I know that it has a shorter battery life than the OLED plus the Switch 2 doesn’t even have an OLED screen by default. Also, the library of games exclusive to the Switch 2 isn’t much (they do have CP 2077, HW: AoI, DK: Bananza, MKW) & paid upgrades for both BoTW & TotK. Do you consider the Switch 2 worth it when you factor in shorter battery life, paid upgrades, 2 microSD card tiers (normal & express), expensive accessories & etc?
If you already have a Switch, there isn’t much point in buying the Switch 2. If you don’t have either, I would highly suggest looking at the Steam Deck, which has a significantly more vast library of great games and has the ability to play media and other things on the go that the Swtich 2 cannot.
Telling people to buy a Steam Deck used to make sense, but it doesn’t anymore when it’s twice the price of a Switch 2 (I say this as a Steam Deck fan).
Saving tons of money on game purchases easily makes up for that. Particularly since games that you have owned for decades just work, no repurchase required. Have you seen how expensive Nintendo games are? Even on sale they are extremely expensive.
That said, I do understand why the up-front cost can hurt.
Do first party games like the Mario ones ever go on sale?
A few years ago I went to the Nintendo NY store/museum and I chuckled when a mom asked the clerk “excuse do you have something on discount?” And she got “no madam here we do not do discounts”
At the same time, my friends and I lend our Switch games out to one another, which we don’t have the ability to do with Steam. I’m currently borrowing Star Fox and enjoying it, while friend A is borrowing my copy of Donkey Kong Bananza and friend B is borrowing Tears of the Kingdom. I bought maybe 2 Switch games last year, but played 10.
Before anyone mentions family sharing on Steam, we tried that, but Valve quickly caught on to the fact that we didn’t live in the same household and cut us off.
I agree with this sentiment. (me too fan)