I might buy it next week after landing in japan. This would be my very first nintendo home console. Since I am going to stay for a month in the mountains in a small house w/o TV w/ my toji-in-training wife, it seems like the perfect device. I can already picture us playing puyo puyo in tabletop position on the kotatsu. Or bringin it around when I visit family to play multiplayer games w/ my nephews and nieces while not disrupting whatever is on the TV at that time.
How doed that sound? I feel I’m the target audience
I played kof '98 on handheld and it was pretty rad. Obviously, I’l have to wait for a decent controller but those glorious animations really popped on the smaller screen. I had some good times.
It depends how much you value ergonomics. Switch can be used lying down or on a couch without contorting your neck and back. The laptop has more games for it. But they will be like indie or older games, nothing like a Zelda unless you get a beefy 15" and damage ergonomics further.
28w Iris from Skylake+ should actually be somewhat comparable to the Switch’s GPU (and slightly more powerful if anything), but sadly few OEMs use those in 13" notebooks, and any ports would probably be more poorly optimized for that same baseline level of hardware
and I can almost never make a controller work with a laptop in a way I’m satisfied with
that said, PS4 and Steam streaming work pretty well these days
As I mentioned above, I’ve been really happy with this Wii U pro USB adapter: Amazon.com. The range, reliability and ease of setup on Windows 10 was impeccable and the switch to select Xinput or Dinput is really cool. There is also a magic combination that switches out the face buttons so that the positions map to the Xbox controller’s (makes on-screen instructions confusing, but overall worth).
It looks like the same company has a universal wired adapter available: Amazon.com A bit pricey, but I think I’ll buy one of these too. The idea of just setting up this one adapter once and for all, being able to use any and all of the controllers I have gathering dust, and not needing to go through a different driver install flow whenever I happen to have a different controller on hand is really appealing.
I’m pretty sick and tired of having to install unsigned drivers, having controllers not charge from my USB port, having games and controllers randomly use Dinput or Xinput, having drivers mysteriously stop working when I upgrade Windows, pairing Bluetooth not working (actually I barely tried that one because I’m shocked when that does work properly) and so on.
