I have mixed feelings about it. On one hand, it was a commercial success and likely saved the company. On the other, it marks the end of Nintendo's home console business. Before, Nintendo had two products for sale, handhelds and home consoles, and they offered two distinctly different experiences and software lineups. But with Wii-U's failure, they abandoned the latter and went with what still worked. So while I am happy that they (likely) made the right choice for them, I am saddened that the Nintendo I knew is no more. Same with software. They still make great games, but they don't make software like SMB 3 or OOT where you go, holy *&*, I have never experienced this before! It's becoming more predicable, more paint-with-numbers. The innovation isn't close to what it once was.

Still, I'm happy they're around. And I'm happy people keep buying their products. An industry without them would be dreary, indeed.

A solid 8.

Nintendo's second-best console, behind the SNES (rated 9.5).

The Exclusives are great, lack of backward compatibility drags the score down just a tad little, but weak third-party support is the real problem.

I'll keep it brief: I consider PlayStation exclusives to be better, though I acknowledge Nintendo's quality. But even if the exclusives were on par and I could only choose one console... I certainly wouldn't pick one that can't play RDR 2, Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate 3, Alan Wake 2, GTA V, etc.

Scoring 8 looks fair.
It's a hybrid device that works as portable and home console. Enough quality in games to be called "Great", but not enough to be "Excellent" or above by itself.

For me, it gets a 9/10.

About the only thing holding it back is that it didn't get a new Mario Kart or Donkey Kong, other than that its first party catalogue is superb, there's plenty of good third party games to fill the gaps between them, and the form factor is clever and makes it more flexible and accessible than any prior Nintendo system.

For me, it is second only to the SNES.

I mainly use it for portable gaming, and it's been great so far. Now i need a switch 2 for ocarina