I owned a Switch 1, and it certainly was the Nintendo console I touched up the most. I replaced the back panel once before I got a Lite and then an OLED.

I will say given how much I took that thing on the road and the beatings it took I never found the issues unreasonable and I only ever had to fix cosmetic damage (joycons aside). I've seen Switches get a TON of usage, too.

It's not Nintendo's most rugged console, but it's certainly not a "fragile little thing" as I would define it.

Let me put it this way, I'd much rather fix a broken Steam Deck, but I was way less worried about breaking a Switch.

Maybe if it was 349 or 399... but 499 is wild

Are you fucking kidding? They didn't switch to Hall effect?

It's kind of wild, especially given how much they must have lost in that lawsuit requiring them to repair joy-cons free of charge

Part of the difficulty is that Nintendo have hitsquads that will blow your city if you even look sideways at one of the screw.

Mario. Zelda. Metroid. For a time the occasional Splatoon. Maybe a Wario once in a while too. Some Pikmin. Even the built-in (paid) list of emulator games are attractive.

Also, you severely underestimate the convenience factor for a lot of people. Yeah, I have a Steam Deck, and 95% of the time, it's a completely seamless experience. With consoles, it's 100% of the time. People want a "I turn it on, I start a game", not a "I turn it on, I might be able to start a game, and sometimes it needs a bit of fiddling, not much, but, more than zero. And sure, I could have this or that other thing by going there and running that, you know, sometimes".

It is not illegal to emulate a game that you own.

In a lot of place it is illegal to circumvent technical protection measures, which is technically required for almost anything starting from NES era. Making it impossible to "legally" rip your own games (yes, even in places where there IS a tax to allow private copy of content you bought). So the only way you can do that is by downloading it, where there is no "legal" way to distribute it in the first place, so "legally" you can't download it either.

I'm not defending the practice, I'm saying that if you're going the "legal" defense, you're going to have a bad time if it gets attention. Fortunately, suing every single gamer on earth is not an attractive prospect.

It's a known and proven shit solution. Have any of you ever actually used hall effect sensor joysticks? The centering is worse, the polling rate is far worse, they use a ton more power (already a limited resource in the individual joycons) and most of all they get absolutely screwed by electromagnetic interference... Interference like, say, magnets holding the joycons on.

Ifixit is kind of full of shit here- the joysticks are the "same" only in that it's using the same general design as every other non-hall effect sensor joystick that's ever been used and most of those didn't have problems with drift.

It's not the same part as the original joycons, so the issue could be fixed- from what the switch welcome tour was saying, it seems pretty likely in fact.

If you consider how hostile they are with everything else, I highly doubt it. Nintendo never again

with consoles, it's 100% of the time

Several Switch 1 games are facing issues on Switch 2, including broken textures, crashes and weird behavior. This whole "consoles are 100%!" idea has been dead since the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 generation.

From my friend, the main advantage the switch have is the UI for games is being design for handheld from the get go, so big, readable font and icon is by default already there and is made to fit. PC game tend to made for either a 24inch or so monitor or big tv for couch gaming, games that doesn't have UI accessibility option on a handheld PC is unplayable for a lot of people.

Also that damn controller can be split so coop is so accessible. Not to mention that first party games.

People buying the console for the games that are on that console, not generations before, are 100% fine.

Beside, it's not something you have to fiddle with to get it work. Either a patch come, or you're on your own.

Not surprising. Nintendo is turning into the Apple of the video game world.

not generations before

If by "Generations" you mean the literal previous generation that was advertised as backwards compatible and where many of the games won't receive specific patches precisely because running natively and better was one of the key features of the new console... Sure, I guess.

I have children, like their first party titles, and dislike piracy. I also have a PC handheld that gets more use than the Switch, and I like both.

In those place it's usually sharing which is illegal, downloading is fine as long as you already own the media.

Friends with Switchs to play Smash Bros and Mario Party. Occasional Nintendo game but everything else PC. It's lighter than almost every PC handheld. The Ayaneo Air 1S is lighter but has a 5.5" display

I have a PC handheld but they're all too heavy in my opinion. The holy grail to me is a Steam Deck that's about the same weight as a Switch 2 or lighter. 7" display

I mean yeah, I wouldn't expect otherwise. Nobody hates their fans more than Nintendo does.

I use hall effect on the daily and have had none of the issues you're discussing. I suppose time will tell, but I much prefer hall effect.

Not surprised, given it's Nintendo. My Switch Lite has seen very little use since I got my Steam Deck, tho.