 Hey everyone, I am Nathaniel Rumpeljantz your editor-in-chief your everything at Nintendo Prime and Today, I'm kind of doing a little bit of an off-the-cuff video because it's been a couple days since we've had a video We've been doing a lot of live streaming this past week lots of Breath of the Wild We also had an additional stream earlier today From 5j gaming over on our twitch channel. We'll put a link down in the description to our twitch channel for those Who would like to catch all the additional streams that we do also broadcast here on YouTube? So I just want to talk about the switch and in particular just give you some of my Impressions now we do a podcast that will be hopefully recording tomorrow But we didn't have a podcast this past week because Eric and I wanted to spend a ton of time with the switch So just to prove to you that I even have the dang thing which I shouldn't have to after all the live streams Here it is. There's the switch As you can see I have the tube blue joy counter controllers Well, that's not everything obviously have the grip and the dock and all that great stuff I have the pro controller got an extensive experience playing in dock mode pro controller and I have More than you know, it says it'll play in Zelda, but I have more than just Zelda on this system Okay, day one. I bought a Zelda. I also had one to switch Got snipper clips the next day and I also have just dance 2017 Mostly because I wanted to test out more accuracy with the motion controls plus just dance is just a fun game I like dancing. It's kind of one of the ways I work out and I I'm pretty impressed to be honest. I know some people have had issues As an example, I know that some people have had the dock scratch their screen And it does appear that the screen itself is plastic With an LCD underneath it so instead of having a glass cover over the LCD panel, it's actually plastic Which means that a hardness of two or whatever it scratches, which is very easy to scratch It means you could scratch it with your fingernail It can obviously scratch with the plastic on the dock That is why I have a glass. I don't know if you can tell I have a glass screen protector on my switch And that's one reason why because it doesn't have glass. It's plastic So I wanted a piece of glass over it Besides that issue. I have not had the joycon desyncing issues I do have two sets of joycon So I want to do like a test later where I go over You know are one set of joycons better than the other like the set that came with the system I got the black joy cons or I'm sorry the gray joy cons Are they better than the separate set I got with the blue joy cons? There's their signal differences in the exact same situation whether it be in my office or on a TV in another room Or I'm away from you know in my office. I have tons of electronics, but in other rooms. I don't So just kind of gauging that and seeing if their signal interference closer to the router further away from the router, etc But I'm very impressed by this system Not just because of Breath of the Wild obviously Breath of the Wild is what it is We are working on a review of Breath of the Wild now I can't tell you when this review is actually going to come because Breath of the Wild is a game. I think is best played Without rushing your way through it, right? So even if we had gotten a review copy of the game, which we did our copy of Breath of the Wild is fully purchased Special edition right here fully purchased out of my own pocket It it's something that I want to take some time with I have an idea of what the score is going to be but Again scores are not the only way you should really judge a game Context matters and right now I want to get full context of this game full disclosure I have not even beaten the full story mode yet. I spent a ton of time exploring. I'm a couple dungeons in got some nice stuff I can also tell you that our review Isn't going to be concerning itself with spoilers So that means there might be spoilers in the review. I can't tell you for sure. I've only written part of it I'm not making a conscious effort to include spoilers But I'm not going to make a conscious effort to leave them out I know a lot of other review outlets have gone through the way to make sure there were no spoilers in it But since my review is coming much later after the game comes out might be a month after I feel like we've kind of reached a point where everything's gonna be known about the game anyways So there's no point for me to concern myself with spoilers So I will obviously put a proper warning in the literal review if that comes to pass And it's gonna be a video review and it's gonna be technically the very first video review we've ever done at Nintendo Prime one of the very first reviews we've ever done and There's gonna be also an editorial version of this review on the website at Nintendo prime net So you can obviously go read it if you don't have time to watch it But that's not all we're gonna be reviewing As I said, I have snipper clips. I want to get a video review in for that The only reason that hasn't happened yet is because my fine primary focus is breath of the wild now getting back to the switch itself You see Obviously, I played a lot of breath of the wild place. I'm just dance played one two switch played snipper clips played it in a variety of situations All right, I've done live streams. I've done just it docked playing on my TV I have taken it to my other job where I'm an after-school teacher and played one two switch and just dance And snipper clips with a whole group of people so I kind of can I get the idea of what it's like in a party situation? I got an idea what it's like to play with children be that my own children or children at my work And obviously I've gotten you know snipper clips I actually got to play for the first time with my girlfriend and Got to see what it's like in a couple situation You know is it a kind of game that as couples you want to play Is one to switch a kind of game that you really want to have at a party or is it something that you just kind of Want to do casually on the side We'll have a review of all four of those games be a just dance 2017 Want to switch snipper clips and breath of the wild those are what what we have coming up in the next month or two for reviews But the switch itself is a very impressive system in that It doesn't really over promise what it's supposed to do. It just does it and does it well from my perspective now I will say that If you buy the switch and you do not buy a pro controller, you're gonna think the controls are just fine You know, I personally get a little small for my hands, but overall I've had no problem if I take off this joycon I have had no problems playing in sideways. Well, you know using the shoulder buttons up here when I slide on I'll do it right now When I slide on one of these bad boys I Have had Not that much of an issue and some people made a big issue about taking these off Now I'm having an issue putting it out. Just gotta line it up right all right So some people have had issues with taking these off. I haven't such to give you an example unlock it Hold it like this against my body press the button pull It really wasn't that hard And I don't want and I don't want to be like oh over time. It's gotten easier It actually has just been that easy for me the whole time I think the reason that taking these off has become like this issue is because they're small and Unlike when you take it off the switch which does feel smoother The difference taking it off the switch is that you have this giant unit you're holding on to That's a lot more sturdy when you pull it off Okay, when you put it on To these It's hard when you unlock it and you go to pull it's hard because there's not a lot of heft here There's not a lot of in like angles like when you notice when you pull it off the switch. Where am I holding? I'm holding over here. I'm not holding right up next to the joy con So I think that's where the difficulty came from. That's why I have found put it against the body Well and pull up that I mean, it's not that difficult So you just kind of know that leverage that you have when you have it with the system that you don't otherwise So I don't actually think there's a design flaw with these at all I will say putting these on does make the controller more comfortable What be it in one-two switch? With the milking game be it playing sideways like I actually thought that this was gonna be a cramped kind of setup And it looks cramped, but after doing it for several hours at a time It's not bad I'm actually surprised at how playable this setup really is. I have had literally no issue playing this way for hours at a time So it might look weird. It might feel weird even without you know, even if you take this off Oh, that's locked. See you gotta make sure it's unlocked first Drop the joy con All right, so Even in even like this which I made sure I also did especially with snipper clips played for a few hours this way Never had my hand hurt never felt cramped. It was surprisingly. It's just it's just so awkward It feels awkward holding it, but it never actually Like felt weird over time if that makes sense Um Switch isn't perfect. I'll never pretend that any system is perfect no matter how big a fan of it I am I can safely tell you that Nintendo switch is probably my favorite Nintendo system Probably since maybe the GameCube Arguably since the Super Nintendo and I say that because it's simple. It just works You put in a game cartridge and you get to play the game. There's no installs. There's no downloading There's no wait time load times are really really fast I have two games digitally two games physically physically. I breathed a while physical and want you to switch physical I'll add snipper clips and just dance Both digital. No, I do not have an SD card. So You know, I'm probably have to look into an SD card if I want to do some more digital games but overall I've been really really impressed with the system the UI is very slick and I don't really have a lot of complaints outside of the fact that the I Online's functionality isn't fully there. It's also really weird that the The play activity log is really really weird So I had some people tell me that the play activity log I'll like we even reported it unlocks after a week. Well on my system I first played Breath of the Wild eight days ago as of this recording and there's no play time So I don't really know what you have to do to unlock that play time and several people have said it just showed up They didn't do anything. There's no setting for it. So I'm a little confused I also that like it is supposed to have your last 20 games I think that's even what it says here and the information says. Yes, it'll display up to 20 titles Okay, notice how on my list. I don't know how well this shows up in camera I have Breath of the Wild just dance snipper clips. Where's one to switch? I just played it yesterday so There's little issues like that all throughout the system or like the play activity log doesn't seem to be perfect Which is why you might notice I still have the parental thing on because I'm tracking my play hours through that So it's just a lot of a lot of little things but in general everything is really snappy I know some people are disappointed that it doesn't have like the cool menu music like on Wii and Wii U and DS and 3DS I don't really care. I don't think I ever bought those systems thinking man I should have some sick menu music. It's not really my cup of tea I just want to get the games as fast as I can right now. This is probably the fastest I've gotten the games Maybe since the Super Nintendo era. I say that because the NES era you always had a blow in the cartridge Everyone knows the pain of that if you grew up in the 80s So yeah, it's I'm I'm pretty thrilled overall with this system I don't have a lot a lot of negatives to say about it It has been fantastic playing in all figure configurations be it in table mode You know with the kickstand out. I will say the kickstand is a little bit You kind of have a little bit of a fingernail to get it out But I popped it off a couple times it snaps right back on super easy I had no issue playing a tabletop mode no issue playing the joycon sideways the screen quality Seems for up to snuff like if you didn't tell me it was a 720p screen I probably wouldn't know that it's 720p over here. I have an iPhone 6s plus This is what I do a lot of my recording with and it's like I think it's a 1080p screen Maybe it's a 4k screen because it records in 4k. I don't know off the top my head But I know it's higher than 720 and honestly like when I put them side by side. I couldn't tell you the difference to be honest That's what's so amazing about the screen. It's definitely a high-quality screen even with it being a plastic Plastic film they put over the top instead of glass obviously that was a cost-saving measure And maybe that's why people are experiencing scratches in the dock Then obviously I've been experienced because I've had to cover on it since day one first was I first I had a plastic film screen from Hori, which even the they're cheap one and the professional one They're both terrible. Just just go on Amazon get an unofficial Glass tempered glass one. That's what I did and even with it not being fully stuck down in this corner because I think there's a piece of dust or something. I can't remember Feels fantastic feels just like my phone. I'm pretty happy with it. So What I want to know is your guys's reaction to the switch Do you own one if you do do you have any concerns other if you run into issues? Have you has your left joycon, you know, I haven't taken that off here yet Is that left joycon desynced for you? And what have you bought? You know, you know, I obviously got the special edition in my one-two switch Extra extra joycons and straps and all this stuff. I'm curious, you know, what are your guys's reaction to the switch because? I've had a wholly positive experience and I'm actually curious for anyone who's had a negative experience Because I want to have a conversation I want to open the floor up come back to this in a new video where I go over some of the concerns some people have Or some issues or maybe you have some testing you guys want me to do with the switch Maybe you want me to do distance testing with the left joycon. Uh, just let me know in the comments below What you would like to know about the switch if I didn't go over it or what concerns you have or what issues you've had With your own switch Otherwise, thanks for tuning in to the Nintendo Prime. Hope you enjoyed this quick video. Have a good day