Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Nintendo Switch Review In Progress

The Nintendo Switch isn't unlike a NASA spacecraft, in that nearly every part of it has been specially designed to pull double or even triple duty. The system's modular design means that it has to function as a traditional home console, a portable system, and stand-alone tablet with wireless controllers. Getting a piece of hardware to do that much while also making it easy to use and understand would be an engineering miracle, and although Nintendo has come close in some regards, it has fallen well short in others. Overall, the Switch is an attractive and powerful but oversized portable gaming system that struggles to be a convincing or reliable home console.

Keep in mind that this review is still tentative, as we haven't yet had the opportunity to test the Switch's online capabilities, the eShop store, or a wide variety of games that use the individual Joy-Con as stand-alone controllers. Those functions and others (such as SD card compatibility) won't be enabled until the launch-day patch, which we're expecting to see either late Thursday or early Friday. We plan to have this review finalized in the following days.

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