Nintendo Switch Review

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Will Switch be the great console comeback that Nintendo so desperately crave? That is the question that will persist as the intriguing home-and handheld hybrid console arrives on the market on Friday. Following the commercial disappointment that was the Wii U, Nintendo scoured its hardware legacy to create what is, essentially, a greatest hits console. The simplicity and playfulness of the NES,…

First impressions mean a lot. Even if you initially hate someone but over time come to love them (*cough* Mum and Dad), you will no doubt always be revelling/telling your kids the story of how you thought they were an asshole until you got to know the real them. Nintendos latest console, the Switch, leaves a mightily…

I’ve always wanted a videogame console that lets me play beautiful games on a big-screen TV, then take those same games on the go. Nintendo Co’s NTDOY 0.43% latest console, the Switch, is in many ways the realization of that dream. The hardware is ingenious. This isn’t a VCR-size box like Sony Corp’s PlayStation or Microsoft Corp’s Xbox. The heart of the $300 Switch is a 6.2-inch touch-screen tablet…

Nintendo remains a puzzling phenomenon for a lot of modern gamers. The company never makes powerful consoles, or cool consoles; it never pushes the processing envelope, and it always seems a little eccentric when it comes to online infrastructure. Unlike Sony and Microsoft, it isnt trying to make gaming PCs designed to resemble dedicated games machines it just makes games machines.The Switch is…

The Nintendo Switch is a console that does a lot of things all at once. Like the motion controls of the Wii, or the glasses-free 3D of the Nintendo 3DS, or the experimental second screen of the Wii U, the Switch’s innovative hybrid design has helped Nintendo to continue to blaze its own trail and do something different.In the three years since its launch, the Nintendo Switch has become a true…