Four reasons why the Nintendo Switch is overrated – Reader’s Feature
A reader argues that it’s all been downhill for the Switch since it’s amazing first year and that Nintendo need a change of direction of its successor.
The Switch is now five years old and has been a pretty much unmitigated success.
Nintendo rightly deserve praise for the console. As a Switch owner myself I’ve got a lot of love for the Switch. However, I do sometimes feel the shortcomings in the hardware are glossed over.
Here are some of the reasons why I think the Switch is at times, perhaps somewhat overrated
The lack of third party support
Thankfully I’m lucky enough to own a PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S, so this doesn’t affect me too much but missing out on great multiplatform games such as Elden Ring, Resident Evil, Control, and Red Dead Redemption 2 must be frustrating for those who only own a Switch.
Even games that do release on Switch, such as FIFA and recently Guardians Of The Galaxy, either are cloud versions only or have far less features than the Xbox/PlayStation versions.
The lack of power/graphical capability
The Switch is a great device for people like myself who play mainly in handheld mode but, let’s face it, the machine is showing its age a bit.
I’m not an expert, but from my understanding the Switch is more powerful than PlayStation 3/Xbox 360 but noticeably less so than the base PlayStation 4/Xbox One.
I’m sure that Nintendo will have had to compromise on power in order to achieve portability but still, when the Switch launched in 2017 Sony had already released the PS4 Pro. With the PlayStation 5/Xbox Series X/S now out the Switch is essentially two generations behind.
It seems as if Nintendo is always playing catch-up. Fair enough, graphics aren’t the be all and end all but imagine if developers didn’t
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