I bought it. The vita is my favorite portable system ever and the only Zelda games I've ever enjoyed were Phantom Hourglass, the OG Zelda game and Ocarina of time. Out of those three the only Zelda games I've beaten was OG Zelda. Every other Zelda I have tried I have hated. The Switch's launch is barren, no other games interest me and the only two decent games I could see on the eshop are Snipper clips (an amazing co op game which will guarantee lead to sex if played with an SO) and Shovel Knight.
So for me going on a whim and buying a Switch and Zelda was a tough task. HOWEVER Zelda BOTW is easily the second best open world experience I have ever played next to Witcher 3. It is worth buying a Nintendo switch for this game alone if you like RPG's and Action Adventure games with puzzle elements. Even if you already had a Wii-U and wanted to support the Switch early but had no reason too it's worth buying a Switch for this game purely because the Switch is the optimal platform to play it on.
Now for the Switch itself? Brilliant. The transition between dock and handheld is seamless, way faster than turning on your PSTV and swapping over game and memory cards xD, and although daunting at first purely due to size the handheld mode is extremely comfortable for long periods of time and the screen is in 720p with every game I've tested on it looking crisp as fuck. It truly feels like a home console on the go and reminds me a little of how good remote play looks and feels. The controller attachment it gives you for when you're docked works nicely and I haven't tried the pro controller but a lot of people are liking it better than PS4 and Xbox One controllers. Even using the joycons on their own or on their side surprisingly works for a dude with big hands like myself.
I really like the UI because it's simple, there's no install times because it's cart based and buying eshop games is as simple as the Vita. You buy your game and it downloads and you play it. It's got a news feed for everything Switch related which is kinda cool but it'd be nice to see some RSS Feed put there in it's place so you could gain the news you wanted. There's definitely no getting lost in the Switch's UI like there could be on the Vita's. Also no bloatware and irremovable apps is nice.
Battery life is good for someone like me. Zelda lasts about 2 and a half to 3 hours depending on brightness and whether or not you're in airplane mode and supposedly the system itself can last 6-7 hours. This might suck if a dev chooses not to optimise their game for handheld mode and we get stuck having big games that last an hour off the dock. This could also be a bad thing for some if you're regularly caught in situations where you play your handheld device for long periods of time but I seriously can't imagine you'd play your handheld more than 3 hours in one sitting without taking a break or charging it. 3 hours for me is fine for a portable system as I usually play in one and a half hour intervals anyway. Then again there are still Vita users and even 3DS users that complain about battery life on those systems so it gets you thinking.
My main gripes with the system comes down to it's lack of versatility in terms of tablet features. I love that it's a hybrid system and allows me to play in so many different ways but I'd love it even more if I could use this as my daily driver for a tablet. If I could take this thing away with me on a bus trip to work, down to the park, to McDonalds, to the beach or wherever for half an hour and hotspot my phone to do basic tablety things it'd be an instant recommendation. The Vita has more tablet-esque features which says a lot and oddly Nintendo has created a tablet which can do home console gaming and portable gaming which has no actual features to resemble it as a tablet. Hopefully by christmas we get simple things like an e-book reader, a web browser, email clients, ebay/amazon apps and netflix because that would easily sell this system to a lot of people.
This thing feels like the Vita's successor. Period. And I hope it holds a tight community much like the vita has. The main issue is that if none of the games speak to you there is no point buying it. I bought it while having the faith that it will become everything I wanted the Vita to be. By supporting this thing early I'm helping it grow. Zelda is awesome, snipper clips is great, Shovel Knight will be my next purchase and binding of isaac afterbirth plus drops this month.
Nintendo has this time shown to widely support indie developers and has the cheapest dev kit on the market. They're taking things a little slower which will hopefully lead to them making smarter moves in helping the switch become successful.
I rarely play my Vita because I've played all I feel there is to be played. I'm basically here because of the community. /r/NintendoSwitch is great but /r/vita is so close and tightly-knit so I hope even if the vita truly dies, ITS NOT DEAD YET, that we can still be close and maybe even play Mario together or something.
Submitted by ShellWithMe | #Specialdealer Special Offer Online Shopping Store 2016
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