Nintendo switch review in Spanish after a month of use (analysis)

This is one of the biggest fronts of action for Nintendo, since the loss of external support was one of the biggest causes of the failure in sales of Wii U. Since the consoles involve an initial investment and do not have the other uses such as the PC, having opted for a console without games is a nightmare. We can't predict what the future of gaming will be on the Switch, but we can analyze the current offer and what has been said first hand about the support of external companies.

First-party games, developed by Nintendo

Currently, of the 26 games available, only three of them have been developed by Nintendo. - What? Don't they support their own console? ”“ It doesn't. Reggie Fils-Aimé (president and chief operating officer of Nintendo of America, the American division that is almost as important as the Japanese one) has explained on several occasions the route plan of the Japanese company for games.

Unlike the one taken on Wii U, in which all their own games went on sale at the first moment, with the Switch they want to go releasing them one by one. The previous plan caused users to have to choose between several games they wanted, and it took Nintendo a year to get new games ready to bring its console to life. By then sales had dropped and third-party developers abandoned the ship for other platforms with a brighter future.

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The strategy on Nintendo Switch, as we see, is to develop your own games in the same way but planning releases every few months. In this way, at all times we will have a first-party title to wait in a short period of time (and if not, in a couple of months another one of yours or of third parties that perhaps we are interested in).

Third-party games, from other developers

There have been news and headlines about external support for the Switch, and it deserves it: Without external titles, the console might not succeed for comparisons to its predecessor. But these news have often been taken out of context or seeing the ones that make the headlines, we cannot make an image that approaches objectively. Is there really external interest in getting back on the development bandwagon with Nintendo?

The only thing we can take as true are confirmed games. Companies often buy development kits for new consoles and test them to see what they are going to find in terms of performance possibilities, cost and time if they decide to bring one of their games to the console. In this process, some companies decide that the platform is not suitable for their games, or some games do not have the resources to take to all the consoles with which the studio works and must choose. Therefore, you have to look at what games are being ported to Nintendo Switch at all times and not blindly trust that they may be testing. For now (end of the first month after launch), the list of confirmed games includes developers like Bethesda, Ubisoft, EA Games, Activision, Sega, Square Enix, Bandai Namco… It's a good start but we need to hear more names when sales rise. the flight.

After reviewing the support that can be confirmed, there is speculation. Various companies have shown interest in the Nintendo Switch and give some hint of its tests, but prefer to remain discreet until they make a final decision on the first games they carry. This is the case, for example, from From Software, which said in December to have Dark Souls 3 running on the Switch at a level that satisfies them. Also Ubisoft, which has already launched Just Dance 2017 on the console, is waiting (and currently surveying) for the success and consumer concerns of the console to announce more titles on it, including Rayman Legends .

Other developers have commented that they will not support the console at the moment, especially those whose games base much of their experience on a graphic level as high as possible. Some visual concessions must be made to play properly on the handheld console, and while many give up the small graphic downgrade for being able to enjoy a full-fledged game anytime, anywhere, others are unwilling to do so. This is the case of a developer of Respawn, who claimed to have no intention of porting Titanfall 2 to Nintendo Switch.

Is the Nintendo Switch powerful or is it outdated?

Like all consoles, a debate opens that seems to go from one extreme to the other: sometimes you point us to great limitations, while other times we see gaming experiences very on par with other current platforms.

As with PS4 (and Pro) and Xbox One, the quality of each game depends more on how much effort (and money) the developer spends optimizing their game for each platform. To see examples of good and bad development (and by the way learn a lot along the way), a pass on the English YouTube channel Digital Foundry will show us very clear comparisons of video games on different platforms and patches.

This is true for all consoles, but the hardware and firmware of the console will give you insufficient to enough room for ports to run. On the Nintendo Switch it seems that we will have to pay attention to how much love each studio dedicates to the console. We see that the port of Fast RMX greatly improves that of Wii U, pointing to great potential, while that of Dragon Quest Heroes 2 shows that they have wanted to bring the graphics closer to those of PS4 but in battles it balances at about 20fps that are very confusing the match.

Is it powerful or not? Looking at the titles that have already come out it seems that it can support the game of any studio that takes it seriously, but it can be problematic if it is not.

Final words and conclusion about Nintendo Switch

There is debate between whether Nintendo has been avid betting its main chips on the Nintendo Switch or whether looking for a conventional gaming experience makes them lose that creative trick.

We think that the Nintendo Switch brings together the positive aspects of portable consoles, desktop consoles and motion controls. When Nintendo has done its homework in a few months , solving all the software and hardware problems that appear in the output of a console, Nintendo Switch will be a very complete main or complementary console.

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Remind you that the Nintendo Switch incorporates the powerful Nvidia Tegra X1 processor that Nvidia Shield TV 2017 left such a good feeling for us. If the video game companies dare to launch the main titles for them: NBA 2K, Fifa, Doom, Battlefield or Call Of Duty it could become the definitive console. Basically we would endría the advantage of all the games of nintendo and the most powerful at our disposal.

Although we currently have 25 titles available , more will appear in the coming months. But fully recommended for their first acquisition are Zelda Breath of the Wild, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Just Dance 2017.

We believe that there are two key improvements at this time. A new version with a storage greater than 32 GB, since although it only occupies 6 GB, the operating system will soon fall short. And the second and almost more important, is better autonomy… either with a larger battery or official external batteries by Nintendo.

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Currently we can buy in online and physical stores for a price of approximately 320 euros. We believe that it is not the most attractive price for the end customer, considering that you must purchase a separate game to be able to enjoy it (it already costs 400 euros). But it is worth spending every euro on it.

ADVANTAGE	DISADVANTAGES
+ Portability and TV mode	- Fair battery in demanding games
+ Screen quality	- Ergonomics of Joy-con decoupled compromised
+ Option to control movements without forcing it like on Wii	- Catalog confirmed even discreet
+ Catalog of games that promises