The Nintendo Switch it’s my favorite video game console. Perhaps always. Considering how I loved my Super Nintendo, PlayStation 2, and Xbox 360, that says something. The Nintendo Switch Lite is a good choice if you have other consoles and want something to travel with. Aside from being smaller and not being able to attach it to a TV, it’s also $100 cheaper than the standard Switch. But don’t buy it just for the savings if you want to play on a bigger screen at some point.
But given my current circumstances – a parent with limited time to do nothing, not working, sleeping, or caring for two cacodemons disguised as young children – there has never been a console better designed for a person like myself. And the console is pouring into the empty spaces of my busy life.
The era in that precise moment that I began to fantasize. About an utterly indulgent purchase That made nonsense. A second Nintendo Switch. A switch safe from the abuse of exuberant children. A switch would remain hidden in a few locked drawers in my bedroom.
I hosted this glorious dream for years, and when Nintendo announced the Switch Lite – a smaller, cheaper (by $100) version of the original – I thought, this is my chance. That is the perfect excuse—one brand-new updated version of my favorite console.
So I bought it. One brand new Switch Lite, a new and sparkling turquoise number. I headed home from the shop with a smile on my face. It’s a skip in my step. My secret Switch is forever protected from dirty fingerprints and rogue scratches. Perfection.
And it was. My Nintendo Switch Lite was a dream for the first months or two. I kept it safe from dirty and careless little hands; I played it at night, on the bus.
But my Nintendo Switch Lite remains mostly unplayed almost two years after buying it. I barely touch it, and, to be honest, I regret buying it.
It is not necessarily the console itself or the games. Everything is alright. It’s the functionality – what Nintendo Switch Lite candies And I can not do in than its older, larger one, brother.
I don’t necessarily regret buying a Switch more; I wish I had purchased the original Switch. Now that the OLED switch is in the voyage, I regret not waiting for an update.
My reasoning back was pretty simple then. I had one regular Nintendo Switch, a home Switch for children. Portable if need be, but mostly played on the TV e in the house. Switch Lite: a pure handheld console that cannot connect to the TV like the original — would be with I times. It didn’t happen to need to be connected to the TV, so why pay more? For the privilege?
Now that I have owned and played both versions of the Nintendo Switch, on the other hand, I’m here to tell you: should they have paid extra for the big lad? Months down the track, I can’t think of a single circumstance in which I would recommend Nintendo Switch Lite over the original Nintendo Switch.
I miss the bigger screen. I miss being able to give the console a facelift by adding several colorful controllers. I miss having the option to dock my Switch e-play on a much bigger TV screen once my kids sleep safely.
I didn’t think I would miss its feature, but I was wrong. It’s easy to forget how much better games like I Breathe of the Wild and Animal Crossing look and feel on a big screen. The fact these games can be played in portable mode is a modern miracle, but playing on the television is stopped for most, the ideal way to play.
Is Switch Lite better for children? Not exactly. That’s the main discussion for the existence of the Switch Lite, but it doesn’t hold up. Children like to play video games on TV as much as adults. Of course, the added cost is a problem, but paying $100 more is worth it.
The original Nintendo Switch does everything the Lite can do with the added benefit of having a bigger screen in portable mode. The Switch Lite, in comparison, is compromised. It’s cheaper, of course. But not cheap enough to warrant the purchase over the original.
Simply put, Switch Lite erases what made the original like this unique. Here because, instead of pouring into convenient spaces of my busy schedule, my Switch Lite remains unloved and unplayed. A secret Switch in a locked drawer. Safe from scratches, sure, but isn’t that it? My first Nintendo Switch earned its battle scars through hundreds of hours of play. My Nintendo Switch Lite, on the other hand, is collecting dust.
