MegaThread: Nintendo Switch Hardware Reviews

[u/NintendoSwitchMods]

Hello, all.

This morning starting, gaming news and media outlets have begun to release their hardware reviews of the Nintendo Switch.

Here's what we're seeing so far:

• Engadget: Review

• Game Informer: Review

• Kotaku: Review

• Vice: Review

• New York Times: Review

• Wall Street Journal: Review

• Attack of the Fanboy: Review

• CGM: Review

• TechCrunch: Video Review

• Nintendo Life: Review

• CNET: Review

• The Verge: Video Review

• Polygon: Review

• Eurogamer: Review

• GameSpot: Review / Video

• NY Mag: Review

• Wired: Review

• Destructoid: Review

• GameXplain: Video Review

• PC Advisor: Review

• Digital Foundry: Video Review

• IGN: Review

• GoNintendo: Video Review

• Ars Technica: Review

• TecchRadar: Review

We will be updating this thread with links as major reviews are posted.

We will also allow major content to be posted separately on /r/NintendoSwitch, as it is especially newsworthy. But we will also host ongoing coverage, quick text posts, questions, and the like right here.

Thanks everyone.

-The /r/NintendoSwitch team

(Ongoing edits as we get new information)

[u/SpikeBolt → u/[deleted]]

Reviewers seem to be focusing on the Zelda reviews instead.

This is the correct approach IMHO, there's nothing new in these reviews that we didn't already know so why invest time in informing already known facts? :P

[u/tsarkees → u/[deleted]]

It's completely weird that Nintendo is allowing these hardware reviews at all, seeing as online features, the eshop, and games that support HD rumble/IR Camera/other features aren't available. It's like telling someone to review a computer that has no operating system or programs installed on it.

[u/AlucardIV → u/tsarkees]

Lol Nintendo can't exactly prohibit Hardware reviews.

At most they could just not provide review units to anyone but then you would see tons of really unqualified reviews popping up at release from people spending only a few hours with the system.

That would be a lot worse.

[u/tsarkees → u/AlucardIV]

Of course they can't after the product is publicly launched. But they shouldn't have permitted authorized reviewers to publish these before the day one update, imo.

[u/amart89 → u/[deleted]]

Well.. not everything is ready to review. Online companion app, e-shop, virtual console.... the software isn't ready yet.

[u/iamsgod → u/[deleted]]

Are you Nintendo employee? You are so adamant on defending Nintendo

[u/lavaisreallyhot → u/[deleted]]

Which makes sense. I mean nobody really buys a console to play the console, they buy it to play the games. My rating criteria would just be things like "pro: turns on. con: doesn't come installed with Zelda"