We are all familiar with how games development started. Nintendo is one of the key companies, that has taken the biggest part in gameplay evolution. With their last year innovation, the Nintendo Switch, they came back strong in business, making a remark on how 128 years after the creation of the company, they still put innovative thinking into the development of their new products.
The Nintendo Switch is a powerful and full of possibilities console, that you can use on your TV or switch to portable type of use. With no additional effort, you recreate the whole design and purpose of the console, and I find it really cool! If you want to play on a higher graphics level you just dock your Nintendo Switch to enjoy HD gaming on your TV, or undock to seamlessly transition into handheld mode. It has a fair battery life and capable hardware, that will hardly disappoint you.
Design
The design is far from other consoles. It may not look like a Star Wars sample, but it is more than efficient in my opinion. The Switch’s dock and the Joy-Con Grip is what makes the whole design stand out in the crowd. The dock is just a combination HDMI and USB passthrough/charging station and definitely works as it was advertised – within a couple of seconds of putting the portable tablet onto the dock, the picture transfers directly to your connected TV. Before putting the tablet on the dock, you have to remove the Joy-Con pieces from the sides of the tablet, because you’ll be using them as the main control system. If you want to go into portable mode, you just pull out the tablet from the dock and attach the Joy-Con on the sides, which is as easy and innovative as it sounds.
Looks are not what the company’s tried to pursue, but ergonomic is a key feature of this Nintendo Switch. You can easily carry the tablet into a big pocket or your backpack, while the control system feels great while playing and you won’t happen to experience any discomfort.
Buttons are small, clicky and easy to hit, but the lack of a traditional D-pad or full-sized analog triggers will put it at a disadvantage for certain types of games. There are only a few bad thing about the controller. One is that the analog sticks give the feel of limited range of motion, compared to other rival control systems, but you’ll quickly get used to it. The other bad thing is that you can’t charge the system until the Joy-Con is removed from the sides.
Display and hardware
The Switch’s 6.2-inch, multi-touch, 720p LCD screen is a beauty of its own. Color production is vibrant, and it’s bright enough to be played in indirect sunlight. Its huge viewing angles could be counted as a plus, with a sweet spot large enough to make keeping an ideal picture easy.
And even if you stray out of it, the picture remains visible in a roughly 120-degree arc – which is necessary when you’re playing multiplayer games in tablet mode. Its touch functionality is uncommon for Nintendo, making it feel in line with the kinds of touch interfaces we’ve all grown accustomed to interacting with on iPads and Android tablets. There are areas where I could tell Nintendo had to make compromises to hit that $299.99 price tag, but the screen wasn’t one of them for sure!
The hardware of the console is another key thing about this, as well as any other console. For the price I can say that it’s really good and capable, packing 32GB of internal storage memory, so you can easily download and save up games that you’d like to play later. If you don’t find these 32GBs enough, you can add a microSDHC or microSDXC card to expand the internal memory (up to 2TB).
The processor that helps with the delivery of gaming experience is NVIDIA Custom Tegra, which is an NVIDIA GPU based on the same architecture as the world’s top-performing GeForce gaming graphics cards.Battery life can last for more than six hours, but will vary depending on the software and usage conditions. If you play the game that comes with the purchase of this console, the Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild, it will last not more than 3 hours. The full charge of the battery takes the same amount of time.
