I love the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nintendo Switch. I think it’s in with a shout of being one of the best games consoles ever made, and the library of games it’s amassed over its seven-year lifespan is nothing short of stellar. It’s got the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:best Mario Kart ever made (sorry, Double Dash), the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:first open world Pokemon title, everyone’s pandemic obsession in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Animal Crossing: New Horizons, an excellent 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:third-person shooter, and not one, but two of the most innovative Zelda games to hit our scre𝄹ens. And that’s just the exclusives.
You can play everything from 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Hollow Knight to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Stardew Valley on Nintendo’s portable machine, and while I wouldn’t advise jumping into The Witcher 3 or 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Apex Legends on an underpowered handheld, they’re available should you so wish. So why, after all this time, have I basically stopped using the console other than to disappoint myself with a new annual instalment of an 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:increasingly middling Pokemon series?
I’m going to buy 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Super Mario Bros. Wonder, don’t worry, but I’ve had to wipe the dust from my Swit💫ch’s screen and put it on charge to do so. This great console deserves better, and I’m puzzled as to what went wrong. To figure out the answer, I need to look at what I played on the console back when it got daily use.
Alongside the obvious Zeldas and Pokemons, I see a good li✤neup of indies. Celeste, Dead Cells, Sayonara Wild Hearts, Untitled Goose Game, Gris. They’re, for the most part, perfect Switch games. You don’t need 4K textures to appreciate Gris’ watercolour palette, nor 120fps to time those double jumps in Celeste. These kinds of games are still releasing, but I’m not buying them on Switch. Why not?
Note: No matter how bad the Pokemon games get, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:I keep going back for more
I bought Dave the Diver, another game I’d categorise as ‘perfect for Switch’ on Steam. The same goes for Dredge. The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood, WrestleQuest, the list goes on. And🌌 the reason for me buying them on Steam is twofold.
Firstly, Steam has sales. I bought Dave the Diver well after release, and I’m pretty sure it was on sale. Even third-party Switch games rarely go on sale, and when they d💯o, it doesn’t tend to be as big of a reduction as on other platforms.
The second reason, however, is direct competition. I can play Steam games on my desktop PC and my Steam Deck. In work terms, this means I can nip into a game to grab a screenshot and have 🍸it perfectly synced with last night’s progress I made on the handheld. It’s a bit of a faff to get screenshots off the Switch. But also, it gives me versatility in how and when I play. In short, it does the Switch better than the Switch. Nintendo’s handheld is a victim of its own success.
I’m in a privileged position where I own both a desktop and a Steam Deck, but the pair together are far more useful for gaming than the Switch. Add in the fact Nintendo’s usually stellar exclusives haven’t hit for me this year – or last – and the♈ console gathers dust. Yes, I’m that guy who loved Breath of the Wild but fell off Tears of the Kingdom. Pokemon is terrible now. Mario Wonder could well be the blast of nostalgia I need to go fully Switch Frenzied again, but I’ll likely jump back to my PC to play more Dave the Diver.
Other companies are catching up with the Swit🐠ch. Nintendo has always relied on its first-party games to sell millions, but it also had the great roster of ‘Switch perfect’ third-party titles to back it up. Now that players have more options to play those same titles, and can play them on the go away from Nintendo’s ecosystem, Shuntaro Furukawa and co. need to think of an answer fast. I don’t know if that answer is more sales, more exclusives, or just a wild Switch 2 idea that pulls us all right back in, but the Switch deserves better than gathering dust.
