my Switch. Not needing a dedicated monitor is also really nice! I wish that we'll see similarly performant games in the future and that we won't have the platform be sunset anytime soon, maybe instead get something like a Switch Pro or even have different graphics settings/modes in games, which would support the older releases and their thermal envelopes, while also letting the newer hardware also be successfully leveraged for that additional graphic fidelity, for those who care. Hey, i can dream~