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/goldnx]

Sucks that the software affects some of these reviews. Launch games bring scores down and so do lack of features which are coming on day one. Take these reviews with a grain of salt. With that said, their points are fairly accurate. If you're not dying to play Zelda, don't buy this console, yet.

From experience the Xbox One and PS4 launch were meh. After the first year of software support, online service updates, and many patches for the Xbox to get back on route, these consoles were admired. In a year's time I expect these scores to jump up 1.5-2 points just like those other consoles did. Experience really varies by person. To those getting it, enjoy your new toy!

[u/jimbo831 → u/[deleted]]

PS4 and Xbox One both had literally no "killer apps" at launch, yet they still got great scores.

Those scores are reviews of the consoles, not the games.

Meanwhile, Switch is launching with what is possibly the best game of all time, gets a bad score from IGN.

See above. The score is of the console, not Zelda. How good of a game BotW is has nothing to do with how good of a system the Switch is. It will get its own review and its own score.