Nintendo Switch

Advantages: - Portable-stationary console format. It is convenient to play both on the console itself on the road or on vacation, and through the TV from the sofa. - Fully functional package. Allows you to fully play games in all versions (via TV, together, etc.). You don't need to buy anything. - Performance enough for heavy games like Skyrim or Legend of Zelda. - A large number of games for a children's audience, including those focused on playing together.

Disadvantages: Not so much disadvantages as platform features: - unreasonably high prices for games (conventionally 4 times more expensive than a PC, 2 times more expensive than other consoles) - unreasonably expensive accessories. The same pro-controller costs more than XBOX \ dualshock, but it is made much worse. - a small number of games of the AAA class and complex implementation, games are mostly "like for old consoles", indie with flat pike graphics. However, this is gradually changing. - when buying games on cartridges, DLCs for them are sold only in the e-store. Those. When you sell a cartridge, DLCs remain with you as a dead weight, you cannot sell them. - lack of Bluetooth for connecting headphones

Comment: It is rather difficult to comment because essentially a unique niche. There are no alternatives. This is a really well-implemented concept of a portable-fixed set-top box. It is convenient and fun to play in all variants. There were no problems, inconveniences or failures. The only thing that can be a stop factor when buying is the lack of the games you need on the platform. Otherwise, it is a "must-have".

Advantages: - The most interesting console on the market right now. - Games from Nintendo itself - Breath of The Wild, Odyssey, Mario Kart, Splatoon, etc. - this is only in the first few months of the console's existence. Judging by the sales rate, the future is more than good. - Games from third-party developers - for example, full-fledged Skyrim and Doom with a remaster of Dark Souls in your pocket. Hell, cross-platform minecraft and rocket league - playing at the university on breaks, kaef. Well, there is a high probability that Read Dead Redemtion will be released with GTA V and HD remasters of MGS 2 and 3. Well, how not to buy? - Hybrid - have a few free minutes at home? You can play. Are you waiting in line? You can play. Sitting in transport, damn it, what time is it? You can play. With all this, these same games can be easily transferred to a TV set and played like a normal person. - Ability to easily buy games in other regions where prices are more delicious. - Human USB Type-C with power bank charging capability.- Local multiplayer - up to 8 consoles are going to LAN. Lamp. - Vaunted HD vibration. Not that something unreal is straight forward, but where developers really use the capabilities of the joycon (Odyssey), the immersion increases by 256%. - An obvious and advertised feature - joycons can be used as small separate gamepads without arrows and a second stick, which means that many games can be played on the same console by two people right out of the box. More comfortable than it looks. - An unobvious and unadvertised feature - joycons can be played as one gamepad, divided into two halves. It's incredibly comfortable when lounging in an armchair or sofa. - The speakers are good. The screen, despite not having the highest pixel density, also looks nice.

Disadvantages: - The case on the back is very easy to scratch and blur, although the material is matte. - The latches with straps for the joycons that come with the kit are so poorly made that you don't want to use them after the first time, but the set-up is waiting here too - it's difficult to remove them, even if you put them on correctly. If you put them on the other way around, they will remain on the joycon forever. - The stand is bad - it jumps out of the mount very easily (I understand that this is a feature, but still), in the desktop mode the console is not very stable, the angle is too small and not adjustable. Well, this is not to mention the fact that you cannot charge the console to desktop mode - the port is on the bottom. - Some games are clearly overpriced. Breath of the Wild costs absolutely horse (4500) money with us, while the rest of the games of the same price category ($ 60) are sold for 3600, which at least looks like 60 bucks. To be fair, digital-only multi-platform releases sometimes stand as incentives. - There is a browser and it works incredibly fast, but you can't use it yet (?). There are no other applications yet. - The electronic store is not very convenient. - 32 GB of memory on board. Despite the fact that even games on cartridges may not be played without downloading several gigabytes of games. - Lack of backward compatibility. And the cartridges are bitter.

Comment: As the only gaming platform for a "gamer", probably not the best candidate yet. But for people who already own a mainstream gaming platform like a good PC or another modern console, Switch is the perfect choice. As the only adult gaming platform that doesn't have time for mainstream platforms, Switch is also the perfect choice.

Advantages: - Literally no alternative device for today. Well, there are no other modern handheld game consoles. PSP Line -> PS Vita is Dead. Mobile gaming is the realm of dullness and microtransactions. - A set of pretty good ported games that are very cool to play in a mobile version: Doom, Diablo, Skyrim, Wolfenstein, ... - Games from Nintendo itself are something. I honestly never understood why Nintendo is a fan, from the side of the game they look somehow silly and childish and I bought Switch for the games from the previous paragraph, but in the end ... I play almost exclusively in Zelda and Mario Odyssey, only occasionally launching the rest ... Under a simple and unprepossessing wrapper, it turned out to be a really addictive gameplay! - The idea with the docking station is a bomb, you play in the subway, you come home, throw it into the dock and continue from the same place. - Well, my respect for the standard Type-C connector and standard micro-SD memory cards! - Really high-quality assembly and a convenient form factor, everything is very well thought out and ergonomic. The same PSP in my metro all the time tried to slip out of my hands, and the Switch lies perfectly, although almost twice as large.

Disadvantages: - Iron is rather weak and is on the level of PS3 / Xbox360, well, maybe a little better. For many cross-platform games, the graphics settings are severely slaughtered - the prices for the games are really overpriced. The same Doom for Switch costs one and a half times more than on PS4, although graphically it is much worse. - Not that there are a lot of suitable games - Nintendo exclusives, ports from other platforms, a few cross-platform things, but I would not say that there are many, many of them, mostly the store is packed with turkey meat. Someone likes this, but somehow I'm not particularly. - Screen. Well, not that he's bad.But the frames are large by smartphone standards, and after the OLED matrix of my Samsung, the black color does not look very black, but nothing criminal, just not the top one. - No bluetooth headphone support. Hello to the long process of untangling the wires before playing. They say there are some devices from Aliexpress that connect to the type-C port and solve this problem, but I have not tried it yet, I cannot say. - Only 32 GB of internal memory, which, in principle, is solved by installing micro-SD for 64-128 GB, you don't need more anyway, because the game's store is significantly more expensive, it's easier to buy on cartridges. Although they are inconvenient to change.

Comment: Despite the fact that the device has quite a few shortcomings, I shamelessly give it the highest mark. This is because Nintendo has reinvented the seemingly dead portable gaming experience. As I already wrote, Sony has killed the PSP / PS Vita line, and games on smartphones are either casinos or stores selling crystals. It is logical to look in the direction of PS4 / XBox One, but the "couch" gaming format is not suitable for everyone. I still have an old XBox 360 with a bunch of unplayed games and all because there is simply no time to play on the couch at home (at least for a long time), and if there is 20 minutes, then it will load until you remember. So the coveted PS4 for me has remained forever in the wishlist. But Switch really helps out: on the subway, on trips, in cafes, in all sorts of queues, and so on, you can always not yawn or dumb at your smartphone, but it is quite pleasant to spend this time. And if there is a little "extra" time at home, you can safely throw the console into the dock and continue the game you played half an hour ago on the way home from work. The main thing to understand is that you don't have to compare the Switch with the PS4 / XBox One. It has a completely different purpose. This is a prefix that you always want to take with you and only occasionally throw it into the dock at home. And if you play mostly in front of the TV, it's better to take the Playstation. PS Well, I forgot to say that it is very suitable for playing with children, on the same PS it is tight with children's games, but here - abundance.

Advantages: 1. The console is pleasant to hold in hands, index fingers rest comfortably on the triggers. It is made soundly, the materials are pleasant, the little fingers do not hang in the air as with the PSVita, the hands go numb less during prolonged play, but still go numb, alas. 2. The display is good, resolutions, IMHO, behind the eyes, there are no questions about colors and temperatures. The text in the games is quite readable, unlike the same Vita, to which many games were ported from PC and older consoles, with a touch of a healthy screen, but the font did not change in any way, sometimes the eyes flowed out from reading the macro text in the same Resident 2 or Borderlands 2 , eg. Size 3. On the one hand, for a portable console, the console is a bit big, for example, there was a break at work, in which case it will not be possible to get the console out of your pocket, play and calmly put it back. You need to go, take it out of the bag, which is worth hell knows where, then put it away there. On the other hand, we have normal pressing sticks with relatively normal travel and a screen that is quite large enough for a comfortable game even without a TV mode. 4. TV mode. What can I say, H showed what to strive for ideally. The console is one, save alone, if you want, play outside the house or in other rooms, for example, or you can collapse in front of the TV with a gamepad, which is a completely different feeling. Switching is instant without any priblud and synchronization. 5. ARM architecture. The console is always ready to play. Have two minutes free? There is no need to wait until the Windows boots up, the game starts, just woke up the console and in a second you are exactly at the point where you stopped. 6. Battery. Here, too, everything is ambiguous. On the one hand, when playing Zelda or Odyssey, the console holds somewhere for 3 miserable hours, but usually during these miserable three hours I managed to play enough so that a break was clearly required.Taking the console with you on trips is another story. 7. Memory. Initially, I immediately took a 128 GB card, which I later regretted a bit. I didn't take a lot of games, mainly on cartridges, a 64 GB card would be enough.

Disadvantages: 1. The coating of the joikons wears off rather quickly, after a week of toys (gray color) in the places where the fingers are located, the plastic has become glossy, but otherwise it remains matte. 2. After the "riots" of Roskomnadzor with the blocking of everything and everyone, there may be problems with the game online. For example, I had problems with Mario Kart, that in Splatun, then the windows fell out "there is no answer from at least one console" or "there is no connection with other consoles", then I managed to connect, but not a single player was recruited. .. After a couple of months, the problem suddenly disappeared by itself. For different providers, judging by the reviews on w3bsit3-dns.com, different games may not work, for example, Splatun does not see servers, Mario Kart without problems, or vice versa. 3. Prices. Like many, I chose the strategy of buying games on cartridges, which turned out to be very difficult, because there are hits and new things, but something less popular and old, even more so indie, there was hell there. I even searched for Captain Toda for a long time, barely found a used one. You can buy a figure, of course, at a discount, all the more so, more or less often they have recently been, at which the price tags are roughly compared to a PC (store with the letter S) without discounts. It happens, of course, that the price tags differ as much as 10 times, here the logic is not clear at all, this is past. But as a fact, for example, taking Little Nightmares, we get a "sensitive" blurry picture, even in portable mode, less smooth, which can be played, of course (the game was not without fun on a switch), but on a PC it just looks better , but you can't put a PC in a backpack, even in the case of a laptop, the switch is much more convenient. But this is so, the lyrics are simple, I would like a cheaper game. 4. About the price tags for original gamepads and accessories, I will simply keep silent.

Comment: I took it on New Year's holidays 2019 with an excellent discount on the console itself and games. Two things prompted me to buy: the first is that most bloggers on youtube just "licked" this console and shone it (yes, Nintendo's advertising move was a success), that it naturally arouses curiosity to try to "return to childhood" yourself. And secondly, I played Zelda on an emulator on a PC and tightened specifically. I must say that the console initially did not make the best impression. Wild price tags for games and accessories, everywhere they discuss soapy images in TV mode, which is why the first time did not even get the dock out of the box, many sensational ports of games, as it were, did not want to take it, because not a fan of this or even played on a PC but not went at all. As a result, there was Zelda, Odyssey, Toad and that's it ... You can't do anything except how to play, and in January a letter came from Nin about the price increase for games in the Russian Federation. Well, we arrived ... Then, somehow, different sales began abruptly, even with discounts on all games from Ning herself! Various games are slowly appearing, including exclusives, which I am not averse to playing. Their whisper about the total mass of course, but I rarely get caught up in anything. Recently, on a PC, what you do not take from the popular, well, generally zero emotions or enrages or continuous screensavers, training and tryndezh. For the sake of experiment I decided to get the dock out of the box, just try it and ... on TV the same Zelda looks completely different, I left it, I play now. Then I bought a gamepad, it's still more convenient with it, whatever one may say. And suddenly I slowly began to notice that I was playing not on a PC, not on Vitya, but mainly on a switch, and most importantly, playing on a switch, as you relax more and enjoy the gameplay, nothing infuriates or annoys, after the game there is no sediment that you just "wasted" time. And the fact that the switch is always ready to work literally in a second, even though insomnia hits you at night, you take the console and immediately play, any two minutes you have a free switch in your hands, it was the same with the bandwidth at one time.

Advantages: - The best picture of all Nintendo consoles - The ability to play on the go \ in TV mode from the docking station \ on the table - Multiplayer out of the box for two people - Fast and responsive operating system (better than 3ds and wii u on the head) - Support for MicroSD cards - Support for 5GHz WiFi networks - Silent operation portable / in a docking station - 3 options for controllers in games: Joykons in each hand \ Joycon grip \ Pro controller - The presence of motion sensors and gyroscopes adds convenience (modified principles of Wii and Wii u) - Already available games -Hits and a lot of games on the way (and E3 is just around the corner) - 3.5-4 hours of playing heavy resource-intensive games - Charging on the go from powerbanks - High quality plastic and assembly as a whole - Joycon's working time - 20+ hours and charge function from the console itself on the go. They have never been discharged in a month of use - Very fast function of entering / exiting standby mode and continuing the game - Multitasking (the game is running and you can simultaneously go to the eShop or watch the news) - On the plus side, I can add that being able to play on a modern PC in many games, I will prefer buying games on a switch for the sake of portability and ease of management. You just can't imagine how comfortable it is to lie back on the couch with your arms outstretched and calmly play on the TV with the help of Joikons in each of your hands. Forget about fatigue and tension in your hands from constantly holding the joystick like some kind of Tyrrannosaurus in front of you. In the case of lying on the bed, put the console on yourself and also continue the game with your hands under the covers.

Disadvantages: - Lack of fast charging function (like QuickCharge 2.0 and 3.0) - Inflated prices in the European (Russian) eShop'e due to the included sales tax for digital purchases Regarding prices, everything is as usual. Previous consoles from Nintendo kept about the same pricing policy, so no one discovered America (you need to look in advance what you buy and at least know what prices for games, and not what you bought and now you are complaining - IT'S EXPENSIVE). Likewise with accessories - the pricing policy was always the same. For 1 month, I don’t think that this is not enough in terms of games (of course, there are many more of them in eShope, but I selected these for myself). Unless you're going to sit and play 24/7. On the way, again, there are still many announced and not very games (I am inclined to believe Nintendo in this) and the current sales indicate good prospects. - Lack of a protective film on the screen out of the box (it can be solved by buying a set of film + cover. Not a big problem - do you buy film for your phones / tablets? One-time fee + can be ordered from China and is cheaper already)

Comment: With regards to games and their number - at the moment the console is almost a month. Purchased Zelda BotW, Snipperclips, Fast Racing RMX, Master Blaster, Shovel Knight Treasure Trove Zelda - about 110 hours played, 30-40 more hours of games left, possibly more. At the same time, I do not try to find everything I can. If you have completed the story in 5-7 hours and the game is over, these games are simply not for you. A game about exploring the world (it is desirable to set the interface mode to * PRO * and enjoy the exploration). A huge number of little things that will be revealed during the game add life and do not let you get bored. Snipperclips is a game for two (or a company if you have a couple more joycons). It is gorgeous with a girl / friend (you can put on a table while sitting in a bar and sip beer under the perplexed glances of boring people sitting next to you to amuse yourself a little), in addition to 8-9 hours of the main game, there are modes for company and minigames like air hockey. It costs its money and does not let you get bored solving funny puzzles with animated protégés (some grimaces are worth it) Fast Racing RMX - the legacy of Wipeout and FX zero. Crazy speeds, great techno soundtrack and a lot of tracks. It plays equally well in portable mode and on TV. Again there is split-screen multiplayer and plays very well in 2M. Stable 60fps and very good graphics for the lack of analogs for the last 5 years are a plus. Master Blaster - ardent hello / exclusive to all old Dendy players. Again, 6 hours of play is guaranteed at least. Shovel Knight Treasure Trove - in fact 4 games in one. 4 parts (4th on the way) giving about 25+ hours of play, agree not bad.Yes, it is available on other consoles, but it plays great in the portable version. Plus - local multiplayer for 2 is also included in the box.

Advantages: • Extremely original and really convenient concept of the game console. Very practical! I use the console in all modes equally often: in portable mode, in TV mode, and on a stand. You will not find this anywhere else! • High quality assembly materials. Nice to the touch, nice to hold in your hands, nice joysticks and buttons. • Lots of cool exclusive (!) Games. The same Zelda is not at all overrated by critics, the same 1-2 Switch and Tetris bring a lot of pleasure to your entire company, and Splatun is generally a full-fledged online "shooter" (in the Nintendo style). • Holds a charge for quite a long time, 4 hours of playing Zelda from a single charge are guaranteed to you. • A rather large set of accessories right in the box, along with the console itself. • There is no region-lock. That is, you can safely buy games in the store with the South Africa region, where they are much cheaper.

Disadvantages: • The only "full-fledged" drawback is the Nintendo pricing policy. Bought a console - get ready to spend more on games and accessories that will almost cover the cost of the console itself. If you think that you will be happy with Zelda alone, you are wrong :) • Small screen. The displays of some smartphones are comparable to the Switch's display, the frames are large, I really hope that someday there will be a second version of this console with a larger screen (without increasing the size of the console). • I don’t know if this is a "feature" of my particular console or not, but in portable mode the joy-cones sit rather flimsy and uncertain.

Comment: If you are tired of all these Playstations and Xbox's, if you are not a fan of any GTA 5, if 4K graphics in games are not so important to you, and if you want to bring a new kind of entertainment to your "parties" with friends - Nintendo Switch is the best choice for you. It is better to immediately buy a cover and a film on the screen, because carrying the console with you anywhere without these related products is at least risky :)

Advantages: Easy to use, portable, fun to play. A prefix for the whole family, Dad, mom, children are all happy!

Disadvantages: The cost

Comment: Before buying, there was no doubt, they wanted to try Nintendo. Before that, we had various PS and PS4 in our family, but apart from FIFA, we played little. The kids weren't interested in PS games. After buying a Nintendo, for 2 weeks now, neither my wife and I nor the children leave it in the evenings, very funny colorful games, a lot of positive! Games like Mariokart, Splatoon, Arms and their online modes are great. Simple, fun, beautiful. For children, that's it. It is very convenient that you can play both on TV and on the road, and take the game with you on a visit, etc. Unlike the PS4, which is gathering dust in the closet, we use this console. Of course, this is not a replacement for the PS4 aphid XBox, all the same there are games in different qualities and there are not so many games themselves as on other platforms. But Fifa works great, to play Fifa, the purchase of Pro controllers is required! After playing with friends, after 40 minutes, our fingers almost fell off. Let's go right after the normal joysticks. And these are additional expenses and not small ones. In portable mode, the Fifa 18 works well, but it is unlikely that you can play for more than an hour, your hands get tired. What conclusions can be drawn, the console turned out to be 5+, for those who know what they are buying. But the price of 22,000 for one console is only half of the cost, at least, add the cost of joysticks, the cost of 3-5 games, and we are already approaching 40-50 thousand. There are not many games on the secondary market and the prices for them are also not weak.In an online store, prices are often higher than for a cartridge. That's it. Think carefully before buying! Good luck to all!

Advantages: Probably the main plus is the hybridity of the console, the ability to play in stationary and portable modes. No handheld console has ever offered this capability before. High-quality exclusives for which I bought the switch. Nice graphics, but in some games the lack of anti-aliasing is clearly noticeable. The battery, probably more plus than minus, keeps 3 hours in Zelda + flight mode, which is enough to make your eyes tired. Games for several people. You don't need to buy a movie or a camera, as it is on other consoles, just two joycones from the basic configuration are enough. Nice screen. I read a lot of reviews that the screen manufacturing technology is outdated for a long time, but I don't see any obvious problems. Everything is bright, juicy.

Disadvantages: I see the main disadvantages in a small number of exclusive games, a lot of indies that I would not buy, as well as in a high price level, which is sometimes even higher than on ps4. In Eshop it is very bad with discounts, if in the stores of other consoles discounts reach 80%, then I have not seen more than 30% here. Sometimes it is more profitable to buy a cartridge at a discount in a store. No browser, video, audio player. I hope they will appear over time. In the basic configuration, there is no adapter for charging only joycones; it must be purchased separately. Thanks to the well-known online store for the opportunity to buy 2 times cheaper than the original version.

Comment: It should be said that this is my first "portable" console. Having a good pc, ps2, ps3, now ps4, there was no desire to take a similar one before. I was bribed by the opportunity to play in stationary and portable modes. Not worth comparing with ps4, huang, there are still different weight categories. This is a cross between the new generation consoles and the portable consoles that still exist. At the moment I have Zelda, Mario Odissi, Mario + Rabbits, 1-2 switches. I would like to see full-fledged Pokémon, not a fighting game. I don't see any point in taking games that are on other platforms. Except, perhaps, I would have taken PES, but it is not. The weight of the switch is not the smallest, you can't hold it for a long time in the spring, but it's not critical. I carry it in a backpack, there is no problem with that. If the screen was smaller, the picture would look worse. In general, I am satisfied with the switch, but I would like to reduce prices, the appearance of even more interesting games.

Advantages: Packaging, concept, performance. A lot of very interesting games in the future.

Disadvantages: The selection of games is still more than modest, and their cost is beyond all decency. Many people praise the screen, but it seemed faded to me, in addition to this, there are complaints about scratch resistance. In mobile mode, at the level of sensations, the design lacks overall solidity (due to the cavities for cooling inside the case).

Comment: At the start of sales, the only thing worth buying this console is Zelda. This game is definitely worth it, but be prepared for the fact that there is nothing else to play for now. Nearly. For some reason, buying cartridges in a store is a little cheaper than buying games online, the logic of Nintendo in this is incomprehensible to me. In general, I am very pleased with the purchase, it became interesting to play games again, as in childhood.

Advantages: 1 Portability 2 Games and most of them are in Russian 3 Joy-Con is an interesting solution 4 Quite good screen, diagonal 6.2 (1280 × 720) 5 Pro Controller connectivity 6 Very good bundle (even HDMI was installed) 7 Possibility to connect to a TV. 8 32Gb memory 9 USB Type-C 10 You can expand the memory by inserting a MicroSDXC-flash drive

Disadvantages: If viewed as a portable console, then there are no drawbacks. If you buy for the game only on a TV, then this is discarded money, it is better to take a PS4.

Comment: I think of the Nintendo Switch as a portable console with the ability to connect to a TV. I'll tell you what I liked: 1 I liked the presence of the Pro Controller, you can put the Switch on the table and play with a normal joystick. 2 Joy-Con are detachable, you can buy a new set if something breaks. 3 Nintendo Switch has 32Gb of memory. It is better than PSPGo 8Gb and PSvita 1Gb. 4 A good set of delivery, really put a lot of things. 5 Support for MicroSDXC memory cards, (only Sony cards are expensive for PSPGo, PSvita). 6 Modern universal USB Type-C connector. 7 two excellent analog sticks. 8 I played 10 hours in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the game is very interesting and completely in Russian. In general, I really liked the Nintendo Switch, I hope everything will be fine with the games. PS I am not a fan of Nintendo and I have a PS4, I have been PS3, PS2, PS1, PSPGo, PSvita, about Sony I will say one thing the guys got drunk.