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hey guys this is Austin the switch is nearly two years old at this point and while has absolutely smashed sales records and give a Nintendo a very important win after the disaster that was the Wii U it's not going on sale for the holidays which of course begs the question is now the time to buy you can't talk about the switch without being impressed with the flexibility of the hardware drop it in the dock and you have a proper dedicated console it's kind of even better as a portable especially when you compare this to the 3ds it is a way better experience detach the joy cons and you can see one of the many many ways of playing the switch so now that you have a stand that you can play it in tabletop mode but you can also sync other controllers including the pro controller or even if you're docked you can use a USB controller there's a lot of different options of playing the switch this is clearly what Nintendo wanted the Wii U to be a tablet sized console that's actually portable the Wii U is a good comparison here a lot of titles from it have been ported over to the switch including Mario Cart splatoon toad and of course the outcoming Super Smash Brothers ultimate there's a great selection of indie games as well so just over cooked to as well as dead cells and this is a little bit of a trend for the console lots of games have found their home on the switch especially the ones that aren't super graphically intensive that run really really nicely here this is also the spiritual successor to the 3ds which means that we're finally getting games such as Pokemon moving over to a full proper Nintendo console for a portable it's also got some serious power take one look at the game such as Wolfenstein 2 and it is hard not to be impressed measure its way lower resolution than the ps4 Xbox one but it does look reasonably close and it is incredibly impressive that this is running on a handheld console four-night is a great example this is a game that runs on basically every device out there but this is the best mobile version on the switch mostly thanks to the physical controls the thing is though the switch really doesn't make sense if it's your only dedicated console most big triple-a games take months to make it to the switch and that's what they make it at all and on top of that they generally don't perform as well as other consoles and they cost full price this is totally fine if you want to play the excellent Nintendo exclusives but you want to play other games such as call of duty Assassin's Creed 2 Gran Turismo this is not the console for you the thing is both the base ps4 and Xbox one are cheaper than the switch and with those consoles you are getting a better dedicated gaming experience if you don't care about the portable stuff they make a lot of sense you also don't have any kind of backwards compatibility or virtual console here this is bizarre considering that it was who kind of pioneered the whole idea of doing a Virtual Console both the Wii and the way you could play a lot of older games via the Virtual Console and on top of that they could also you know work with a disc that you just pop in from your last generation system instead on the switch I'm buying Mario Kart for the third time on the second different platform in the last couple years is that just me I guess an appendage just has to keep selling those mini consoles right sure you've got access to some NES games if you pay for Nintendo's online service but well let's get into that both PSN and Xbox Live include current generation games for free every month as opposed to a couple of old NES titles and on top of that you actually don't even need to necessarily pay for the switch online service to play online they yes if you want to play smash for example online you have to pay but if you want to play something like fortnight you actually don't have to pay anything because that makes sense there's also no proper party system you can't do voice chat on the console itself well it does support cloud saves it doesn't work for all games the entire online system just does feel a little bit half-baked I will give them credit at $20 a year at least the Nintendo switch online service is less expensive than PSN or Xbox Live but well that makes sense because it's not as good probably the biggest reason to hold off on buying a Nintendo switch right now are the rumors that there's an upcoming switch pro 2 out next year supposedly the switch will have an upgraded screen as well as potentially a little bit more power now that's all fine and good if you take one look at the 3ds you'll know that there is very little chance that the switch is going anywhere anytime soon even though there are upgrade versions of the 3ds available pretty much all games do support the older version I expect that to be the exact same case for the switch I really do enjoy the switch it feels like a glint of the future or where consoles are headed over the next few years now of course with an upgraded version on the horizon it might not be a crazy idea to hold off and wait but you could also just not do that by a switch right now and come play pokemon and smash but the rest of us your call you