227: I have one. It's nice because if something crazy comes up and interrupts you while docked, you can just use it in portable mode. The specs may not be anything special, and a disgusting number of indie games are dumped onto its store without any thought given to their performance or stability, but it's flexible and has some decent first-party games (including the first decent Fire Emblem in a long, long time).

It's definitely not the ideal platform for The Witcher 3 if you have more powerful options—we're talking about a console that can't even run the first-party Link's Awakening remake without huge swings in the frame rate—but it's cool that those who only have a Switch can play it.

To a certain degree, the hardware gets a pass because it's Nintendo and nostalgia for their heyday makes it hard for people to criticize them, but the Switch has some legitimate pluses. Especially for older people with a time crunch.

Tauto: if something crazy comes up and interrupts you while docked < This bit has me confused. And they are Switch Lite, apparently they came out this year.

227: Ah, that explains it. The original Switch has a dock that connects to a TV or monitor with an HDMI cable and power cord, and you can drop it into that dock to play on the TV at 1080p. Usually upscaled. Switching back and forth between TV and handheld mode is seamless, so you can pull it out of the dock and bring it with you without losing any progress.

Switch Lites are more like a successor to the 3DS line. I think they have slightly better hardware than a normal Switch? They can't connect to the TV or a dock, though, so it's all about the handheld play. That strikes me as being needlessly limiting, but I've never actually used one myself.

227: It's definitely not the ideal platform for The Witcher 3 if you have more powerful options—we're talking about a console that can't even run the first-party Link's Awakening remake without huge swings in the frame rate—but it's cool that those who only have a Switch can play it.

227: Switch Lites are more like a successor to the 3DS line. I think they have slightly better hardware than a normal Switch? They can't connect to the TV or a dock, though, so it's all about the handheld play. That strikes me as being needlessly limiting, but I've never actually used one myself.

CMOT70: Just be aware the Switch is coming to the end of it's life. Nintendo are designing a totally new machine for the coming of the new console generation, rumoured to be based upon the same CPU's from the new Surface Pro. So it is very unlikely to have backwards compatibility. And the gulf in power means that getting ports will slow right down.

CMOT70: nVidia recently "unliked" their "like" on the Nintendo Facebook page. So there's all the proof you need.

CMOT70: Just be aware the Switch is coming to the end of it's life. Nintendo are designing a totally new machine for the coming of the new console generation, rumoured to be based upon the same CPU's from the new Surface Pro. So it is very unlikely to have backwards compatibility. And the gulf in power means that getting ports will slow right down.

CMOT70: nVidia recently "unliked" their "like" on the Nintendo Facebook page. So there's all the proof you need.

SirPrimalform: lolwutSirPrimalform: Ah, there's the punchline.

Linko64: So glad we have breaking news that Nintendo's Switch system is already coming to and end due to Facebook likes. RIP Metroid Prime 4

tburger: I'm going to buy one - just couple months ago I was thinking about buying myself 3DS but after reviewing game's catalog it seems that all these games I'm interested in are also on VITA (I own one) and switch gets games you can't find on any other portable system (coz there is none other then Switch:-(