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The launch of Nintendo Switch Lite should not surprise anyone. If you want to know when Nintendo is going to launch a review of its latest console , you just have to look at how much the next great Pokémon game will be released.

On this occasion, Pokémon Sword and Shield bring under their arm a more portable and lighter and cheaper and limited version of Nintendo Switch, that console that almost seems to show the phenomenon that was the Wii.

Switch Lite limits the concept of the original Switch: from being a portable console with two controls that could be separated to play with someone, but that can also be connected to a TV through a base; This console is simply portable: neither the controls are separated nor connected to the TV .

This means that games like Ring Fit Adventure will be incompatible with Switch Lite , but in return, the console is smaller, has more autonomy time and is somewhat cheaper.

Only portable, is it a problem?

The Switch with its original design, but with improved battery (announced next to the Lite) can currently be found around 300 euros, but the Switch Lite will cost around 200 when it launches tomorrow, Friday, September 20. This does not include games or the microSD memory that you probably need to install games (the console brings only 32GB internal), but that said: it is 'cheaper'.

On the only day I could spend with her, my impressions could not be simpler: I do not find it more uncomfortable despite being smaller , the size is quite next to the original, the touch is fantastic (like plastic the Joy-Con, it has some texture) and, as I usually play in portable mode almost always, I still haven't missed being able to play on TV .

Yes I missed a little more quality on the buttons . It is the first thing I noticed as soon as I played with her, the feeling of pads, less firm button and that does not return the pulsation as much as the Joy-con of the original Switch.

It is a pity that this is so, because the buttons are good, but they are not as good as those of other Nintendo consoles , and not as good as those of the Switch. And this also implies the crosshead, which has returned after becoming four separate buttons in the original, but which is not as, as good as I would like.

The problem in part is that Nintendo has been making amazing buttons for decades, the best in the industry. Nobody has done cross-pieces like this company and they almost don't do it, so bumping into something below their usual quality clashes quite a bit. It is as if a new Samsung phone, suddenly, did not have the best screen on the market.

The buttons could be better

Even so, I quickly got used to the feeling and playing Link's Awakening with her has not been a problem. Everything responded properly. Perhaps I have accidentally pressed the buttons ZL and ZR, the triggers on the back, because they are activated with less force than those of the original Switch and I am perhaps used to support my fingers there more than I should, but this is a matter of spend more time with the console, not a defect of it .

With Celeste, a video game that demands a lot of precision, I was able to overcome a level with my usual clumsiness. Mine, not the console, because the controls and the response of the character were identical to those of the other console .

Playing a fighting game is still a problem, because the analog stick is not designed for it and the crosshead is in the lower part of the control, so you take the console a little strangely and after a while your hand hurts.

Hand pains, by the way, similar to Switch. I have a very big one and, after two hours of uninterrupted play, it hurts a little . Nothing that does not happen playing with a break in between or stopping a little when the discomfort arises. It also happened to me with Nintendo 3DS, with Nintendo DS and with all Nintendo laptops since I was an adult. I have troll hands, what am I going to do. For a child or an adult with human hands, I don't think the problem is so big.

Smaller can be good

A point where this console I think wins the original is on the screen. I know, it's smaller (5.5 inches in 16: 9 versus 6.2 in the same format), but since it has the same resolution, it almost seems that the games look better . This has always been a problem, but on the contrary, that the games look worse, on Nintendo consoles: the Nintendo 3DS XL had larger screens, but with the same resolution, so that the sawtooth of the games looked even more. The opposite happens here.

To this we should add that the battery lasts longer . It is not something that has been able to corroborate very scientifically in just 24 hours with the video game console, but with the original launch Switch next to it and playing with my partner, it lowered its battery more by 5% in Mario Kart 8 than it did the Switch Lite in which I played.

The secondary console problem

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Having two or more switches is a problem. You can use your same Nintendo account on all the consoles you want, but you must know that you will always have a main console and secondary ones with significant limitations in the digital games you own.

These limitations are serious and make it impossible to have two consoles at full capacity. Although you can play your games on a secondary Switch, and even another person with your account can play them on your main console while you do it on it; If you do not have an Internet connection in this secondary console, you will not be able to access digital games or play them without an Internet connection.

Nintendo needs to verify with its servers that it is you who plays and that you are not scamming them, so if you have two switches, you leave the main one at home and take the high school trip ... Well you can not play digital games in the airplane. Only those in your cartridge.

In turn, if your partner or your children or your nephews play on your main console with their own Nintendo account, they will not be able to do that in the secondary console. The digital games of the main console can only be accessed from the account of the owner of those games.

If you consider having two Switch consoles to play and you usually share them with others, you will have to consider playing the games only in physical format.

Nintendo's promise is that the Switch Lite can reach 9 hours of autonomy , being more likely to stay in about 5 hours if you play Super Mario Odyssey or games with graphics like that. In contrast, the original arrived at 6 o'clock, although it is normal for it to last 3 short times. I can't assure it will be like this because my test time

Still, the promise of a better battery should not fool anyone. It is possible that Nintendo announces another more powerful Switch and with better screen for next year or for early 2021, which is when I anticipate that the new Zelda will be launched. If for some reason you are tired of your original console and would like a better version, it will be your turn to wait.

Switch Lite, after all, is not an improved version of the Lite. It is a limited version in an aspect that for many has become an option and whose objective is to reach those who do not want to spend so much money or prefer to play on a portable console. She is the heiress of Nintendo 3DS, come on.

It is still the best console

Nintendo hit the target with the concept of the Switch . We have already spoken more than once that the lateral thinking of the Japanese company is what keeps it up to or ahead of its competitors, and Switch is a perfect example: it is a Game Boy, but also a Super Nintendo.

Ironically, everyone I know and who plays on Switch usually barely connects it to TV. I usually do it when I have it available, but when my partner watches something on TV and I want to play, instead of going to another TV to connect the PlayStation or Xbox, 75% of the time I stay on the couch next to me of her playing Switch.

Switch Lite is designed a bit for this dynamic, but Nintendo always thinks of children and knows that this console is a perfect heiress of the Nintendo 3DS and that it will be the machine to play Pokémon from the kid, as well as the console in which many people will also play Animal Crossing New Horizons when it launches in March.

If I wanted to be bad, I would say that Switch Lite is half Switch because it fulfills half of its function. But in reality, this console complies with what a high percentage of users asks : play lying on the couch to something that is handled a hundred times better than an iPad or a mobile and that has games that you know at the end, be a Mario Kart, a beautiful indie or The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

In my humble opinion, as a concept, Switch is the best console of the moment , which does not necessarily have the best games. It does not have titles like Red Dead Redemption 2 or Call of Duty: Modern Warfare because it lacks power, but to be able to play games on the sofa that previously required a TV to play, it seems to me a winning concept. Obviously, if you want to do both, you need the most expensive Switch, but if not, the Switch Lite will serve you exactly the same. By the way, in yellow it is BEAUTIFUL .

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