I don’t know about you but to be honest I haven’t touched my Switch in like 2 months.
So the Switch is going to be supplanted this year although there is probably going to be a bit of a crossgenerational overlap for a while. There’s still time to make some memories and review stuff remaining in the catalogue.
Either way, Switch exclusive games are basically coming to an end. I’m planning to wrap up that section of my backlog this year except there’s a lot of chunky RPGs to get through. Got a spread of older ports, indies, or exclusives I never got round to.
Do we have fond memories of the Switch? Did we do all of the things in the video?
I used it a lot when commuting and travelling and it was the first system I finished a Final Fantasy game on. Drift is shit but for a while it mounted a pretty compelling complement to Steam. Felt like Nintendo hit at the right time to provide a dedicated game device for portable fans/elder millennials and maintaining the cheaper portable option to compete with smart devices to capture younger players, all whilst also technically being a home console.
Here’s what I’m hoping to get through of remaining stuff.
Nintendo Stuff
Pikmin 4
Xenoblade Chronicles 3
Kirby and The Forgotten Land
The Rest
Kamiwaza: Way of the Thief
Rhapsody: Marl Kingdom Chronicles Trilogy
La Pucelle Ragnarok
Takeshi and Hiroshi
Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo
Final Fantasy VIII (on holiday maybe)
Remaining Releases
Suikoden I & II HD Remaster
Metroid Prime 4 Beyond (I don’t even feel like playing this one tbh. Almost feel obliged. Maybe if there’s a custom control scheme?)
I got that recent Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom game but I haven’t started it yet. I’m tempted to wait for the Switch 2 in case it performs better there, because like the Link’s Awakening remake, I hear it has terribly inconsistent framerates on the Switch 1.
I didn’t get a switch until dragon quest 11 came out and it was by far the best game I played on there, the only dragon quest I actually finished, etc
I haven’t really touched mine since Zelda a couple years ago. in general I have avoided a lot more switch exclusives than not because they didn’t look like I’d stick with them, but I probably played through a solid 10 games on it in the time that I had it and it’s obviously been a massive success for them in every meaningful way
Weirdly i didn’t enjoy the Kirby demo near release but since then everything I see and hear about it makes me want to give it a proper shake. It having secrets similar to older games is part of that. I think it’s next up
Switch has been my primary gaming device since it launched. I mostly play JRPGs, a few racing games (Grid Autosport, Ala Mobile, and New Star GP), the occasional STG, and Voxelgram (a 3D Picross).
I’ve amassed a backlog of JRPGs now that could probably last me the rest of my life. I might get the Switch 2 at some point if it makes my games run better, but I would want to massively scale back my spending habits for new games.
I’ve been playing the Switch almost exclusively for like 7 years now.
I got a Switch 1 partially for Zelda BOTW but didn’t care about that game at all. The rest of the lineup more than made up for this though.
At one point Switch was where the money was and every indie flocked to the console. Recently though the eshop has been flooded with AI slop and new indies seemingly evaporate as soon as they arrive. The gold rush is over. Will Nintendo adress this with the Switch 2? No
I don’t care that much about the Nintendo first party lineup. But my kid knows every Kirby boss now. They got me. I’ll get the switch 2 (eventually)
I hate these tiny joysticks and joycon drift. I was honestly shocked at how uncomfortable a basic Switch is, and wouldn’t have played it that much if it weren’t for the pro controller and split pad pro. The split pad pro is frankly almost too ugly for me, but ergonomics > aesthetics…
Nobody talks about the improved sleep mode compared to 3DS, but it has a huge psychological effect and might be the console’s best feature. No time between starting up and playing might have been key in getting that Nintendo dad demographic locked in. I see 95% less unity logos than before!
For the past year or so, mine has mostly been for some older STGs and then EGGConsle stuff, which I am super cool with. I did definitely get a lot of time in with it since I bought it, so I will probably buy a 2 depending on what the BC situation looks like
Oh yeah, and Xenoblade Chronicles X is in like a month, so there’s that as well. I know it won’t live up to 3 at all (because it was made before 2 even and doesn’t even really have an ending, unless they decided to add that in this one) but it is a great damn game either way, and it’s nice to have it freed from WiiU jail.
And yeah, fuck joycons. I hope they just let us use the pro controller and other peripherals for the new one, but this is Nintendo, so lol.
I play the switch almost exclusively, have made the move to no tv and handhelds only. Golf Story is probably my most played switch game. Really hope the switch 2 has better discoverability in its eshop. I also do not trust the “shovelware” filter because hateful nerds will label every single game that’s not for them as shovelware if it’s not AAA. A no ero game filter would be nice.
The Switch is the device that, once and for all, confirmed that I no longer ever want to play a video game looking at a little screen I am holding up in my hands. Portable gaming is trash.
Good piracy hobby device for a while, though, you gotta hand it to the warez kids still out here doing it every day.
yeah mostly the whole Switch phenomenon and the willingness of people to invest in massive accessory lines and re-buy old stuff for this underpowered little console reminds me of how enthusiastic I was to get emulators running on a Thinkpad or GBA back in the early 2000s… like, I get it, having something be finally portable is cool! but the ergonomic and convenience benefits have mostly swung back the other way for me at this point since I mostly play videogames at home on large screens in comfortable chairs and I’m very invested in in-home streaming and such. like I segmented myself into the part of the market that’s more willing to pay for GPUs for other reasons than plenty of other people my age or younger who are like “a Switch / Steam Deck is just easier” which is fine.
like having to run Whisky or Crossover on a Macbook I use mostly for work is still more convenient to me than a Steam Deck would be on account of the screen being bigger and letting me use any controller I want… I just do not need dedicated gaming devices
If I had to have only one gaming device per use case, and if I identified three broad use cases, it would look as thus:
Playstation 5 next to big TV
Windows PC under the desk
Switch Lite (2?) on the couch table
Anything else is unnecessary imo, because those three device families are where all the new exclusives are found that I care about.
While the Switch Lite fixed most of the problems I had with the original, I’d love to get a Switch v1 for piracy. Also, I really hope the Switch 2 has a 1080p screen and runs Switch 1 games like they’re docked, so they run in 1080p as well. Though I guess most Switch games don’t run in 1080p docked…
I got one years ago and played Super Mario Odyssey. I accumulated a handful of games here and there with the intention of getting around to them like Fire Emblem and mario rpg remakes but I tend to just play games at home so my XBox One and PS4 got way more play as my gaming PC died. I’ve always been paranoid about bringing the switch with me on a subway or train. I would rather listen to music or read or just look out the window instead of gaming all the time. Now that I have a OLED steam deck, I am less inclined to use the switch. I probably won’t get a switch 2. I am almost 40 and I don’t really know enough people who would come over and play local co-op and party games on a nintendo device to justify it.
