As a casual gamer myself, I have a few opinions on Nintendo’s latest release, the switch, and it seems a lot of buyers of the switch also share these opinions. In this article I will argue points for and against and overall decide ‘is it worth it?’
Nintendo busted into the home gaming and mobile gaming scene on the 3rd of March 2017 with their newest console/hand held device. The platform, at first, amazed gamers and reviewers alike with their new concept of being able to play games on a console and a hand held device seamlessly which came in the shape of the Nintendo switch. This was the first anyone had seen that allowed this with gaming. The concept of the switch was great, you can game comfortably in the sanctuary of your own home and continue playing on the bus to your way to work, which was great for casual gamers looking to up their game or simply game on the go. But we need to ask ourselves, is it worth it? The Nintendo switch seems to be a disappointment across the Nintendo fan base as they believe this is “just another Wii U”, and to some extent I can agree with this statement. The Wii u received some backlash on its release but quickly grew on the community with its unique design and play style, with the game pad with built in screen used for gaming on the TV, which can also be used for remote gaming. Very similar to the switch. Although the switch does have the spec advantage over the Wii U with its heavily modified Nvidia Tegra X1 processor, quad-core, 64-bit CPU and an Nvidia Maxwell 256-core GPU which is a lot higher than the specs in a Wii U it still seems that the system is very similar to its predecessor. In my opinion the switch seems to be Nintendo’s response to the backlash that the Wii U received when it was first released back in late 2012. Although the prices for these systems upon release are quite interesting, when the Wii u was first released it was £299 to buy the system, although upon the switches release it was £285, now this seems quite strange to me as with all this added power and tech behind it, why isn’t it more? Which leads me to believe they have skipped corners on the production process which a lot of fans seem to believe as a majority of buyers believe that the switch is “made from a cheap and nasty material and assembled poorly.” This seems to be leading to easy breakages, poor resiliency, and poor connections with the game pads due to faulty slides. It seems a lot of people are disappointed in Nintendo for this and I can see why. So that’s the predecessor to the switch covered, but what about the other consoles on the market? Let’s see how the switch compares to Microsoft Xbox one and Sony’s PS4. The clock speed of the switch compared to these consoles is at least 580MHz short which means the switch will be overall the slowest in this class, let’s try memory the switch has 4gb of standard storage whereas the Xbox one and PS4 both have 8gb. Okay I’ll give the switch some credit, it takes up a lot less space than the other consoles but loses out on a whole lot of power, and in my eyes that isn’t a very fair trade. {referenced from http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinions/nintendo-switch-vs-ps4-and-xbox-one} So it all comes down to the big question, is it worth it? Well, in my personal opinion based on what I have just discussed. No. It is inferior to the current consoles on the market and only has the added perk of mobile play, but there is better hand held consoles out there and it doesn’t seem worth getting a full console just for one aspect of it when you could just cover it with a better one. Plus the games offered on the other platform are a lot better than on the switch as there only really seems to be Zelda and after that nothing, it’ll just sit in a draw collecting dust. So after all of these facts no personally I do not believe the switch is worth the £285 price tag. New recruit, Slinky
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