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the switch is Nintendo's new home console successor to the Wii U but it's also a powerful and interesting portable handheld device or you can put it down on a table if you'd prefer it's actually really cool with that said evaluating it wasn't an easy task for me sometimes with reviews of things that I really like I'm hard on them out of love and with the switch you'll see some of that because I do love it but you'll also see some criticism that comes from a different place all together my time with the switch has been a roller coaster of emotions and persons with these conditions probably shouldn't ride sigh by powers line-up of gaming desktops feature Intel seventh generation core i7 processors check them out on Amazon at the link below the joint con controllers are so important to the unique experience of gaming on a switch that they'd literally form the logo for it they both featured normal things batteries that charge when they're docked on to the console itself all of the thumb sticks and buttons that you'd expect other than an analog trigger then we get into the more unique stuff they also feature quick releases on the back and pairing buttons between some shoulder buttons then the right joy con controller has an NFC reader in its thumb stick for amiibo pairing and an IR camera for games like eating contest where you hold it in front of your mouth and make eating motions quickly HD Rumble is a cool concept and it's definitely better than previous versions of Rumble but I don't think it's quite as awesome as they actually make it out to be when playing something like ball count in one two switch it just gets frustrating it's not real enough to be genuinely immersive and it ends up being a tiresome gimmick usability wise I'd say it ranges from an acceptable to a bad experience when they're mounted on the side of the switch in handheld mode it's on the acceptable end but not great the joysticks being off axis which I generally prefer having grown up on the Xbox side of things sucks in handheld mode because the right side joystick being lower on the right joique on your hand has to be positioned in a really weird way in order to support the weight of the console and I'm not the only one who felt this way yeah I mean it's a hell of a lot better than playing on a tablet or a phone that's for sure but I think for me the one issue is like with my right hand if I have to switch up and down switch I have to shift my hand a little bit it feels kind of weird mainly the right side of things just because the joystick feels like it should be there but it's there and it's kind of weird a grip I think when they're detached they're fine but this is pretty weird sorry the joy Khan they kind of like crippled the functionality because they wanted to have each thing be its own controller it's just it's so twiddle e and small I can't even deal I think the joysticks there but we just not balance and it's kind of hard to hold in one side but I have no reference so they still call the Wii U tablet controller had both the joysticks at the top this made sense I understand why they did it this way on the switch but I don't think it's justified and I'll get to that in a moment in tabletop mode when you have the joy Kong controllers off the switch and are playing by yourself it's acceptable to players in that same scenario is pretty bad however just due to how cramped your hands are when you only get to use one of these pretty tiny controllers this is also why they have the thumbsticks off axis because it makes it easier to use them when they're by themselves but as this scenario is just bad in general it wasn't worth sacrificing the ergonomics of using it as a handheld then there's the grip it sucks in my opinion especially considering Nintendo's vast controller design experience from the giant gap in the middle to the lack of an actual d-pad to the lousy mobile device grade joysticks to the vertical alignment of all the controls when you're trying to use it at once everything about it contributes to the poor ergonomic experience which luckily for Nintendo will likely Drive a lot of zelda breath of the wild players to go out and buy the switch pro controller which and again I'm not the only one who feels this way actually feels pretty great and can charge over USB type-c which is a really nice bonus it's an awesome controller now this I like it should come with this but one thing I can see people missing is the linear control triggers here but other than that pen the ergonomics feel good the plastics are just really solid I like this thing I think the pro controller feels like a normal controller if I had a Nintendo switch this would probably be what I use most of the time the joy con grip just felt kind of awkward and that's just taffy it's got a good feel to it everything's on the right spot but all the buttons are easy to reach yeah pretty nope I said I can get to each buttons and this thing very easily like you can do whatever like it's all in here this is a lot more normal thanks gendo for giving us options okay let's talk gaming experience now handheld mode first you get about two and a half hours of play in something like breath of the wild without any charging but Nintendo's decision to go with USB type-c instead of their own proprietary power connector makes it really easy to charge up on the go I love this decision Thank You Nintendo it wakes up from sleep super fast getting you into the game almost instantly and it doesn't weigh that much at 0.88 pounds does it replace something like a 3ds not for everyone but for battery bank warriors like me maybe yeah next up is tabletop mode so about the kind of weaksauce feeling kickstand prop it on the airplane tray or table in the lunchroom and boom you're gaming it's really that easy and it's really cool and makes the consoles that much more versatile Nintendo seems to have overlooked to the importance of be able to run off of wall power in this mode however maybe there's a 3d printing solution to this problem but most other aspects of it are well thought out if you apply too much pressure to the stand it just pops out rather than breaking and you can put it back on which is nice but before we do that now is a great time to check out the more standard non proprietary IO who are you and what have you done with Nintendo this is so weird but awesome there's an SD card slot under the kickstand and this is a huge step forward in mobility allowing you to pack games onto it to avoid carrying around game carts when the on-board storage overflows now and I understand if you've forgotten by this point as we've only talked about the mobile experience but the switch is a living room console so if you want to use it as one you throw it onto a dock that charges and powers the switch gives you HDMI output to your TV or something like a monitor it provides three USB connections for accessories like Ethernet adapters and charging for the pro controller that I consider basically a necessary add-on it's pretty much a glorified USB hub you will still be using the power button volume buttons game card slot and headphone jack from the top of the switch console itself and I'll save you the trouble of trying it none of the off-brand USB C hubs that I tried worked and I tried a lot of them TV mode was a mixed bag for me 4k TVs are becoming quite popular and outputting 720p on a 4k display in 2017 feels like a pretty heavy compromise and this comes from someone who fully understands that the Nintendo gaming experience is about gameplay not graphics and there are style makes up for it a lot I just can't help but notice that the performance hasn't really come very far since the Wii U and I also understand how it happened mobile performance for them is fantastic just having a high quality upscaler in the dock would have been deeply appreciated and while we're at it a working Virtual Console and Bluetooth headset connectivity would have appeased retro nerds like me and wireless headphone enthusiasts like Apple I guess in conclusion the switch is a very interesting idea like the Nvidia shield tablet but with the expectation that I'll get a killer game library with it this is a potentially great direction for Nintendo to go in but I feel like some decisions along the way with the joy Kahn controllers and the dock should have been switched up a little I feel like they couldn't decide if they wanted to replace the 3d S or not and consequently ended up uncomfortably somewhere in between then on the subject of the game library there's the issue of one two switch it's like Wii Sports in the sense that it's good wholesome family fun with minigames that gets everyone into the swing of using the new controller style except unlike Wii Sports it doesn't come with the console it's a full-priced half-assed game you'll have fun with some of the games like sword fight quick-draw samurai training and milk but many of its games feel like near clones of each other and I believe the right move was to put it in the box with the console breath of the wild on the other hand if you have a Wii U and you don't plan on getting a switch by it if you're getting a switch by it if you have neither of those options find a friend that has one of those options and go to their house a lot it will be worth it but back on topic is the switch worth it I'm not really comfortable giving an unconditional recommendation giving the current state of its games library but man it's a really unique piece of hardware that's what Nintendo does best and as a die-hard Nintendo fanboy I'm going to go for it and I'm really excited thanks for watching guys is this video sucked you know what to do who's awesome get subscribed hit the like button check out the links down below where you can see where to buy some of the stuff including the pretty much required pro controller and breath of the wild because you're buying a switch you should probably get both of those also you can see where to buy a shirt which is hopefully being like video editors on top of the shirt that I'm currently wearing I actually took my work shirt home and this was like a Nintendo inspired shirt I thought it would find but it's not fine for this part of video I'm rambling for way too long