My Switch Impressions

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I'm really pleased with the feel of the console, I haven't tried it unlocked yet but Zelda looks great on the TV, and gives the sort of wow factor that I remember from the 64 games.

When Link walks out of the shrine at the start and you see the Vista before you I just grinned like an idiot, it's wonderful.

I don't think the Joycons are difficult to use, I have large hands which I thought would make it harder to use such a small controller, it doesn't. My gripe with them is that they can be difficult to remove and take the shoulder button bumper off when deployed as smaller controllers. I would be annoyed at the lack of a charging controller but considering their 10 hour battery life that would seem unreasonable. I'm hoping that Nintendo will in time bring out a controller dock that both charges and has a headphone slot. For these small niggly reasons you can see it was rushed to market for BOTW.

I do also miss the dual screens of the Wii u, a concept that I find it hard to live without now, I LOVED having a map on the screen in front of me, or being able to equip items/arrange my inventory. Can anyone imagine playing xcx having to navigate to a menu map? An idea dead before it's time, and while Nintendo hinted they may provide backwards compatibility for older controllers I'm pretty sure they mean wiimotes and pro controllers, I doubt the switch has power capacity to spare to run the external screen of the Wii u gamepad

All in all though I'm extremely happy with the console, playing 1-2 switch with my girlfriend and Zelda solo I don't feel like I've been ripped off at all. Zelda is absolutely one of those games you HAVE to experience, and as the positive reviews and hype roll out I think it will push systems. Hence why nintendo rushed this console, they know it's a system defining game and would have been wasted on the already sentenced U.


I've seen people criticizing the price, saying you wouldn't take a device of this value out of the house, like they seemingly forgot the cost of their smartphones.. New iPhones generally at double the cost for instance.

The peripheral price will come down, it always does after manufacturing is refined and ramped up.

But I'm a very happy switch owner and don't understand any doom and gloom over the system.