Since the Switch is now entering the waning years of its life, I think it's fair to judge the switch as a whole compared to previous Nintendo consoles.
Good
• While releasing in a poor form, the switch eventually was able to have a decent battery life with later models.
• The gyro controls are nice and make ports such as Resident Evil 5/6 worth playing despite the worse frame rate.
• 3rd party support is fairly good.
Bad
• The switch itself feels very cheaply made and imo, is a very ugly handheld.
• the hardware quality is bad, both in terms of technical specs and in terms of build quality. Joy cons randomly aren't detected when you're playing in handheld mode, and input lag is insufferable when you're playing in docked mode.
• You have to pay for peer to peer online which runs worse than the online on 3ds and Wii U
• There's very few quality first party games on Switch despite having a much larger library. Breath of the Wild is a shallow and repetitive game that lacks long term replayability. Mario Odyssey is a lazy copy and paste fest. Pikmin 4 is a complete insult to the series and removes anything that made it good.
• low effort games like the Mario sports games that have less content than old Wii and GameCube games
• horrible localization and censorship for any first party jrpg
• bad "ports" aka games running on an emulator sold for $60/$50.
•half the best first party games are ports and remakes
•joycon drift
Final rating
4/10.
Good
• While releasing in a poor form, the switch eventually was able to have a decent battery life with later models.
• The gyro controls are nice and make ports such as Resident Evil 5/6 worth playing despite the worse frame rate.
• 3rd party support is fairly good.
Bad
• The switch itself feels very cheaply made and imo, is a very ugly handheld.
• the hardware quality is bad, both in terms of technical specs and in terms of build quality. Joy cons randomly aren't detected when you're playing in handheld mode, and input lag is insufferable when you're playing in docked mode.
• You have to pay for peer to peer online which runs worse than the online on 3ds and Wii U
• There's very few quality first party games on Switch despite having a much larger library. Breath of the Wild is a shallow and repetitive game that lacks long term replayability. Mario Odyssey is a lazy copy and paste fest. Pikmin 4 is a complete insult to the series and removes anything that made it good.
• low effort games like the Mario sports games that have less content than old Wii and GameCube games
• horrible localization and censorship for any first party jrpg
• bad "ports" aka games running on an emulator sold for $60/$50.
•half the best first party games are ports and remakes
•joycon drift
Final rating
4/10.
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