The hardware lives up to its name in how easily and smoothly it moves between those two worlds, in how dead simple it all is to make something pretty magical happen.”Īlthough these quotes represent praise for the console, there were a lot of unanswered questions when the Nintendo Switch launched.
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It’s launching with a piece of software that, more than anything in the Wii U’s first year, demonstrates its inherent capability of delivering what Nintendo says is one of the Switch’s primary missions: a big-budget, AAA game that exists across a handheld device and a television-connected portable. It takes the basic concept of the Wii U, of a tablet-based console, and fulfills the promise of it in a way Nintendo simply wasn’t capable of realizing in 2012.
Going from playing on the tablet to the TV is completely effortless, and there’s no sense of compromise whichever way you choose to play. The Verge’s Ross Miller in the original 2017 launch review: “ The most shocking thing about the Switch might be how many obvious pitfalls Nintendo has managed to elegantly avoid.Other major gaming publications also say the Switch is a terrific console.