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How the Switch is the perfect console
🕑 Added 2018-04-19 10:49:59 +0000 UTC Okay I should probably elaborate; the perfect console for me.My gaming habits have changed massively over the last couple of years. I treated myself to a PS4 in 2015, the first relatively new console I'd bought in years, and bought it with Shadow of Mordor, Alien: Isolation and Axiom Verge.
Funnily, I'd bought it just a week after P.T had been pulled from the downloads, which is a shame. But, with my relationship in its early days, I was playing big, long, open world RPGs, spending ages playing indies over and over and generally being a bum on the sofa in front of the TV with the partner and step-daughter (obviously not with Alien Isolation).
Then I got a Switch just before my baby daughter was born, managing to fit the last of my "free time" into Breath of the Wild. And now Baby is here, my gaming habits have changed immensely.
Whereas I used to sit and vegetate and go round and round in some games, now that my time is premium I game more efficiently, wherever I can.
Last night, I was sat on my balcony with my partner, both sipping wine and playing Mario Kart.
If I'm up from Baby being awake at night, then I'll have a quick rag on some Mario Odyssey finding moons before I go back to sleep.
If the step-dawts is watching some god-awful soap on Channel 4, then I'll speed-run Sonic Mania for the 17th time.
And if the nephews are over, then I can whack the Switch on the TV and we all play Mario Kart or Odyssey.
The step-dawts still plays the PS4 occasionally as well, mainly indie games like Snake Pass or Flower or, funnily enough, Mega Man Legacy Collection.
But, what makes the Switch so good for me is that it fits around my family so well, and I'm not really sacrificing as much gaming time as I would have anticipated with having a baby.
I regularly have discussions with my close friend that I don't invest the time into amazing games like Skyrim, Witcher 3 and Horizon Zero Dawn. I seem to claim that having a baby removes me from the possibility of being able to properly play them, but since owning the Switch and having Baby, it's actually made me own up to myself that maybe I just don't find RPGs entertaining enough to invest time into anyway, baby or not.
Zeldas, Metroids and GTAs will always remain exceptions, they're my comforts, I'll always fit them in, but recently my time has been settling on Nindies (Nintendo indies), and there's plenty of indies on the Switch now, and lots of digital collections.
Honestly, I couldn't have asked for a better video games console as a family man than the Nintendo Switch.
I can game anywhere, anytime, and hopefully with the rise of 3rd party support, anything.
