Switch never getting a web browser was probably a precaution against jailbreaking since web browser shenanigans were a very common method of getting homebrew on the DS/3DS/Wii/U.
Pretty much, because it quite literally does already have a browser(Used behind the scenes for stuff like the eShop) and the user just has no entry point without already having a modded console.
Also the way the PS3 and old PS4 and 5 firmwares were exploited. Xbox 360 only has hardmodding options and the Xbox One gave most homebrew devs what they wanted so they wouldn't hack the console, a lesson Nintendo could take if they want to actually secure their console.
Very small nitpick, but on the controllers, you know that semi-translucent ring around the home button? That's an LED. They put it in so it could flash for notifications and such. It is STILL not used. It only turns on when you use it in bluetooth for other devices. Its like they had stuff planned for the switch that they just never got around to.
@@NeightrixPrime it should also be able to do wireless display output to your TV like your phone can. But it wont for the same reason ps5 still doesn't support bluetooth headphones.
I think the only use for it is the reminder feature of Ring Fit Adventure. The Wii U also actually had the same notification LED that was almost never used lol.
I always see people complaining that the menu is too basic, and then I'm thinking, am I the only one that appreciates the lack of advertisements and convoluted pop ups everywhere? Do I really want a system to advertise Elden Ring for me when I'm playing Elden Ring?
@@Cheesehead302 I mean, fair, but also the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U and basically every other console before also doesn't show any ADs at you, so it's not something Nintendo isn't capable of.
@@Cheesehead302 yeah everyone that says the menu is too basic loves ads and popups and they want to show you elden ring ads while youre playing elden ring
ancient probably web kit and there's already exploits that haven't been developed for it and they are just terrified of opening that vulnerability to the piblic
I think the biggest problem is, that the 3DS got things that the Switch never had. Folders, Themes ect. The 3DS Activity Log was one of the best features to see how much you played a Game, how many time you started it, how long yo play every day ect. (i played this year 1524h 34min on 3DS, i wish i can say exactly how it looks on Switch)
you can still see how many hours you played a game on your switch as it will show in your profile/friends list. but it's not near as good as the 3ds activity log.
@@iscopeeeeThe only way you can see your time is by being connected online playing a game for hours to get time and looking at your account, it’s so stupid.
I remember hearing the reason they got rid of the reviews because a lot of the shovelware games would give out free copies to their friends who would spam it would 5 stars because when you would sort by ratings, the most results would always be trash.
That sounds like an issue on Nintendo's part of quality control. If they tried harder with making quality over quantity and didn't just allow anyone to post a game, reviews could still be here.
@@VivianCanReadNintendo has lost at least two generations (N64 and GameCube) to poor third party support, so I have to imagine they have decided carefully monitoring game quality from third party devs is bad for business.
@@VivianCanRead Steam still has reviews even tho you could argue Steam has worse shovelware problem. Also, Nintendo doesn't make or release those shovelware games so they can't control the quality of those games.
This is why ratings are generally heavily weighted by the number of ratings. 5 5 star ratings from the dev's friends should absolutely sort lower than 1000 4 star reviews. It's not an unsolvable problem
Switch eShop in a nutshell: *image of crawling up a mountain* (You have to crawl down the chronological list of releases to find something randomly. Earlier shops did infact make it easy to find something you didn't know existed.)
@@mr_m4613 Simple. The Wii U sold like trash. Doesn't matter how great your store is set up and organized, if no one wants to put their products on your shelves.
@@SakuraAvalon yeah but the games that got ported from the wii u are selling like gangbusters on the switch. Mario kart 8 on the Wii u sold more than most games on the ps5 and Xbox series x right now.
5:30 The funny thing about that game is that because it was a penny, you would make 1 gold nintendo point on the purchase So you would get the game for basically free, but the developer would still make a penny from the purchase
I unironically used the parental controls. When I was in college. I would bring my switch everywhere and by setting the parental control rating and to the lowest available setting to boot up any game, you would need a password meaning that if someone were to steal my switch they wouldn't be able to use it.
The lack of Miiverse and nintendo pretty much abandoning miis in games kinda made it lose personality imo. Also the lack of music on the Eshop also kills it for me lol
I know this is kind of an old comment, but there’s actually cut music that they just never ended up using. My guess is that it made it run even worse lol and they just cut it
Joycon drift is my most hated thing about the Switch by a large margin. It's hard to believe that wasn't an intentional scam because joysticks were a solved problem for decades, so Nintendo basically just forces you to buy a $70 pro controller or a series of $70 joycons
It is truly amazing. My personal critisism of the 3DS and WiiU was that if your controls are broken, you cannot just replace them without expertise. The Switch makes it replacable, but then uses sticks that are somehow even more garbage than the 3DS circle pad(Which also has a big wear out-problem). It takes years to make the gamepad drift lightly, it takes a fraction of that to make the Switch drift heavily.
I really don't see how this couldn't be someone's biggest problem with the system. They fix this issue and give Joy Cons with larger buttons and higher quality sticks, essentially my biggest problem is fixed and we have a damn fine iteration on this system. It's one of the reasons I'm so glad they're just doing the same thing but improved, there's actually an opportunity to refine stuff like this rather than just go "hey, lets throw this all away to do something new that may have its own issues." If they do it right, it will be like we're getting the Switch but perfected.
@@Cheesehead302I totally agree. I think the concept of switch is already very good. It can become Nintendo's iPhone or PlayStation as long as it is iterated normally and improves the player's gaming experience.If Nintendo wants a new gimmick, it can build on this basis like labo/ring fit adventure etc instead of completely overturning the Switch concept, which is already very successful and seems to be sustainable, and betting on a concept that it is not sure whether it will work. In short, I think the biggest problem of switch is the rail and drift problems of joycon, then the eshop and switchonline are too crappy, then the network quality needs to be improved, and finally the theme and game classification of switch.
@@nicklafleur7620 I tried it, but it just made my case worse, so I set it back to default. Hardware issues have a very low chance to be able to be addressed in software.
Ignoring the Switches' performance, especially in recent first party titles, my biggest issue is that it has no charm at all. The Gamecube's startup animation is iconic, the Wii's music for the whole UI is iconic, and the Wii U was FULL of character with Miiverse and the home screens design/music. The Switch is just... bland, boring. Solid color background, minimal animations, no goofy sounds or music...
Bang on. It's so bizarre too considering Nintendo is often seen as "The company with charm" but the Switch UI has somehow even LESS charm than the Xbox. Like, at least the Xbox has iconic achievement sounds and stuff that you associate with it. The Switch has... Nothing! It's so wild when SONY is running away with the generation with regards to having the console with the most charm overall
It's probably gonna be less annoying then because while the criticism was always present to some degree, the sales speak for themselves. The Wii U situation in the other hand...
My main complaint is how BORING it feels compared to many of Nintendo's other consoles. This was touched upon in the video already, but man, I'd kill for themes, fun little built-in applications, something like badges again, and music, amongst some things that I may be forgetting. Basically, I want gimmicks like what we saw on the 3DS again---that was great! Other than that, I hate that we have to PAY for our internet features now and how prone the joycons are to drift. Ew. Nothing else bothers me all that much.
This is the same feeling as being a Nickelodeon fan AND a Cartoon Network fan- having two shows on at once that you want to watch but have to pick between the two… At least RUclips doesn’t force you to miss one video or the other.
My biggest gripe with the console is that it lags on most of the higher end titles SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED for the switch. I can understand a port not running stable frames (Witcher 3, etc) but even the new Zelda game echoes of wisdom feels like I’m dropping frame and lagging all the time. I never felt like that with the Wii or any of the older Nintendo consoles.
I had to overclock my switch's ram so far up (base is 1600, i run my unit at 2133 or 2400) to get rid of those drops, it's not fun. Even at 2133 it still has drops in many areas but a lot less than stock clock. No idea why the devs decided to make the game run at 60FPS and if it can't maintain that it drops back to 30FPS until it can sustain 60 again, instead of just letting it do 55FPS or whatever.
Yeah I think your point is justified. It was clear by the time I played Bayonetta 3 (I legit bought my switch for the series and platinum games) and it was becoming clear that the switch was not powerful for running the type of games creators wanted to make.
The problem with the Nintendo Switch is that it shipped with a processor that was considered outdated in the tech world when it released in 2017 and if not for the pandemic it would’ve got an upgraded chip.
Oh no, Scott, your playtime isn’t even tied to your account. It is tied to the CONSOLE and your account. When I upgraded to the OLED Switch, I lost several of my play times on my most played games, including Mario Kart, Breath of the Wild, and Animal Crossing. So it’s even more backwards than you said!
Yep, but the worst part is that it isn't. When I got a new switch, my old playtime stayed for a few weeks, so it clearly saved to the account instead of the console. But slowly the old playtimes got deleted and replaced with the ones only on the new system. They could keep the entire account playtime, but change it to the console's for no reason.
@@andrewg.3281as far as I know both systems keep track of their own playtime, but only show the one that has the highest amount of time played. So if you had 40 hours of Mario Kart 8 on console A and started playing on console B it would still show 40 hours until you’ve passed 40 hours of playtime on B. But then when you’ve played 45 hours on B console A will also show 45. If you then continue playing on A for another 5 hours the internal counter on A will be moved from 40 to 45 and not 50. It’s really lame and with 3DS and WiiU I would always check it out. I’ve got a Switch and a Lite but because of this I’m not playing the same game on both consoles. It’s stupid that’s keeping me back, but it does 😅.
My problems: *1)* No achievements system. I'm not an achievements hunter, but I enjoy having a history of all the games I've played & looking back on what I've done after beating them. Switch not having one incentivizes me to buy all multiplat games elsewhere. *2)* The E-Shop. It's a slow, cumbersome & useless mess. There's no true new game discovery or individualized curation. The further you browse, the slower & less responsive the whole thing gets. It's filled with garbage that drowns out actual gems, and it's yet another thing that encourages me to buy games elsewhere. *3)* NSO / Online / Features... May as well group them together, as they all affect my enjoyment (or lack thereof) of playing anything but single player games. Still using friend codes is absurd. No true, universal account system like PS & XB with system voice chat, leaderboards, party system, etc. across the board. Even cloud saves aren't universal. And the fact Nintendo is still using Peer-to-Peer networking instead of dedicated servers in actually offensive. That's what they used when online was free, as it just uses the player's existing networks to link them together... meaning the slowest connection in the group is the speed everyone gets. It's why Smash online is unplayable.The Wii was using p2p nearly 2 decades ago because it costs nothing. Now that we're paying, put some effort in! *4)* Lack of customization. This is an obvious, day-one issue that Nintendo has just ignored. Despite how much it would make fans happy & little effort it would take, they stubbornly refuse. It would be so simple to add themes, even more so to just add basic colors beyond black & white... This is a simple thing that doesn't change how enjoyable the games are, but simple things add up & help users feel more attached & invested in their system. It's like allowing Netflix & other popular apps that have been standard everywhere for decades... They're not essential for gaming, but they'd encourage me to use my Switch as the go-to option & keep me tied to the hardware, rather than go to another console or pick up my phone. *5)* Performance. This one's obvious. The hardware being under-powered is one thing, but even Nintendo has chosen to prioritize graphics over smooth gameplay many times, and it makes for a worse experience. *6)* Lack of major 1st party AAA games. Nintendo has heavily relied on remasters, "remakes," ports & AA games for a huge portion of Switch's library. That's great & all, nobody is asking that they become Sony & just pump out the same Ubisoft-style AAA 3rd person games over & over. But we used to be guaranteed at least one or two a year, but that's not been the case this gen. AAA games take longer to develop, but Nintendo has so many partners & 3rd party joint projects filling out the rest of their lineup, I'd like them to spend more time giving us unique, major games of substance. *7)* Over reliance on the the same IPs while outright ignoring the others. Mario is popular. We all know this. But did we need 30 Mario/Mario-adjacent games on Switch? I've got Mario as my pfp, and even I'm burnt out! And out of all the quick, lower effort "remasters" & "definitive edition" ports, you couldn't be bothered to touch F-Zero or Starfox this entire gen? And no, F-Zero 99 is a digital only, NSO "99" brand game. Out of all games fans would've been ecstatic to hear got a simple HD up-res, F-Zero GX would've been it. Throw in some online (like they've done for countless retro NSO games), and fans would've been over the moon. That's not even touching on so many dormant IP like Eternal Darkness, Mother, Golden Sun, etc. *8)* Price gouging. There's no argument for it aside from greed. We all know these remasters, ports & even remakes require nowhere near the same budget, time or resources to make as brand new games. Luigi's Mansion 2 HD, DKCR HD, even Paper Mario TTYD... these are not $60 games. They should not launch at the same price as Mario Odyssey, Xenoblade 3, Fire Emblem Three Houses, Pikmin 4, Luigi's Mansion 3, Splatoon 3, etc. Those games took way more time, effort & money, yet you price these 1-2 year developed retreds for the same price. Ok, that's it... Whew. Now that I typed this despite knowing nobody will read it, I feel better. 😅
One time I complained about achievements, and some 40 year old Nintendo fan came after me saying I was an idiot for preferring the inexperienced Sony and XBOX ideas over the MASTER NINTENDO!
@PAINt0theMAXhaha, same! He got all mad and was like: well if you prefer to have pop up "atta boys!" While playing your games maybe you shouldn't be gaming at all! I was like what kind of sense does that make?
Same thing i said in my comment and a response to one will apply here, what really gets me about Nintendo nowadays is that the games you first released with the V1 of the switch are still to this day $60 pretty much years after it first released and haven't seen a price drop of any sort and i'm talking about both physical and digital copies of games that are still priced as such to this day and people "not all" seem to be pretty much okay with it. Another thing that i can't get my mind around is that the Switch internal memory is just 32 GB of storage, in 2024 almost 2025. I understand that SD cards are a thing for you to store your digital games and all and i do love my Switch i might add, but when you as a company doesn't adress, nor improve your capacity storage and still relaying not to mention thinking that 32 GB of internal storage for your system is more than enough in this day and age is just inexcusable.
Yeah the switch just sucks for multi-player no matter how you look at it. I don't give a damn about achievements most of the time, and understand why they don't want it for first party games. But even then, the social aspect is something other consoles have which Nintendo doesn't. I will intergect on the "lack of AAA first party" because unless you have a hyper-specific definition of AAA, that isn't the case at all. 2023 was particulary fantastic for AAA games, And while echoes of wisdom, brothership, and Jamboree (all late into the year tbf) don't quite reach that kind of scope, they're all still moderately big games. The excess of indies and remasters in comparison doesn't necessarily mean original titles are any more lacking than they were before (especially wii u ports since we seem to forget that the vast majority of switch owners have not played them). Imo, the price gouging feeds into this issue because it warps our perception of the actual worth of these games. AAA doesn't automatically mean 60$ which is a concept nintendo doesn't understand. So us gamers go from being satisfied with really good 40$ titles and the occasional 60$ title, to having everything being the same price and us being forced to use our money more wisely. No one would complain about lesser-titles if they weren't forced to compete with breath of the wild and smash ultimate.
2:46 No, that's pretty typical. Docked mode tends to result in worse performance not just for the eshop but for (at least some) games, like Scarlet and Violet
@@bochtabochta 720p is less than half 1080 pixel count (921k vs 2M), a lot of games drop some fancy effects in handheld mode (shadows, LoD levels, lights, grass), and I've also seen games capping framerate at 30fps (probably to improve battery life trying to not go full blast with the chip). At the same time the CPU frequency doesn't seem to be capped in handheld mode. The memory is also barely slowed down in handheld mode, so in the end you may have less bottlenecks globally than when using TV mode.
@kypdurron the cpu is always capped It only does a boost when games are loading And the boost isn't using full cpu. Official clock 1ghz Boost clock 1.7 Actual cpu max clock 2 ghz (I think the memory is also capped)
0:19 That's how I feel when I give an opinion about anything, especially music. I feel the need to ignore newer songs (more so just the biggest hits from an artist) and focus hard on deep cuts and older catalog.
lol. I understand that feeling though I personally don't share it, since I just genuinely feel like the mainstream music quality is just quite worse now
Def how I feel if I praise something like The Dark Side of the Moon or anything by The Beatles. People have heard it a million times to the point of contrarianism.
I think the main reason I do this with music specifially is that there will always be the aholes that gatekeep artists and call you a fake fan for only naming their popular stuff as your favorite or whatever. And the ironic part is.. I get it. Because when it comes down to it, if you say you like an artist but only listen to their most popular song.. you dont really like the artist.. just that song.
It’s sort of sad to see Scott’s hype for the switch slowly die down throughout the 7 years it’s been on the market, cause despite the concept of the console being pretty cool and innovative, the cracks in its foundation began to show
@@beiwubsnsod7378 Hard disagree, their specs haven't been the selling point in decades. Even when the Switch released it was still very underpowered and it's sold >150million units.
It’s wild that this homescreen, which is clearly an evolution on the DSi and 3DS homescreens, is about as functional as the DSi and a massive downgrade on the 3DS
Personally I am seriously disappointed that their closed ecosystem of curated games... isn't actually curated that well. Should have never allowed low quality shovel ware on the system, or at most a low percentage like the GameCube had. Having standards would help the usability of their eshop & improve how people see the brand/platform. Oh, and can I backup my game files to micro sd card at any time, hardware breaks, fails or gets stolen and even if you have a Nintendo online account, it won't be there forever.
I genuinely missed when websites and apps just Were snappy and responsive Just installed linux for the first time on my personal laptop And it just Turns on. Quickly. And opens things quickly. Meanwhile the smart lock app to my apartment takes actually 30 seconds to open
The Wii U tablet controller is far more comfortable, the joycons are too small, the eShop is too slow, online gaming is out-of-date, and the graphical limitations have been very frustrating time-to-time. But overall, it has been a great system because of the GAMES (Nintendo exclusives, and indie games), the portability, and the simplicity of use. It doesn’t take as long to update the system (or the games), and having physical cards for games has been great. Ease of use and convenience is a huge factor, especially when competing against tablet gaming (which dominates with the youngsters these days).
yeah this is pretty much how i feel. i have a lot of gripes with it (even as someone who has never had to deal with drift), but damn does the portability and convenience factor outweigh all of that. i love handheld gaming to death. and the output on the system has been honestly tremendous even outside of third party support
“Baby’s first a giant calculator for like senior citizens by Fischer-Price for children and for the elderly” is a sentence I never imagined would be spoken by anyone ever.
I was JUST complaining about navigating the e-shop. There are some absolute gems, sure. But oh my god do you have to scroll through 100 AI slop shovelware releases.
Honestly I hate the childificstion of the switch. To protect kids they’ve locked it down so much which is fine at first but please, if my account is over 18 let me have custom profile pics or custom wallpapers. I hate how uniform and restrictive it feels
I have two major problems with the Nintendo Switch that really affect how much I enjoy the system. First of all, the JoyCons suck, there's no way around that. No proper D-pad, the placement of the right thumbstick right underneath the face buttons and lack of triggers. The GameCube controller had fantastic triggers, it still puzzles me why Nintendo ditched them. Second of all, I miss achievements/trophies. It always makes me play a game I really like longer and/or in a way I wouldn't normally do. And it's fun to compare my achievements/trophies with my friends.
The eshop point is a HUGE point. I don't ever play my switch because I simply don't have any good games for it. It's damn near impossible to find something for the console that I'd actually LIKE to play, and the few that I DO want to play are either impossible to find carts for, or are FULL PRICE AFTER 6 YEARS. I'm not paying $60 for a launch day title.
Lots of people mentioned the cat but you're the only person who included the time stamp which was great because I missed the cat the first time around thank you
I used to think that the lack of media applications was a problem but then I had to admit that I have better ways of watching shows, this made the console way better for children, and people would be asking for dumb things like a DVD adapter.
nintendo has used the "we need ot protect the children" excuse for too long. "We can't have basic social features because we need to protect children! Also let's fill the eshop with porn!"
@@No_Life_AlexI find that even more annoying when you realize WHY they don’t have a basic share feature. Straight up they removed Twitter cause of the “Elon Tax” and never made an alternative! Before I got a SD card the song and dance of clumsily sharing a 30 second video by pulling out my phone, scanning, doing a code or whatever else and THEN I only have access to download ONE ONE DAMN VIDEO- not the library just ONE.
@@D44RK_Iced_Yogs I wasn't referring to sharing to twitter, I was referring to the lack of party chat and clunky friends system. Honestly the less people use twitter the better imo.
Not only is the friend codes an step backwards from Wii U, but also, some games had voice chat through the Gamepad's mic, another weird step backwards... remember free online? Alright, i will shut up, i would repeat myself all over again.
To be honest... I cannot personally call the Switch a "good console". Some of the issues I had with it was mentioned in this video (Joycons being kinda uncomfortable, the lack of themes, the eShop), but the benefit of portability also failed me. I've had 2 base Switches, one used, one new, and I would keep it in my pocket (It was a large, loose pocket). Within a week or two both of them had issues with the SD card reader deciding the SD card was disconnected. Granted I had first noticed when the grip I had on my Switch, when I would remove it, sometimes caused the reader to stop reading the card. Because of these issues, the Switch was demoted to just a home console. Granted, as far as games go a lot of the library simply doesn't interest me, but that aspect I'm not really holding against it. I got the Switch for Metroid Dread and got a number of other games on it, but it was never going to be my main console. Also the last time I was on my Switch was months ago when I was playing Streets of Rage 4. Had a good survival run until I accidentally pulled the cord and sent the Switch and dock onto the floor. And due to the SD card reader issues, I just lost my progress.
Seeing this makes me want to see a "Switch 2 Wishlist" video from Scott. I believe Nintendo hit a gold mind with the Switch, they just gotta build upon it and improve it.
Didn't appreciate it at first but i've warmed up to it over the years. I was just hoping for more... fun, at the start. Now there's enough good games and the experience is smooth enough that overall i'm fine with it beeing a generic Plattform for Nintendo's games
Maybe I'm alone in this but I actually love the joycon. Not only is there something novel about it in handheld mode, I had so many calming and chill gaming sessions using them split. When I was playing BoTW, Mario Odyssey, Let's Go Pikachu, I remember so many times just sitting with my arms in various relaxed positions feeling really freed by not having to sit hunched over a connected controller. Honestly I would've done it more if I didn't move my gaming setup out of the family living room and if they didn't start to drift... (I moved to the privacy of my room. It an already terribly claustrophobic setup, so using separate joycon there wouldnt exactly be as freeing as in a comfortable chair in a wide open living room.)
Definitely not alone in that. The joycons are amazing. The versatility of them are insane: they have the functions of a wii u pro controller, two snes controllers, and wiimote and numchuk all in one. And they are somehow comfortable in all of those positions as well. If they didn't drift, they would easily be my favorite video game controllers of all time. Shame they kind of became like the 3d feature on the 3ds. They're super cool and have some neat finctionality, but are largely ignored at the end of the system's life.
I like how the Joy Cons feel, but I also feel like the Switch controls have no identity. I'm constantly pressing the wrong buttons and messing up with them.
18:55 to add on to that.. my right joycon cannot charge on the switch in the dock anymore.. not because of the joycon but because of the switch itself.. now I got a separate charging for 4 joycons but.. yeah
My least favorite part about the switch is the joy cons. I am also too cheap to buy a pro controller, so I just play my wii u because of how good that controller is.
The Switch OS is probably built on top of the 3DS OS where the web browser was a point of attack to get soft mods running on the 3DS. Probably never put a fully functioning web browser on the Switch as a way to discourage casual users from soft modding their Switch.
The nintendo switch screen is so tiny, thats my only problem. Wait... why is Link walking to the left on his own? Oh... right. There's also the joycon drift.
The screen size is fine but text is often way too small. Or if the text is fine on the screen like Pokemon Sword/Shield, it's too big on a large TV. Another issues is how soft the screen is requiring a glass screen protector to avoid dust from scratching it.
18:25 idk what all of you are doing to your joycons but I’ve had my switch since launch and the the connection rail on the switch and it’s 1st joycons are fine, they don’t slide out (wiggle at most if you force it)
-The Joy-Con are too small, drift, and have sticks that wear away way too easily -for how shoddy they are, Joy-Con should not be $80 to replace, especially because no improvements have ever been made to the manufacturing -Friend codes still exist -the complete inability to directly interact with Friends making the function nearly useless unless you knew them already and coordinated your adding of each other beforehand -the sperate NSO app for voice chat that's compatible with like 5 games that nobody uses -the fact that NSO is paid even though it has virtually no (and arguably worse) perks compared to the free Wii, 3DS, and Wii U experiences -the fact that you need to pay a premium rate for what amounts to some N64/Sega Genesis games and DLC for games you're gonna buy anyway. -Online play, especially with Smash Ultimate. -the bloat of the library. Yeah a lot of games that would otherwise be trapped on the Wii U are ported so people can actually play them, but so many games aren't actually new and are just rereleases. -many new, first-party games lack the charm/character that was typical of previous generations in ways I can't place my finger on. Sure, the Wii U/3DS era had this problem too, especially with Mario games, but I feel like it's more? Pervasive? A lot of games feel very by-the-numbers and "good enough". Princess Peach Showtime was a game I was looking forward to but ultimately had to skip out on because of how mediocre it was. I regret buying Nintendo Switch Sports. Kirby Star Allies is bland. People say the Mario Sports games are bad. Animal Crossing New Horizons is a shallow game made for Instagram posts and nothing else. -I hate the Wii Sports fint being used in literally everything. Mario Party, Kirby, Pikmin, etc, all use that bland, generic font instead of previous games' fonts which had a lot of personality. Pikmin especially, goddamn. I get it's probably for accessibility, but like there's no option? No toggle? -No Themes -No media apps although this stings less than this would've 10 years ago -The eShop is slow -The system was underpowered when it game out and has only showed its age since. Any multiplatform releases are pretty much guaranteed to be greatly compromised on Switch, if a third party dev didn't skip out on Switch at all. I don't have a PC so I eventually bought a PS5 so I could play new releases like Street Fighter 6, Tekken 8, Metaphor: ReFantazio, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Persona 3 Reload, etc. -Games run poorly. More often than not, games have performance issues and Switch simply cannot keep up with modern games. An upgrade is overdue, and it's insane how they refused to make the OLED any more powerful, even though it was a perfect opportunity to revise. -etc
1) Poor Shovelware Control 2) Game Store Slow as Hell 3) Absolutely no reason why apps like RUclips need games closed to run 4) Wi-Fi quality is trash 5) Bluetooth Quality is Trash 6) Buttons are too small
7) Repairability is questionable the screws have odd patterns and are rather soft. You can never touch them with a screwdriver, and still get them completely worn out over the years
@ I didn’t even think of that but true. I work on medical equipment so I have better stuff than their repair guys probably have, but the average joe using a Walmart kit would probably destroy that thing
Sony abandoned the PS Vita because there was nothing they could do to get customers. Nintendo abandoned the Switch because there is nothing they can do to lose customers.
@@staringcorgi6475399 will be fine considered the inflation and switch oled already 349,but 499 is too damn high it will repeat 3ds situation and make Nintendo want to suicide.
My 3Ds held up for the past 14 years but my Switch already felt so broken in 2021 that on trips I'd rather take my 3Ds with me. The Switch 2 NEEDS to be more durable or it is a flop for me.
I don't understand that a 20$ third-partycontroller that I have used since 2015 for my Steam games has never had issues, but the $70 Joy-Con from a billion dollar company that basically revolutionised the gaming since the 80s gets "Stick Drift" within a year. It's disgusting practice. Nintendo needs to let old Japanese and American investors control how Nintendo works, and listen to fan's criticism. I feel Nintendo execs have this huge pride that they want everything to he very Nintendo, and don't want to evolve with the market in positive. Integrate Discord, or a better voice chat. Stop charging for Online Play. Themes. Better apps. Allow for an Internet Browser. I honestly play on my Nintendo for Pokèmon & Legend of Zelda... their is no other reason to play the Nintendo. Their is an argument to be made for entertaining party games, and indie platformer/adventure games, but I have those on my PC.
I will say objectively, as a fan of Nintendo's games, the Switch is a severely underpowered console with awful online that you still have to pay for, a terrible storefront and iffy at best controllers. I meant the portable thing is cool, but I think objectively it is not a very great console
What I love about the Switch: - Great library of exclusives - You can play a lot of your games on the go - Large screen means you don’t have to slouch or squint - HD Rumble haptics - It takes up very little space when docked - Tons of controllers you can use - Impressive console ports during the Switch’s early years What I don’t love about the Switch: - The dreaded joy-con drift, and it’s something Nintendo has neglected to fix - It’s heavier than your average handheld - First-party titles are still expensive, where’s Nintendo Selects/Player’s Choice? - NSO being a half-assed subscription with classic games being drip-fed instead of being readily available for purchase on the eShop - Sluggish eShop UX - Later releases are being held back by the Switch’s aging hardware - Later first-party releases that weren’t Splatoon, Smash Bros., or Mario Kart had minimal updates, they really wasted ACNH’s potential…
I think the included joy-con Grp is also worth mentioning as an issue because it comes with the purchase. Even after the LED revision came out it still cant be used to recharge. This means if you do actually use it you're constantly removing joy-cons to charge. That leads to additional avoidable cumbersome wear and tear to the point that you just buy a dedicated pro controller. That in turn means that the included Joy-Con Grip is not really used at all in either scenario and is basically landfill trash.
I don't think the joy-con grip is that big of a deal to wearing out the rails connecting them repeatedly. The strap slide however, seems way too tight in spec and takes a lot of force to remove. I expect repeated use of the strap slides to destroy the controller.
For me aside of the lack of themes "which the 3DS did better" and the painfully slow Eshop and it's funky UI, the fact that most of their first games after the console debuted are still $60 is ludicrous to say the least. Sure, Nintendo doesn't see any problem with it since it sells like hotcakes on a Ihop but still it's ridiculous that the price hasn't seen any sort of drop since then and are still being sold at that price like they were brand new after all these years.
This is why I play on PC now. Having to pay monthly to play online, when I already pay for internet is totally bs. I miss out on a lot of exclusive games from the consoles, but oh well.
The refusal to allow us to cloud save *all* games is quite possibly the biggest travesty. People losing their saves when they pay for a service that’s suppose to stop that from happening… Cheating? Don’t care. People cheating is better than people loosing their saves. If they care, get competent, hire people who know how to do this. They exist. Just make a real MMO out of Pokemon for the competitive market.
get the moba pad M6 HD, it turns the switch into the most comfortable handheld you ever held. they cost less than the original joycons and have HAL magnetic Analogue sticks, no drift ever, and mechanical buttons.
Another fun fact about the play time is the fact it’s tied to the switch itself not the account. I got a second one once the se card slot broke in my first one and all the playtimes didn’t exist after I played on that new switch.
I feel like people are constantly talking about the ways the switch fucked up? which is totally fair and valid especially when it comes to quality control on the hardware but. Scott isn't really saying anything too bold here.
@@audoodle9963 well i guess i just dont hear about it. Most of the switch opinions i hear are related to how much of a success it is and of course rumors. Hardly ever see constructive criticism other than that one time the whole joycon drift thing went viral.
@@RiqMoran Because (for me at least) it kinda pales in comparison to the releases of the Switch. Mario Odyssey, Breath of The Wild (Even though it originally released on the Wii U), Smash Bros Ultimate, Mario Wonder, Tears of The Kingdom, so many actual wonderful games that have come out on the Nintendo Switch. I acknowledge the flaws of the console, but it doesn't really bother me, because Nintendo releases genuinely good games, at least in my opinion. I just don't care, because I can still enjoy the games. I do agree with the fact that the eShop is definitely problematic though.
18:45 lmao I thought that issue was pretty uncommon for switches. The only difference is that I'm 95% sure i got it after the console was thrown against a wall
i hate that the switch 2 (presumably) has nearly the exact same design with the same designed joycons. no ergonomics at all. people say "if it aint broke, dont fix it." but idk this kinda broken.
Wana bet its gona be even worse. 3ds and new 3ds for example. They removed side button that let you turn off internet. 2 probaly wont even have a memory card slot.
@@Bullminator Well, at least you can turn it off from the menu. Still dumb that they removed the physical switch. Also, putting the SD card slot under the backplate.
Something I have noticed with the folders is that I sorted all my physical games in folders from A-Z and I have 600+ games that I had added. Then one day, the most of them is gone from each folder (there is like around 200 left now) and noticed that the ones there is there is the one there have a tiny update or I just added. I did like to have my full library of physical games as icons on it, but..yea..that was strange. I know it can have 2000 icons, but why it does this, I have no idea...
Also why the hell did the Switch not have a proper diary system like the 3DS and Wii U? Would it really be that hard for the Switch to have a .txt file that keeps track of how much you've played something? Instead your play time is paused forever or straight up disappears if you play on more than one system...
Also don’t forget if you play more than like 15 games then the oldest games playtime on your profile will just disappear until you open them again. I LIKE having my games with 200+ hours at the top, like my chill Pacific (illusion magic) Legendary Survival Skyrim playthrough that took me forever and was a great time.
Switch never getting a web browser was probably a precaution against jailbreaking since web browser shenanigans were a very common method of getting homebrew on the DS/3DS/Wii/U.
Pretty much, because it quite literally does already have a browser(Used behind the scenes for stuff like the eShop) and the user just has no entry point without already having a modded console.
Building a secure web browser is too hard for nintendo
they need to accept that it wont stop us and only hinders itself in the process.
Oh yeah, only for there to be 3 different exploits already present to jailbreak it. We literally have names for it, a softmod and a hard mod.
Also the way the PS3 and old PS4 and 5 firmwares were exploited. Xbox 360 only has hardmodding options and the Xbox One gave most homebrew devs what they wanted so they wouldn't hack the console, a lesson Nintendo could take if they want to actually secure their console.
Very small nitpick, but on the controllers, you know that semi-translucent ring around the home button? That's an LED. They put it in so it could flash for notifications and such. It is STILL not used. It only turns on when you use it in bluetooth for other devices. Its like they had stuff planned for the switch that they just never got around to.
That just reminded me that they sold the console with Bluetooth and left it disabled on purpose for years.
It does flash when you use the also barely used Timers feature… only game I know of that uses it though is Ring Fit Adventure
It is used extremely sparingly
@@NeightrixPrime it should also be able to do wireless display output to your TV like your phone can. But it wont for the same reason ps5 still doesn't support bluetooth headphones.
I think the only use for it is the reminder feature of Ring Fit Adventure. The Wii U also actually had the same notification LED that was almost never used lol.
Thank you for zooming out and showing the cat I do genuinely enjoy that
omg hai basil!!
The way he says “my little sweetie”
Once a kitty joins the video it's irrelevant whats being talked about, the kitty is everyone's focus and Scott knows it
The last home screen I have left without a single ad or popup on it.
That's a big plus.
I always see people complaining that the menu is too basic, and then I'm thinking, am I the only one that appreciates the lack of advertisements and convoluted pop ups everywhere? Do I really want a system to advertise Elden Ring for me when I'm playing Elden Ring?
@@Cheesehead302 I mean, fair, but also the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U and basically every other console before also doesn't show any ADs at you, so it's not something Nintendo isn't capable of.
@apastelnerd you could argue that Miiverse was a glorified ad. I wouldn't, but one could make that argument.
@@Cheesehead302 yeah everyone that says the menu is too basic loves ads and popups and they want to show you elden ring ads while youre playing elden ring
1:34 Not based on a website. It is a website, and the reason it’s so slow is because the Switch’s built in web browser is just garbage.
ancient probably web kit and there's already exploits that haven't been developed for it and they are just terrified of opening that vulnerability to the piblic
is it possible to access the switch Eshop on a non-switch web browser?
@@Colind8yeah their e shop website on any device lol
@@Colind8Yes, on Nintendo’s website under Games.
@@Colind8 I don’t see why not (except maybe a ban if you do it wrong). You can do it for the Wii shop
I think the biggest problem is, that the 3DS got things that the Switch never had. Folders, Themes ect.
The 3DS Activity Log was one of the best features to see how much you played a Game, how many time you started it, how long yo play every day ect. (i played this year 1524h 34min on 3DS, i wish i can say exactly how it looks on Switch)
i miss activity log :( i don't understand why nintendo didn't put it on switch
you can still see how many hours you played a game on your switch as it will show in your profile/friends list. but it's not near as good as the 3ds activity log.
@@iscopeeeeswitches os in general sucks. There is just so much lost there.
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@@iscopeeeeThe only way you can see your time is by being connected online playing a game for hours to get time and looking at your account, it’s so stupid.
I remember hearing the reason they got rid of the reviews because a lot of the shovelware games would give out free copies to their friends who would spam it would 5 stars because when you would sort by ratings, the most results would always be trash.
That sounds like an issue on Nintendo's part of quality control. If they tried harder with making quality over quantity and didn't just allow anyone to post a game, reviews could still be here.
@@VivianCanReadNintendo has lost at least two generations (N64 and GameCube) to poor third party support, so I have to imagine they have decided carefully monitoring game quality from third party devs is bad for business.
@@VivianCanRead Steam still has reviews even tho you could argue Steam has worse shovelware problem. Also, Nintendo doesn't make or release those shovelware games so they can't control the quality of those games.
This is why ratings are generally heavily weighted by the number of ratings. 5 5 star ratings from the dev's friends should absolutely sort lower than 1000 4 star reviews. It's not an unsolvable problem
The Wii U and 3DS eshops were _so much_ more fun to explore compared to the switch eshop.
Switch eShop in a nutshell: *image of crawling up a mountain* (You have to crawl down the chronological list of releases to find something randomly. Earlier shops did infact make it easy to find something you didn't know existed.)
I find it weird that the Wii u had the worst library but the best E shop, however the switch has the best library but the so called worst E shop.
@@mr_m4613 Simple. The Wii U sold like trash. Doesn't matter how great your store is set up and organized, if no one wants to put their products on your shelves.
@@SakuraAvalon yeah but the games that got ported from the wii u are selling like gangbusters on the switch. Mario kart 8 on the Wii u sold more than most games on the ps5 and Xbox series x right now.
@@mr_m4613 So, you're saying that if you have more than 10x the install base, you'll sell more copies?
Wowie.
5:30 The funny thing about that game is that because it was a penny, you would make 1 gold nintendo point on the purchase
So you would get the game for basically free, but the developer would still make a penny from the purchase
Wait is that true? I thought you got a gold point for every £? So for 1p you'd get nothing.
@@mrwho995 I thought it was 100p per dollar but I could be wrong.
@@FordFighter-vc5sb One gold point is worth one penny/cent if that's what you mean, but you get one gold point for every £/$ you spend IIRC
@@mrwho995Ahh I see, I knew it was something like that just didn’t know the specifics. Thank you!
Yes that's how money works
My biggest problem with the switchy shop is that you can't gift people games directly from the eShop or buy codes anywhere other than retailers.
"the switchy shop" 🤣
@NinjaPieceLOL It's how my little sister says it 😂
It always baffled me how you could gift games on the Wii Shop Channel, and then they scrapped that feature and never brought it back.
Because money@@OffAirProductions
Bro used voice to text
I unironically used the parental controls. When I was in college. I would bring my switch everywhere and by setting the parental control rating and to the lowest available setting to boot up any game, you would need a password meaning that if someone were to steal my switch they wouldn't be able to use it.
Meow meow then I would break it mrow meow
Wouldnt you just. Format the switch
@fgvcosmic6752 not without the code
lol you can disable the parental controls super easily. Nintendo even provides a website to defeat the password protection.
@@SpaceCat712Newsthis is the funniest comment i’ve ever seen please keep up with the bit
The lack of Miiverse and nintendo pretty much abandoning miis in games kinda made it lose personality imo. Also the lack of music on the Eshop also kills it for me lol
Same here
Yeah. It lost what made the Nintendo consoles before have more features and have more life in a game console and that was lacking in the Switch.
I know this is kind of an old comment, but there’s actually cut music that they just never ended up using. My guess is that it made it run even worse lol and they just cut it
Joycon drift is my most hated thing about the Switch by a large margin. It's hard to believe that wasn't an intentional scam because joysticks were a solved problem for decades, so Nintendo basically just forces you to buy a $70 pro controller or a series of $70 joycons
It is truly amazing. My personal critisism of the 3DS and WiiU was that if your controls are broken, you cannot just replace them without expertise. The Switch makes it replacable, but then uses sticks that are somehow even more garbage than the 3DS circle pad(Which also has a big wear out-problem). It takes years to make the gamepad drift lightly, it takes a fraction of that to make the Switch drift heavily.
There's an option in the switch menu to recalibrate the sticks, fixed my drift many times
I really don't see how this couldn't be someone's biggest problem with the system. They fix this issue and give Joy Cons with larger buttons and higher quality sticks, essentially my biggest problem is fixed and we have a damn fine iteration on this system. It's one of the reasons I'm so glad they're just doing the same thing but improved, there's actually an opportunity to refine stuff like this rather than just go "hey, lets throw this all away to do something new that may have its own issues." If they do it right, it will be like we're getting the Switch but perfected.
@@Cheesehead302I totally agree. I think the concept of switch is already very good. It can become Nintendo's iPhone or PlayStation as long as it is iterated normally and improves the player's gaming experience.If Nintendo wants a new gimmick, it can build on this basis like labo/ring fit adventure etc instead of completely overturning the Switch concept, which is already very successful and seems to be sustainable, and betting on a concept that it is not sure whether it will work. In short, I think the biggest problem of switch is the rail and drift problems of joycon, then the eshop and switchonline are too crappy, then the network quality needs to be improved, and finally the theme and game classification of switch.
@@nicklafleur7620 I tried it, but it just made my case worse, so I set it back to default. Hardware issues have a very low chance to be able to be addressed in software.
Ignoring the Switches' performance, especially in recent first party titles, my biggest issue is that it has no charm at all. The Gamecube's startup animation is iconic, the Wii's music for the whole UI is iconic, and the Wii U was FULL of character with Miiverse and the home screens design/music. The Switch is just... bland, boring. Solid color background, minimal animations, no goofy sounds or music...
Bang on. It's so bizarre too considering Nintendo is often seen as "The company with charm" but the Switch UI has somehow even LESS charm than the Xbox. Like, at least the Xbox has iconic achievement sounds and stuff that you associate with it. The Switch has... Nothing!
It's so wild when SONY is running away with the generation with regards to having the console with the most charm overall
I'm so sad that the switch eShop has no background music like the Wii or 3DS
@Conquistadorr_considering how slow the Switch eShop is it’s probably for the best it doesn’t play music in the background.
ok seriously this thread is more infected than my toenails
That's what happened with the Wii U. I've always loved that console since I got it in 2014
The classic cycle and circle of hatred
Guaranteed. Happens every time.
It's probably gonna be less annoying then because while the criticism was always present to some degree, the sales speak for themselves. The Wii U situation in the other hand...
If the successor fixes some, or at least the main problems, of the actual system, i totally believe that's gonna happen
My main complaint is how BORING it feels compared to many of Nintendo's other consoles. This was touched upon in the video already, but man, I'd kill for themes, fun little built-in applications, something like badges again, and music, amongst some things that I may be forgetting. Basically, I want gimmicks like what we saw on the 3DS again---that was great!
Other than that, I hate that we have to PAY for our internet features now and how prone the joycons are to drift. Ew.
Nothing else bothers me all that much.
It’s wild there still isn’t an inbuilt achievement system, something a LOT of players want when playing through games.
It's crazy how I can't think of a single ui element that the switch does better than the 3ds did
Yeah the Switch was clearly rushed... and then Nintendo just FORGOT to actually finish it after it was released.
It's so, so weird.
@@HouseOfFunQM I was clearly rushed too...but I didn't forget to exact full revenge on who rushed me...meow meow
Like with NSO they do those icons that you need to redeem points for, imagen if they had themes along side it so you could get more
A new Scott the Woz AND Scott's Stash on the same day?! Wow!
on christmas!
It's a Christmas Miracle 🎄
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Stash >>>
the 3ds ui was so much better than the switch
3DS is a goated console
It's actually insane how there's not a single ui element that is better on switch than on the 3ds
I haven’t even finished the other video yet Scott chill 💀
Bro gifting us with his presence
scott is the diddy of gaming
This is the same feeling as being a Nickelodeon fan AND a Cartoon Network fan- having two shows on at once that you want to watch but have to pick between the two…
At least RUclips doesn’t force you to miss one video or the other.
@@EstradaDuran-sg6coelaborate??
I going to watch this first, to save it for when I am free from life
My biggest gripe with the console is that it lags on most of the higher end titles SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED for the switch. I can understand a port not running stable frames (Witcher 3, etc) but even the new Zelda game echoes of wisdom feels like I’m dropping frame and lagging all the time. I never felt like that with the Wii or any of the older Nintendo consoles.
I had to overclock my switch's ram so far up (base is 1600, i run my unit at 2133 or 2400) to get rid of those drops, it's not fun. Even at 2133 it still has drops in many areas but a lot less than stock clock. No idea why the devs decided to make the game run at 60FPS and if it can't maintain that it drops back to 30FPS until it can sustain 60 again, instead of just letting it do 55FPS or whatever.
Yeah I think your point is justified. It was clear by the time I played Bayonetta 3 (I legit bought my switch for the series and platinum games) and it was becoming clear that the switch was not powerful for running the type of games creators wanted to make.
The problem with the Nintendo Switch is that it shipped with a processor that was considered outdated in the tech world when it released in 2017 and if not for the pandemic it would’ve got an upgraded chip.
That´s just a design choice Nintendo has been making that forever. Mario 64 had a eel running at like 14 fps. It doesn´t bother me much.
@@Adamtendo_player_1 tbf even PS4 was considered to be using "outdated" chips back in 2013, yet it's still more powerful than the Switch...
We need more cat appearances
We really do.
No offense Mr. Bozniak, but I'd take a feature length video of nothing but cat stroking.
Oh no, Scott, your playtime isn’t even tied to your account. It is tied to the CONSOLE and your account. When I upgraded to the OLED Switch, I lost several of my play times on my most played games, including Mario Kart, Breath of the Wild, and Animal Crossing. So it’s even more backwards than you said!
Yep, but the worst part is that it isn't. When I got a new switch, my old playtime stayed for a few weeks, so it clearly saved to the account instead of the console. But slowly the old playtimes got deleted and replaced with the ones only on the new system.
They could keep the entire account playtime, but change it to the console's for no reason.
@@andrewg.3281as far as I know both systems keep track of their own playtime, but only show the one that has the highest amount of time played. So if you had 40 hours of Mario Kart 8 on console A and started playing on console B it would still show 40 hours until you’ve passed 40 hours of playtime on B. But then when you’ve played 45 hours on B console A will also show 45. If you then continue playing on A for another 5 hours the internal counter on A will be moved from 40 to 45 and not 50. It’s really lame and with 3DS and WiiU I would always check it out. I’ve got a Switch and a Lite but because of this I’m not playing the same game on both consoles. It’s stupid that’s keeping me back, but it does 😅.
9:34 This is the biggest yet most subtle flex I've ever seen
Man I didn’t even notice at first but that’s crazy
My problems:
*1)* No achievements system. I'm not an achievements hunter, but I enjoy having a history of all the games I've played & looking back on what I've done after beating them. Switch not having one incentivizes me to buy all multiplat games elsewhere.
*2)* The E-Shop. It's a slow, cumbersome & useless mess. There's no true new game discovery or individualized curation. The further you browse, the slower & less responsive the whole thing gets. It's filled with garbage that drowns out actual gems, and it's yet another thing that encourages me to buy games elsewhere.
*3)* NSO / Online / Features... May as well group them together, as they all affect my enjoyment (or lack thereof) of playing anything but single player games. Still using friend codes is absurd. No true, universal account system like PS & XB with system voice chat, leaderboards, party system, etc. across the board. Even cloud saves aren't universal.
And the fact Nintendo is still using Peer-to-Peer networking instead of dedicated servers in actually offensive. That's what they used when online was free, as it just uses the player's existing networks to link them together... meaning the slowest connection in the group is the speed everyone gets. It's why Smash online is unplayable.The Wii was using p2p nearly 2 decades ago because it costs nothing. Now that we're paying, put some effort in!
*4)* Lack of customization. This is an obvious, day-one issue that Nintendo has just ignored. Despite how much it would make fans happy & little effort it would take, they stubbornly refuse. It would be so simple to add themes, even more so to just add basic colors beyond black & white...
This is a simple thing that doesn't change how enjoyable the games are, but simple things add up & help users feel more attached & invested in their system. It's like allowing Netflix & other popular apps that have been standard everywhere for decades... They're not essential for gaming, but they'd encourage me to use my Switch as the go-to option & keep me tied to the hardware, rather than go to another console or pick up my phone.
*5)* Performance. This one's obvious. The hardware being under-powered is one thing, but even Nintendo has chosen to prioritize graphics over smooth gameplay many times, and it makes for a worse experience.
*6)* Lack of major 1st party AAA games. Nintendo has heavily relied on remasters, "remakes," ports & AA games for a huge portion of Switch's library. That's great & all, nobody is asking that they become Sony & just pump out the same Ubisoft-style AAA 3rd person games over & over.
But we used to be guaranteed at least one or two a year, but that's not been the case this gen. AAA games take longer to develop, but Nintendo has so many partners & 3rd party joint projects filling out the rest of their lineup, I'd like them to spend more time giving us unique, major games of substance.
*7)* Over reliance on the the same IPs while outright ignoring the others. Mario is popular. We all know this. But did we need 30 Mario/Mario-adjacent games on Switch? I've got Mario as my pfp, and even I'm burnt out!
And out of all the quick, lower effort "remasters" & "definitive edition" ports, you couldn't be bothered to touch F-Zero or Starfox this entire gen? And no, F-Zero 99 is a digital only, NSO "99" brand game. Out of all games fans would've been ecstatic to hear got a simple HD up-res, F-Zero GX would've been it. Throw in some online (like they've done for countless retro NSO games), and fans would've been over the moon.
That's not even touching on so many dormant IP like Eternal Darkness, Mother, Golden Sun, etc.
*8)* Price gouging. There's no argument for it aside from greed. We all know these remasters, ports & even remakes require nowhere near the same budget, time or resources to make as brand new games.
Luigi's Mansion 2 HD, DKCR HD, even Paper Mario TTYD... these are not $60 games. They should not launch at the same price as Mario Odyssey, Xenoblade 3, Fire Emblem Three Houses, Pikmin 4, Luigi's Mansion 3, Splatoon 3, etc. Those games took way more time, effort & money, yet you price these 1-2 year developed retreds for the same price.
Ok, that's it... Whew. Now that I typed this despite knowing nobody will read it, I feel better. 😅
One time I complained about achievements, and some 40 year old Nintendo fan came after me saying I was an idiot for preferring the inexperienced Sony and XBOX ideas over the MASTER NINTENDO!
You nailed every reason why the switch is not my preferred way to play.
@PAINt0theMAXhaha, same! He got all mad and was like: well if you prefer to have pop up "atta boys!" While playing your games maybe you shouldn't be gaming at all! I was like what kind of sense does that make?
Same thing i said in my comment and a response to one will apply here, what really gets me about Nintendo nowadays is that the games you first released with the V1 of the switch are still to this day $60 pretty much years after it first released and haven't seen a price drop of any sort and i'm talking about both physical and digital copies of games that are still priced as such to this day and people "not all" seem to be pretty much okay with it.
Another thing that i can't get my mind around is that the Switch internal memory is just 32 GB of storage, in 2024 almost 2025. I understand that SD cards are a thing for you to store your digital games and all and i do love my Switch i might add, but when you as a company doesn't adress, nor improve your capacity storage and still relaying not to mention thinking that 32 GB of internal storage for your system is more than enough in this day and age is just inexcusable.
Yeah the switch just sucks for multi-player no matter how you look at it. I don't give a damn about achievements most of the time, and understand why they don't want it for first party games. But even then, the social aspect is something other consoles have which Nintendo doesn't.
I will intergect on the "lack of AAA first party" because unless you have a hyper-specific definition of AAA, that isn't the case at all. 2023 was particulary fantastic for AAA games, And while echoes of wisdom, brothership, and Jamboree (all late into the year tbf) don't quite reach that kind of scope, they're all still moderately big games. The excess of indies and remasters in comparison doesn't necessarily mean original titles are any more lacking than they were before (especially wii u ports since we seem to forget that the vast majority of switch owners have not played them). Imo, the price gouging feeds into this issue because it warps our perception of the actual worth of these games. AAA doesn't automatically mean 60$ which is a concept nintendo doesn't understand. So us gamers go from being satisfied with really good 40$ titles and the occasional 60$ title, to having everything being the same price and us being forced to use our money more wisely. No one would complain about lesser-titles if they weren't forced to compete with breath of the wild and smash ultimate.
2:46 No, that's pretty typical. Docked mode tends to result in worse performance not just for the eshop but for (at least some) games, like Scarlet and Violet
it's weird because in docked mode the GPU is clocked at 768mhz
while in handheld it's only 368mhz
@@bochtabochta 720p is less than half 1080 pixel count (921k vs 2M), a lot of games drop some fancy effects in handheld mode (shadows, LoD levels, lights, grass), and I've also seen games capping framerate at 30fps (probably to improve battery life trying to not go full blast with the chip). At the same time the CPU frequency doesn't seem to be capped in handheld mode.
The memory is also barely slowed down in handheld mode, so in the end you may have less bottlenecks globally than when using TV mode.
@kypdurron the cpu is always capped
It only does a boost when games are loading
And the boost isn't using full cpu.
Official clock 1ghz
Boost clock 1.7
Actual cpu max clock 2 ghz
(I think the memory is also capped)
Reviews: Why does this game cost full price or even more than what it cost on other consoles???
Nintendo: Removes the review option entirely.
Scott the Woz and Scott’s Stash on the same day it’s a Christmas miracle
It's a Festivus miracle.
0:19 That's how I feel when I give an opinion about anything, especially music. I feel the need to ignore newer songs (more so just the biggest hits from an artist) and focus hard on deep cuts and older catalog.
lol. I understand that feeling though I personally don't share it, since I just genuinely feel like the mainstream music quality is just quite worse now
@@PrixtoTNT It is worse and that's an objective fact lol
Def how I feel if I praise something like The Dark Side of the Moon or anything by The Beatles. People have heard it a million times to the point of contrarianism.
@@NickGoblin
Hey if you genuinely think those're good works stick to your guns man.
I think the main reason I do this with music specifially is that there will always be the aholes that gatekeep artists and call you a fake fan for only naming their popular stuff as your favorite or whatever. And the ironic part is.. I get it. Because when it comes down to it, if you say you like an artist but only listen to their most popular song.. you dont really like the artist.. just that song.
It’s sort of sad to see Scott’s hype for the switch slowly die down throughout the 7 years it’s been on the market, cause despite the concept of the console being pretty cool and innovative, the cracks in its foundation began to show
That’s bound to happen with anything. The longer you have something the more its problems (no matter how small) feel larger and larger.
Also; literal cracks in the foundation of the shells haha.
Once the steam deck was released, it raised the standards for modern handhelds and Nintendo can only rely on branding over specs for so long.
@@beiwubsnsod7378that’s bullshit. Steam deck is far from being a hit and Switch sells thanks to its software.
@@beiwubsnsod7378 Hard disagree, their specs haven't been the selling point in decades. Even when the Switch released it was still very underpowered and it's sold >150million units.
It’s wild that this homescreen, which is clearly an evolution on the DSi and 3DS homescreens, is about as functional as the DSi and a massive downgrade on the 3DS
Yeah, I got a 3DS last year for the first time and loved it's charm, web browser and it's little jingles,
Personally I am seriously disappointed that their closed ecosystem of curated games... isn't actually curated that well. Should have never allowed low quality shovel ware on the system, or at most a low percentage like the GameCube had. Having standards would help the usability of their eshop & improve how people see the brand/platform.
Oh, and can I backup my game files to micro sd card at any time, hardware breaks, fails or gets stolen and even if you have a Nintendo online account, it won't be there forever.
Most GameCube games were bad
Thanks Nintendo for allowing shitshovelware (and cryptominers??) but say no to betas and alphas of indie titles...
@@Supercoolusername-f4s Lol no
How is Mario Kart 8 Deluxe digital still $60 on the eShop? That is the true Nintendo tax.
is it fair to the person who bought the game in 2017?
@@guyfierimtwi (p.s. it’s called discounting)
They’ve discounted the digital copy before for Mario day
@@guyfierimtwiYes, they got it earlier than someone else. If that's your argument, why would anyone put anything on sale?
@@Soup-man they don't do sales because they don't want to make people who didn't wait for the sale to be sad. - Satoru Iwata
I genuinely missed when websites and apps just
Were snappy and responsive
Just installed linux for the first time on my personal laptop
And it just
Turns on. Quickly. And opens things quickly.
Meanwhile the smart lock app to my apartment takes actually 30 seconds to open
These corps and business seem to forget that responsiveness and like efficiency is a thing
Right??🤢🤢
4:41 He broke the carpet "floor" effect lol
It's a Christmas miracle
The cat is adorable.
He did it for the cat
The Wii U tablet controller is far more comfortable, the joycons are too small, the eShop is too slow, online gaming is out-of-date, and the graphical limitations have been very frustrating time-to-time.
But overall, it has been a great system because of the GAMES (Nintendo exclusives, and indie games), the portability, and the simplicity of use.
It doesn’t take as long to update the system (or the games), and having physical cards for games has been great. Ease of use and convenience is a huge factor, especially when competing against tablet gaming (which dominates with the youngsters these days).
yeah this is pretty much how i feel. i have a lot of gripes with it (even as someone who has never had to deal with drift), but damn does the portability and convenience factor outweigh all of that. i love handheld gaming to death. and the output on the system has been honestly tremendous even outside of third party support
There must be dozens of fans of the Wii U gamepad
scott's kitty shielding our eyes from the terrible ai art slop... so kind
scott is my favorite fictional person
“Baby’s first a giant calculator for like senior citizens by Fischer-Price for children and for the elderly” is a sentence I never imagined would be spoken by anyone ever.
I was JUST complaining about navigating the e-shop. There are some absolute gems, sure. But oh my god do you have to scroll through 100 AI slop shovelware releases.
Personally, I want folders to tuck away things into one space and get rid of it from the home screen, like I don't need 5 NSO apps on my home screen
The groups were worth it for that one video of Andre from Gamexplain getting ridiculously exited for them. Like dude, it’s FOLDERS.
Honestly I hate the childificstion of the switch.
To protect kids they’ve locked it down so much which is fine at first but please, if my account is over 18 let me have custom profile pics or custom wallpapers. I hate how uniform and restrictive it feels
4:18 kitty timestamp
I have two major problems with the Nintendo Switch that really affect how much I enjoy the system. First of all, the JoyCons suck, there's no way around that. No proper D-pad, the placement of the right thumbstick right underneath the face buttons and lack of triggers. The GameCube controller had fantastic triggers, it still puzzles me why Nintendo ditched them. Second of all, I miss achievements/trophies. It always makes me play a game I really like longer and/or in a way I wouldn't normally do. And it's fun to compare my achievements/trophies with my friends.
The eshop point is a HUGE point. I don't ever play my switch because I simply don't have any good games for it. It's damn near impossible to find something for the console that I'd actually LIKE to play, and the few that I DO want to play are either impossible to find carts for, or are FULL PRICE AFTER 6 YEARS. I'm not paying $60 for a launch day title.
This is exactly why my Switch is collecting dust while the 3DS is 10x more enjoyable to play with
@@zerron2156 same bro same I'll rather pull up my ps2 or wii U than deal with a swtich
They’re about to announce the new Switch and a used copy of smash bros still costs 55$ at gamestop
@Dutchmaster707 even buying games on ebay, it's still $30 if you're VERY LUCKY. MK8 shouldn't be $60 almost a decade after it released
@ yea i sold my copies of smash and BOTW like 3-4 years ago online for around 40$ their still around that price like u said
Just please bring back the magical Wii, DSi, Wii U and 3DS UI style and first-party software OST for the Switch 2. That is all I ask for.
I’m still waiting on console themes 😔
4:19 KITTY! 🐈
Lots of people mentioned the cat but you're the only person who included the time stamp which was great because I missed the cat the first time around thank you
I used to think that the lack of media applications was a problem but then I had to admit that I have better ways of watching shows, this made the console way better for children, and people would be asking for dumb things like a DVD adapter.
1% of the users use the applications on the GUI.
nintendo has used the "we need ot protect the children" excuse for too long. "We can't have basic social features because we need to protect children! Also let's fill the eshop with porn!"
@@No_Life_AlexI find that even more annoying when you realize WHY they don’t have a basic share feature. Straight up they removed Twitter cause of the “Elon Tax” and never made an alternative!
Before I got a SD card the song and dance of clumsily sharing a 30 second video by pulling out my phone, scanning, doing a code or whatever else and THEN I only have access to download ONE ONE DAMN VIDEO- not the library just ONE.
@@D44RK_Iced_Yogs I wasn't referring to sharing to twitter, I was referring to the lack of party chat and clunky friends system. Honestly the less people use twitter the better imo.
@@D44RK_Iced_Yogs When I said social features I was referring to lack of party chat/miiverse. Honestly the less people using twitter the better.
Not only is the friend codes an step backwards from Wii U, but also, some games had voice chat through the Gamepad's mic, another weird step backwards... remember free online? Alright, i will shut up, i would repeat myself all over again.
To be honest... I cannot personally call the Switch a "good console". Some of the issues I had with it was mentioned in this video (Joycons being kinda uncomfortable, the lack of themes, the eShop), but the benefit of portability also failed me. I've had 2 base Switches, one used, one new, and I would keep it in my pocket (It was a large, loose pocket). Within a week or two both of them had issues with the SD card reader deciding the SD card was disconnected. Granted I had first noticed when the grip I had on my Switch, when I would remove it, sometimes caused the reader to stop reading the card.
Because of these issues, the Switch was demoted to just a home console. Granted, as far as games go a lot of the library simply doesn't interest me, but that aspect I'm not really holding against it. I got the Switch for Metroid Dread and got a number of other games on it, but it was never going to be my main console.
Also the last time I was on my Switch was months ago when I was playing Streets of Rage 4. Had a good survival run until I accidentally pulled the cord and sent the Switch and dock onto the floor. And due to the SD card reader issues, I just lost my progress.
Reading that title made me imagine Scott frantically writing a last minute essay after realizing the Switch 2 is about to be announced soon.
7 years after launch is the best time to complain about a console, really
Almost 8 years lol
4 years actually. It only took PS5 3 years because the Switch still had nothing by then
@knuclear200x If I had a nickel every time you say "The Switch has nothing," I would be a millionaire.
So by that logic, the Nintendo switch would be the worst console of all time. The world is so backwards.
@ahmedhasan4966if i got a PENNY for every time i hear negative things about Nintendo I'd be a billionaire.
Seeing this makes me want to see a "Switch 2 Wishlist" video from Scott. I believe Nintendo hit a gold mind with the Switch, they just gotta build upon it and improve it.
I think that video will come when the Switch 2 gets revealed or gets a presentation.
Didn't appreciate it at first but i've warmed up to it over the years. I was just hoping for more... fun, at the start. Now there's enough good games and the experience is smooth enough that overall i'm fine with it beeing a generic Plattform for Nintendo's games
Maybe I'm alone in this but I actually love the joycon. Not only is there something novel about it in handheld mode, I had so many calming and chill gaming sessions using them split. When I was playing BoTW, Mario Odyssey, Let's Go Pikachu, I remember so many times just sitting with my arms in various relaxed positions feeling really freed by not having to sit hunched over a connected controller. Honestly I would've done it more if I didn't move my gaming setup out of the family living room and if they didn't start to drift...
(I moved to the privacy of my room. It an already terribly claustrophobic setup, so using separate joycon there wouldnt exactly be as freeing as in a comfortable chair in a wide open living room.)
Never seen anyone else mention playing with split joycons - it actually is really comfortable
Definitely not alone in that. The joycons are amazing. The versatility of them are insane: they have the functions of a wii u pro controller, two snes controllers, and wiimote and numchuk all in one. And they are somehow comfortable in all of those positions as well. If they didn't drift, they would easily be my favorite video game controllers of all time.
Shame they kind of became like the 3d feature on the 3ds. They're super cool and have some neat finctionality, but are largely ignored at the end of the system's life.
I like how the Joy Cons feel, but I also feel like the Switch controls have no identity. I'm constantly pressing the wrong buttons and messing up with them.
The ai generated slop in digital storefronts is a genuine problem
It’s wild how neither Nintendo, Xbox and Sony don’t do anything about it
Cannot wait to hear about Scott talk about switch 2
I know! Same! I keep checking both of his accounts to see what he thinks! lol.
I thought I was going crazy when my shop was running so damn slow, glad it’s a universal experience
18:55 to add on to that.. my right joycon cannot charge on the switch in the dock anymore.. not because of the joycon but because of the switch itself.. now I got a separate charging for 4 joycons but.. yeah
i always figured Scott's only problem with it was that its not the Wii U...
My least favorite part about the switch is the joy cons. I am also too cheap to buy a pro controller, so I just play my wii u because of how good that controller is.
The Switch OS is probably built on top of the 3DS OS where the web browser was a point of attack to get soft mods running on the 3DS. Probably never put a fully functioning web browser on the Switch as a way to discourage casual users from soft modding their Switch.
4:18 CAT!!! CAT! THERES A CAT!
😻
🐈
19:37 this is my new favorite scott the woz quote and I don't care what yall say
+1 on that.
The nintendo switch screen is so tiny, thats my only problem.
Wait... why is Link walking to the left on his own? Oh... right. There's also the joycon drift.
The screen size is fine but text is often way too small. Or if the text is fine on the screen like Pokemon Sword/Shield, it's too big on a large TV. Another issues is how soft the screen is requiring a glass screen protector to avoid dust from scratching it.
Time buy there overprice joycons 😂
18:25 idk what all of you are doing to your joycons but I’ve had my switch since launch and the the connection rail on the switch and it’s 1st joycons are fine, they don’t slide out (wiggle at most if you force it)
-The Joy-Con are too small, drift, and have sticks that wear away way too easily
-for how shoddy they are, Joy-Con should not be $80 to replace, especially because no improvements have ever been made to the manufacturing
-Friend codes still exist
-the complete inability to directly interact with Friends making the function nearly useless unless you knew them already and coordinated your adding of each other beforehand
-the sperate NSO app for voice chat that's compatible with like 5 games that nobody uses
-the fact that NSO is paid even though it has virtually no (and arguably worse) perks compared to the free Wii, 3DS, and Wii U experiences
-the fact that you need to pay a premium rate for what amounts to some N64/Sega Genesis games and DLC for games you're gonna buy anyway.
-Online play, especially with Smash Ultimate.
-the bloat of the library. Yeah a lot of games that would otherwise be trapped on the Wii U are ported so people can actually play them, but so many games aren't actually new and are just rereleases.
-many new, first-party games lack the charm/character that was typical of previous generations in ways I can't place my finger on. Sure, the Wii U/3DS era had this problem too, especially with Mario games, but I feel like it's more? Pervasive? A lot of games feel very by-the-numbers and "good enough". Princess Peach Showtime was a game I was looking forward to but ultimately had to skip out on because of how mediocre it was. I regret buying Nintendo Switch Sports. Kirby Star Allies is bland. People say the Mario Sports games are bad. Animal Crossing New Horizons is a shallow game made for Instagram posts and nothing else.
-I hate the Wii Sports fint being used in literally everything. Mario Party, Kirby, Pikmin, etc, all use that bland, generic font instead of previous games' fonts which had a lot of personality. Pikmin especially, goddamn. I get it's probably for accessibility, but like there's no option? No toggle?
-No Themes
-No media apps although this stings less than this would've 10 years ago
-The eShop is slow
-The system was underpowered when it game out and has only showed its age since. Any multiplatform releases are pretty much guaranteed to be greatly compromised on Switch, if a third party dev didn't skip out on Switch at all. I don't have a PC so I eventually bought a PS5 so I could play new releases like Street Fighter 6, Tekken 8, Metaphor: ReFantazio, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Persona 3 Reload, etc.
-Games run poorly. More often than not, games have performance issues and Switch simply cannot keep up with modern games. An upgrade is overdue, and it's insane how they refused to make the OLED any more powerful, even though it was a perfect opportunity to revise.
-etc
The cat feature was veryyyy appreciated ❤❤
It’s kinda wild how “scam-y” the shovel ware games look considering this is such a family friendly console
I need E-Shop music on the new switch please!!
imagine getting a switch for christmas and then this is the first video you see in your youtube recommended
1) Poor Shovelware Control
2) Game Store Slow as Hell
3) Absolutely no reason why apps like RUclips need games closed to run
4) Wi-Fi quality is trash
5) Bluetooth Quality is Trash
6) Buttons are too small
Set the wifi MTU to 1500, may use more power but better speeds.
The Switch probably does need games closed for RUclips. Or at least RUclips will run slower then it already does
7) Repairability is questionable
the screws have odd patterns and are rather soft. You can never touch them with a screwdriver, and still get them completely worn out over the years
@ I didn’t even think of that but true. I work on medical equipment so I have better stuff than their repair guys probably have, but the average joe using a Walmart kit would probably destroy that thing
@@juannaym8488 Crazy...!
Switch not getting Netflix makes sense because Netflix has nothing to watch
A fellow Netflix hater, I see.😏
Sony abandoned the PS Vita because there was nothing they could do to get customers.
Nintendo abandoned the Switch because there is nothing they can do to lose customers.
That mentality will bite Nintendo in the ass if they made the next switch cost $400 or $500
@@staringcorgi6475399 will be fine considered the inflation and switch oled already 349,but 499 is too damn high it will repeat 3ds situation and make Nintendo want to suicide.
Yea I hate the complacency
@@staringcorgi6475 399 is fine since switch oled is already 349 and the inflation,but 499 is absurd and it will repeat 3ds situation.
@@Kevin-i2b the majority of switch users buy the $300 or $200 edition though since they just want a thing to play games
My 3Ds held up for the past 14 years but my Switch already felt so broken in 2021 that on trips I'd rather take my 3Ds with me. The Switch 2 NEEDS to be more durable or it is a flop for me.
10:05 Oh okay, bro doesn't have F-Zero 99 installed.
I don't understand that a 20$ third-partycontroller that I have used since 2015 for my Steam games has never had issues, but the $70 Joy-Con from a billion dollar company that basically revolutionised the gaming since the 80s gets "Stick Drift" within a year. It's disgusting practice.
Nintendo needs to let old Japanese and American investors control how Nintendo works, and listen to fan's criticism. I feel Nintendo execs have this huge pride that they want everything to he very Nintendo, and don't want to evolve with the market in positive.
Integrate Discord, or a better voice chat. Stop charging for Online Play. Themes. Better apps. Allow for an Internet Browser.
I honestly play on my Nintendo for Pokèmon & Legend of Zelda... their is no other reason to play the Nintendo. Their is an argument to be made for entertaining party games, and indie platformer/adventure games, but I have those on my PC.
Two Scott videos in one night? It truly is a magical Christmas!
I will say objectively, as a fan of Nintendo's games, the Switch is a severely underpowered console with awful online that you still have to pay for, a terrible storefront and iffy at best controllers. I meant the portable thing is cool, but I think objectively it is not a very great console
True
That is not how objectively works
@Elfilinfanfr lol
Appreciate for the shout out... It is true that "Nintendo Switch Online" membership has nothing except cloud saving.... It is not enough...
this sounds so ominous 😭
What I love about the Switch:
- Great library of exclusives
- You can play a lot of your games on the go
- Large screen means you don’t have to slouch or squint
- HD Rumble haptics
- It takes up very little space when docked
- Tons of controllers you can use
- Impressive console ports during the Switch’s early years
What I don’t love about the Switch:
- The dreaded joy-con drift, and it’s something Nintendo has neglected to fix
- It’s heavier than your average handheld
- First-party titles are still expensive, where’s Nintendo Selects/Player’s Choice?
- NSO being a half-assed subscription with classic games being drip-fed instead of being readily available for purchase on the eShop
- Sluggish eShop UX
- Later releases are being held back by the Switch’s aging hardware
- Later first-party releases that weren’t Splatoon, Smash Bros., or Mario Kart had minimal updates, they really wasted ACNH’s potential…
Carby pfp spotted!
also yeah NSO is still very weak
Honestly most Nintendo exclusives went down in quality compared to previous entries. Zelda, animal crossing etc
I think the included joy-con Grp is also worth mentioning as an issue because it comes with the purchase.
Even after the LED revision came out it still cant be used to recharge.
This means if you do actually use it you're constantly removing joy-cons to charge.
That leads to additional avoidable cumbersome wear and tear to the point that you just buy a dedicated pro controller.
That in turn means that the included Joy-Con Grip is not really used at all in either scenario and is basically landfill trash.
I don't think the joy-con grip is that big of a deal to wearing out the rails connecting them repeatedly. The strap slide however, seems way too tight in spec and takes a lot of force to remove. I expect repeated use of the strap slides to destroy the controller.
I'm just so mad they never added themes for the menu, I modded my switch mainly because of that so now I have custom themes made by myself
It’s kind of funny how Scott’s entire brand is bitching about stuff he loves. I’m all for it!
For me aside of the lack of themes "which the 3DS did better" and the painfully slow Eshop and it's funky UI, the fact that most of their first games after the console debuted are still $60 is ludicrous to say the least. Sure, Nintendo doesn't see any problem with it since it sells like hotcakes on a Ihop but still it's ridiculous that the price hasn't seen any sort of drop since then and are still being sold at that price like they were brand new after all these years.
I can't accept the Switch as the best because online multiplayer is behind a paywall.
3DS is the best.
This is why I play on PC now. Having to pay monthly to play online, when I already pay for internet is totally bs. I miss out on a lot of exclusive games from the consoles, but oh well.
The 3ds had the definitive Home Screen design with folders and customizability also with the activity log
The refusal to allow us to cloud save *all* games is quite possibly the biggest travesty. People losing their saves when they pay for a service that’s suppose to stop that from happening…
Cheating? Don’t care. People cheating is better than people loosing their saves. If they care, get competent, hire people who know how to do this. They exist. Just make a real MMO out of Pokemon for the competitive market.
The amount of shovelware mobile henti garbage on the E-shop is insane, i stopped using it years ago.
get the moba pad M6 HD, it turns the switch into the most comfortable handheld you ever held. they cost less than the original joycons and have HAL magnetic Analogue sticks, no drift ever, and mechanical buttons.
HD rumble too!
@@mattBLACKpunk yeah and programmable buttons too
Once the cat entered the video it became many times better. We need more Scott's Cat the Woz
They absolutely take advantage of the “own a game, get a discount on another” game. That’s why you see so much “special edition” shovelware games.
Another fun fact about the play time is the fact it’s tied to the switch itself not the account. I got a second one once the se card slot broke in my first one and all the playtimes didn’t exist after I played on that new switch.
You can transfer the play data over, but it's complicated and I had to redo it all after getting an OLED since it didn't do it properly the first time
@@PikaPhantomVG i did do that for every game exept the few which couldn't (such as the pokemons) and my times were still incorrect.
We needed this. Switch gets too much glaze. No one talks about the awful UI and eshop etc.
I feel like people are constantly talking about the ways the switch fucked up? which is totally fair and valid especially when it comes to quality control on the hardware but. Scott isn't really saying anything too bold here.
@@audoodle9963 well i guess i just dont hear about it. Most of the switch opinions i hear are related to how much of a success it is and of course rumors. Hardly ever see constructive criticism other than that one time the whole joycon drift thing went viral.
What? Everyone talks about how bad the EShop and UI is. People just don’t care that much because the games are godly.
@@THEONETRUEOVERLORDtrue
@@RiqMoran Because (for me at least) it kinda pales in comparison to the releases of the Switch. Mario Odyssey, Breath of The Wild (Even though it originally released on the Wii U), Smash Bros Ultimate, Mario Wonder, Tears of The Kingdom, so many actual wonderful games that have come out on the Nintendo Switch. I acknowledge the flaws of the console, but it doesn't really bother me, because Nintendo releases genuinely good games, at least in my opinion. I just don't care, because I can still enjoy the games. I do agree with the fact that the eShop is definitely problematic though.
18:45 lmao I thought that issue was pretty uncommon for switches. The only difference is that I'm 95% sure i got it after the console was thrown against a wall
i hate that the switch 2 (presumably) has nearly the exact same design with the same designed joycons. no ergonomics at all. people say "if it aint broke, dont fix it." but idk this kinda broken.
If the system is indeed called "Nintendo Switch 2" then it's expected that it would look similar to the Switch.
@ahmedhasan4966 Yeah, the PS2 and PS1 are indistinguishable from eachother.
Wana bet its gona be even worse. 3ds and new 3ds for example. They removed side button that let you turn off internet. 2 probaly wont even have a memory card slot.
Honestly yeah, especially as it will probably take some time for high quality third party hall effect joycons to come out
@@Bullminator Well, at least you can turn it off from the menu. Still dumb that they removed the physical switch.
Also, putting the SD card slot under the backplate.
Something I have noticed with the folders is that I sorted all my physical games in folders from A-Z and I have 600+ games that I had added. Then one day, the most of them is gone from each folder (there is like around 200 left now) and noticed that the ones there is there is the one there have a tiny update or I just added. I did like to have my full library of physical games as icons on it, but..yea..that was strange. I know it can have 2000 icons, but why it does this, I have no idea...
Also why the hell did the Switch not have a proper diary system like the 3DS and Wii U? Would it really be that hard for the Switch to have a .txt file that keeps track of how much you've played something? Instead your play time is paused forever or straight up disappears if you play on more than one system...
Also don’t forget if you play more than like 15 games then the oldest games playtime on your profile will just disappear until you open them again. I LIKE having my games with 200+ hours at the top, like my chill Pacific (illusion magic) Legendary Survival Skyrim playthrough that took me forever and was a great time.
the cat was truely the most important part of the video