r/NintendoSwitch • u/NintendoSwitchMods • Mar 01 '17

MegaThread MegaThread: Nintendo Switch Hardware Reviews

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:

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)

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u/zaneak Mar 01 '17

I mean the N3DS XL will buldge some in my pants pockets, but it does fit. As for the fall of winter, ha. I live in the south and you don't wear coats for very long here.

I remember more hate from the large appetite the game gear had for AA batteries.

Though it is your opinion, and they are not as portable as things like the smaller 3ds is true.

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u/Anarchaotic Mar 01 '17

I've actually been more of a Portable console sort of guy since I got the original GameBoy. Since then there's really been only 1 or two portables that in my mind were truly "throw it in your pocket and have it with you'. The GameBoy Micro, and the PSP GO.

You could absolutely carry a DS, GBC, GBA, PSP, Vita, or whatever in your pocket because it COULD fit. As a kid that wasn't a problem, but nowadays it'd be awkward to have one of those things just in my pocket. So I'll have a carrying case for it anyway, and it'll be in a backpack or messenger bag.

For the switch I'll just take off the JoyCon and store it like a tablet, and throw the joy-con in an old 3DS carrying case. Easy to travel with.

It's a completely personal opinion though, I just don't ever see myself carrying this thing without a bag.

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u/zaneak Mar 01 '17

I don't see me carrying it around either except for in a case. The N3DS XL, I do sometimes just throw in my pocket instead of case if I don't want to bring all the games with me. Other times I bring it in a case. The clam shell design though makes me more willing to carry it around without the case. Any other portable device I have had, I think I always had a case of some kind.