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yeah good why don't we just like scrap this video all together and just like record a bunch of these clicking sounds this is like really really satisfying watches do that no okay um let's do this for the last week I've been playing the new Legend of Zelda game pretty much non-stop it's an expansive and ambitious game one that probably sit on a couch for hours and hours at a time to play but I haven't been playing on the couch because while the new Nintendo switch is pretty interesting as a home console it's also capable of taking that exact same experience on the go for over a decade now Nintendo's been making these kind of weird non-traditional gaming consoles in the case of the weave company found massive success its follow up the Wii U not so much the difference in dose which actually feels like a mash-up of both those consoles it's a tablet like the wii u although way more portable and also has to we remote to sensibly improved versions that container is called the joy con that attached to each side now the biggest selling point of switch at launch is without question the Legend of Zelda breadth of the wire and I can't stress this enough there's something very satisfying about playing a full Zelda experience anywhere I want this is me killing goblins while moving to our next fill location and again and again now I'm killing goblins I'll launch a magic and yep this is me killing goblins and a surprisingly rain-free day just outside the Ferry Building the tablet itself is slightly heavier than a Nintendo 3ds or PlayStation Vita but with a 6.2 inch 720p display it's also easier to hold at a more comfortable distance found myself slouching less for example it's also large enough that if I want I can pop out the kickstand and play leaning back so let's talk about the toy cons combine it they form a console style button layout complete with two joysticks and over a dozen buttons including a dedicated capture button for taking screenshots there's a bundle grip peripheral that you can slide the droid comes into it does make it feel a little bit sturdier but honestly you can play without that much like the Wii remotes before them the joy cons can be held out of vertically like a wand or horizontally like a little Super Nintendo gamepad and it's through these that you really see weird Nintendo come out the launch title one two switch is just full of minigames but you do things like eat sandwiches like literally with your mouth or milk a cow do I really need to give an example that those are little things that happen and I cannot get weirder than that but today isn't about shared social experiences today is all about Zelda and being called a play and explore its crazy open-world environment wherever and whenever I want at least for about two to three hours which is the battery life I consistently been getting so while it is a portable machine we really want to be playing it in small bursts it does have a standard USB C plug for charging go to be honest at this point we have yet to find a battery pack that will charge it fast mode actually drains so I've spent a few hours getting some fresh air and shooting this video and now it's time to return back to my TV leaned back on the couch and continue the game where I left off the switches dock serves to both charge the console and output a video signal over HDMI it's a bit bulkier than it feels like it needs to be and I have to believe in Tenon's going to make more pair down version in the future but I will say that it's impressive how smooth it is when docking the tablet but the dock is really just a place to switch to go charge while the tablet handles all the processing the NVIDIA Tegra chip is nowhere near as powerful as with the Xbox one or PlayStation 4 offer but to be fair the switch isn't trying to compete in graphical prowess and as far as online goes that's still a pretty big mystery with just days ago before launch we know next to nothing about how the switch will handle down in games or playing online with friends but all platforms evolve and with a switch you're not only buying Hardware you're making a bet on the software content I was taking some very weird creative risks here with the hardware and they largely pay off the switch is the best way to play one of the best Zelda games ever but the big question is what comes after that and when the switch has all the potential to be a hit Nintendo it just has supported we get a free portrait