Damn, that's hardcore. Respect 👊 

My Switch doesn't leave the dock.

Sell me a console without a display, battery, dock, joycons and offer it at a lower price and I will buy several.

The hardcore Nintendo gamer is a dying breed (literally), so a home console as much as personally we would love one, not enough people as wee all age would buy it, the general public gamer prefers the portable/hybrid route as Nintendo isn't the cool home console to have, that mantle is Sony's.

Several? Why?

I played BotW and TotK on a 92" screen, old 1080p projector. I've also played TotK on my 4K HDR 65" tv, yet more often on the old 52" 1080p TV sitting next to 4K TV. Play while watching.

Yes it's low resolution, but that doesn't bother me. Before the initial patches the stuttering frame rate was the painful part, especially since it interfered with the abilities. Resolution you quickly get used to, plus I technically play at the same or lower resolution in VR ;) The amount of fine detail distracting my eyes in Astrobot is more painful after all that VR :p (Cool physics, but I need a broom to clean this place up lol)

I did miss HDR in TotK. The lighting of BotW and TotK are screaming HDR but instead it's often low contrast. These games would really shine with proper HDR implementation. But as silver lining, it looked exactly the same on projector, 4K HDR and 1080p LCD tv...


What I find painfully bad is playing on a handheld. Tiny screen in my hands, tiny controllers. Dealing with glare on the screen or go sit in the dark to play. My hands start cramping after a while and my neck starts hurting from sitting in an awkward position with the Switch on my lap. So I leave it in the dock now.

Yeah my Switch is already essentially a home console too; I only ever play it in docked mode as I never got into handhelds and prefer playing on a TV.
I realize though that I'm a small minority of the Switch player base.

Really interesting results. I hold no hope but I'm glad to see I'm not the only one.

That would actually be a big reason for me to come back.

My view on this matter have changed a bit since my backlog grown. Usally I get whatever Nintendo releases to be able to play their games but I have already two generations of Mario platformers that I have not played. Me not wanting to buy a new traditional console have more to do with limited time than anything else.

You aren't on the Nintendo train right now or you don't plan to upgrade to Nextendo?