| LivingMetal said: I'm about to pick up a Switch and probably as early as this weekend. Buying a Switch was always in the works so it was eventually going to happen. I just kept putting it off until that "right time." As I type this post, my daughter is enjoy her last day in school as a field day so she'll be coming home with her final report card. I promised her we'd get a Switch if she brings home all As for the last 9-week. Going by previous trends in academic achievement, IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. So this is not a thread about "Do a buy a Switch or not?" because the answer is "DO." But may I get any advice or suggestions on what I need to consider? Here's what I've been thinking so far: 1) I'm eventually going to get a second docking station to we can easily... "switch" between two TYs. 2) I don't see us being very portable with the Switch unless we go on long trips so I still need to consider a carrying case. 3) How often do you need a second set of Joy Cons? 4) The games that mainly interest her are Smash, Arms, Pokemon Go Eevee, Mario Cart 8. 5) Games that I'm interested in are Zelda, Metroid, Mario, Shin Megami Tensei, JRPGs 6) SD Card advice I'll flesh things out more as we discuss. Thanks, all. |
(1) I picked up a second dock for this but almost never play on the second TV lol. But it's nice to have, if for nothing else, at least so I can travel and have a dock with me without disconnecting the one hooked up to my main TV.
(2) I play my Switch in handheld mode probably 85% of the time. Even at home. I may be an outlier here, but that's by far my favorite feature of it. Either way, if you do think you'll EVER take it out of the house, I think you should have a carrying case. I also keep all my game cards in my case, as well, so if not for travel, at least it's a good game card case.
(3) My kids like to play Mario Party with me, and most of the games I play for local multiplayer, you want a full modern gamepad for, so the second set of joy cons get their fair amount of use.
(4) All those games are solid, except maybe Arms. I find Arms overpriced, but if you can get it at a budget price it's a solid buy. You'll want a second set of joy cons if you want to play together though.
(5) Solid list, again. This Zelda is pretty much inarguably one of the top 5 best Zeldas, and many will consider it either the best or second best (other contenders are LttP, OoT, and MM). I've played through it multiple times. Metroid, of course nobody knows if it'll be good or not, but I mean, it probably will be.
(6) SD card advice = get the biggest one you're willing to put in it. There are enough free games and demos that you'll almost certainly fill a small SD card even if you otherwise buy nothing digitally. If you DO want to buy digitally, you'll run out of space FAST. I go about 50/50 for digital vs physical and I filled a 128GB SD card; recently swapped that one out and put in a 256GB one.
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