Day 1 reviews are kinda pointless anyway for a game system as others have said.

The DS (the most successful Nintendo system ever) really wouldn't deserve more than a 6/10 on launch day either. 

The PS3, which arguably ended up as probably the best overall system last gen, likely wouldn't do much better than 6.5/10 on launch day either. 

You can judge basically the build quality of game hardware on launch day, but pretty much all game hardware these days is fairly solidly built ... no one makes pieces of crap hardware anymore. 

"The positives reviews you like" wether I like them or not is irrelevant, the reception is mostly positive, that's a fact.

He has a valid point, you don't need to buy it now, but he means is rushed mostly in the sense that still has few big games and it doesn't have VC and some online features that are supossed to come in the future, he still thinks is awesome for what I read and if you don't really mind to miss those things at launch then there is no big problem.

ign in 2017 LUL

Switch 6.7
Too much water. Too small for a home console, but too big for a handheld. Can't acess eshop before the oficial release, cant put on vertical.

that IGN reviewer is negative as fuck, he acts as if just because you can't play Breath of the Wild in portable mode for over 3 hours makes it fail as portable, and also whines about it (essentially) not being able to fit in a pocket. Get a carrying case and stop being so negative IGN! for gods sake people constantly use tablets and I've never heard of a tablet getting a bad review because its, uh, too big to put in a pocket

also the whole CONCEPT is that its a hybrid, that its both worlds rather than prioritizing one over the other. The IGN review seems to indicate that if a system wants to do a balanced home/handheld thing that it will basically fail in their eyes simply because A) its not small enough for what they consider a good portable size, and B) because its not as powerful as the competition in home console mode

what a joke

his biggest complaints are literally things that are the DRAW of the system. There would be no way at $300 to release a hybrid handheld/home console that mastered both ends in terms of great battery life and gigantic power, the two contradict each other, at least this point in available affordable portable technology

there is a reason Apple isn't releasing some Game tablet that will play PS4 games- because its not an easy thing to achieve without killing a lot of other things regarding a tablet (beyond even just battery life).

Lame early review, the Switch doesn't seem like its for the guy who's reviewing it, and in fact it seems like he is somewhat against this hybrid 'non hardcore home console' idea. Would have rathered they had someone more balanced review the system, you don't put a guy on it who wants PS4 level specs and/or doesn't grasp the appeal of a tablet larger screen for on the go

already preordered for pickup tomorrow night but still, I would take this review with a grain of salt people who are considering the system. IGN seems much more negative in their review than other game outlets and it appears the reviewer possibly just doesn't like the concept of the hybrid

When a critic is spending an entire paragraph to complain that he can't flip the console horizontally on his shelf, as if that's some giant deal, then you know that there's some sort of negative agenda there

there's something questionable about IGN deciding to put basically a guy who is negative about Nintendo on to review the system. They should have put someone more in the middle.

When the guy is whining about, essentially, the hybrid concept as a whole (which naturally would make for a home console that's not as powerful as the competition, that being the whole point, that it trades off power for more gaming options and portability) as well as whether the system can fit comfortably on his shelf.... that says a lot.

i.e. he's biased for whatever reason or doesn't like Nintendo

you'll notice in his whole 'review' beyond a few small parts he essentially doesn't really have any arguments for the console quality, ui, controls- any of it being bad. 

at one point he even phrases a sentence that says something along the lines of, 'if such and such haven't already bothered you then there's this and this (insert a few negative things)'. Very strange wording in some of the article from what is supposed to be an unbiased reviewer

In the end its fair to criticize the launch library, its fair to criticize the controls (if you don't like them), its fair to criticize a number of things- but when your primary criticism is essentially that you don't like the hybrid concept because its not a tiny portable and now a powerful home console- that's just incredibly weak.

The guy even says that the UI menus in the system are so-so, when everyone for the most part has raved about them being smooth and quick from launching the system, to going through menus, to starting games.

Whatever. I never did like IGN but a 6.7 just seems like an especially silly early rating when the quality of the system appears extremely high and the biggest negatives the guy has are essentially about it fitting on his shelf and being a hybrid. Note: having a poor launch library doesn't really speak about the quality of the system, and I would presume a 'system review' is more about rating the actual hardware

Note: the battery complaints are getting old, Nintendo stuck the largest battery they possibly could into the system if you look at the 'guts' pictures. Try playing the Witcher 3 on a tablet, even an optimized Shield type of thing, and see what happens. Mobility power is just not there yet for high demanding apps, without melting the system. maybe if you attached a big fan to the system to keep it cool

I'd be nice to give the original ds a 6/10 :p it was so bulky and ugly. The DS lite was much better

That no charger will sitting on the kickstand is actually a big oversight by Nintendo. It's one of the big features for it, but now you can only play for a little while before having to stop to charge it? Well, unless you make sure to play it with friends right after charging. Even then, you're not going to be able to marathon a game. They really should have moved the USB port to the top. From what the reviewer says, it seems to be a jack of all trades, but a master of none. I'm sure Nintendo fans will love it, but until it gets a serious price cut, I can see this thing following the same 3DS sales curve it saw a few months after launch.

Do you really think you are gonna be playing with the console while sitting on a kickstand for more than 3 hours regularly? or in the case of Games like 1,2 switch maybe more than 5 hours? Is not like you cant connect it while you are playing it in portable mode easily, because you can, if you think something like that is gonna affect the sales of the console in any even remotely meaningful way you need to think it twice.

Yet another user who firmly believes that anyone who is negative about the Switch must have a negative agenda. Have you consider he has no problem with a hybrid, but has a problem with this hybrid? Have you consdered that perhaps technology hasn't advanced enough to where a hybrid console makes sense in this day and age given how compromised the gameplay experience is in each mode? Just because you're willing to accept the compromises Nintendo had to make in order to make the console possible doesn't mean that everyone else has to as well.

The fact that the reviewer has to pull his Switch out of his TV stand to insert a game or charge the controllers because it can't be placed horizontally is a legimate concern. Just because it may be a problem for YOU in YOUR living room doesn't mean it won't be a legimate annoyance to those where it will. You'd think for the $90 Nintendo is charging for the dock you'd be able to change its orientation so that it would fit in any reasonable TV stand, but that's just me though.