why i regret buying my Switch 2 - 1 week later Review

Hello and welcome back to a new video.

So I've been using my Switch 2 for about a

few weeks now since I bought it, and I

have some things to say about whether I

regret buying it or not, whether the

purchase was justified, do I feel like

returning it or keeping it, and is it any

good.

So first of all, I just want to say that

it does feel very nice in the hand.

My favorite thing to do with it is

probably hold it like this and detach the

magnetically attaching Joy-Cons, which

have a very satisfying click.

It is a perfectly balanced and

well-crafted slim design.

So if you're not a fan of those bulky

Windows handheld devices like the ROG Ally

and the Steam Deck, those are very chunky

devices.

So it has the same footprint as those

chunky devices, but it is very slim.

Look at this,

extremely slim and nice to hold.

So it is quite well designed in my

opinion.

The problem with this device is that the

battery life is a little bit

disappointing.

So with the

With the previous Switches, I was able to

easily get 3 to 5 hours of gameplay on it,

maybe even more if it's a lower demanding

game.

But playing Mario Kart World on this, I

can only crank out maybe 2 hours, maybe 2

and a half hours.

So usually what I do is I will have lunch,

and then after lunch I will play some

Mario Kart World.

And usually I can only play for 2 hours

tops before it says battery low, I have to

start charging it, and that's basically

when my gaming session comes to an end.

So things I don't like about this device

is it takes too long to start up.

I mean, not from being off onto on, I mean

from being standby, on standby to wanting

to play it.

So first of all, you got— you can't press

any button, look.

So pressing any button doesn't do

anything.

You can press all the buttons on this,

nothing happens.

You gotta press the home button.

Yeah, I think I'll press the home button

Or you've got to press the power button at

the top to activate the screen.

So once you've pressed the home button,

you now have to tap a button to continue

like this,

but it can't be the touchscreen.

Or— oh yeah, you can press— yeah, you can

press the home button in the center of the

screen like that to unlock it.

Or you press that and then you can press

any button like that.

It just— it takes ages.

It's so irritating to unlock this device.

I don't know why they've made it so

irritating to open.

I just, you know, I just want to jump into

the game right now.

I'm like, come on, come on, open.

Nothing happens.

Look,

so I press that,

nothing.

I'm gonna press it again.

Okay, now you gotta press a button 3

times, but there's like a delay between—

there's a delay between pressing the home

button.

Come on.

There, there's like a weird delay between

pressing the home button and pressing any

button 3 times.

I don't understand why you have to press

any button 3 times.

It's just a really frustrating feature of

the Switch, and it makes it annoying

turning it on.

The other annoying thing is every time you

do anything, like you want to go on to the

shop or you want to go on to something,

you always got to choose your profile.

Like, it will keep asking me who is using

it, and it's the only one there.

Look,

there's only one profile.

I don't know why it keeps asking me to

choose which one.

Obviously I'm going to choose that one.

So it does get a bit frustrating that

every time you want to do something like

go on to the online store, oh, now I've

got to choose my username again.

Or open a game, I've got to choose my

username again.

It's really irritating.

Also, the position of the right thumbstick

is kind of awkward.

So when you're playing the game where you

need to move the camera around with the

thumbstick because you're holding it like

that, aren't you?

So your thumb naturally rests where these

buttons are, which is great, but then if

you want to hold down the thumbstick, now

you've got to move your thumb down in this

weird awkward angle like that,

and it feels really uncomfortable.

So what you do is you have to shuffle your

hand down a bit and then hold it kind of

like this.

So what you end up doing is this.

Oh my God, I can't.

Okay, so what you end up doing is this.

So you're holding it like that

comfortably, but then now you want to move

the camera down like that, so it feels

really uncomfortable with the thumbstick

there.

So then what you have to do is you have to

hold it like that so your right hand is

slightly lower than the other hand.

I liked it better on the Steam Deck where

the thumbsticks were aligned like that,

but then on the Steam Deck it was hard to

use the buttons.

But you know, it'd be nice if they put the

thumbstick next to the buttons like that

so you could just easily use both of them.

It's just really annoying why,

why they put the thumbstick down and the

buttons up.

Why can't they just put them side by side?

It'll be much easier to hold it that way.

Yeah, yeah, apart from that, I guess it's

a pretty decent device, just lacking in

games right now.

Only game worth playing, I would say, is

Mario Kart World, and then all the other

games are just old games

or relaunched games like Tears of the

Kingdom, or old PC games like Cyberpunk or

Hitman.

Which I think is pretty cool you can play

on the Switch, but if you've already

played them, you're not really going to be

that excited to play them again.

So yeah, I mean, if you're going on a trip

and you're in the airport,

you could kind of already play these games

if you just got an ROG Ally or Steam Deck.

You could have been playing these PC games

for years, but now you get the option to

play on the Switch too.

I guess the only reason why you would do

that is if you really love Mario Kart and

Nintendo games, so you couldn't compromise

and get a Steam Deck because you just

couldn't play Mario games that way.

You've got to kind of pick and choose

which games you like more.

So for me, I kind of— I mean, I do like

Mario Kart, but I'm not a fan of Nintendo

games.

I just like Mario Kart because it's

instant dopamine, feels good.

It is quite a fun game to play if you want

to do a racing game.

And there's not really a lot of PC games

that I really desperately want to play

handheld, although it is nice to have the

option to be able to.

I mean, recently Stellar Blade came out on

PC.

That game would be really good on a

handheld, to be honest, because it's very

arcadey.

The control system would be very simple,

which would suit a handheld controller.

And, uh, yeah, it would be pretty fun

to casually play that because it's like a

very brain-dead kind of game, just

fighting enemies, got hot girls in it.

And you wouldn't be able to play that on

the Switch 2.

The closest thing you'd get is probably

Bayonetta or Devil May Cry on the Switch

2.

Maybe it will come to the Switch 2 at some

point, but I don't know because it's a

Sony game, isn't it?

But then if Sony is a competitor with

Nintendo and wouldn't release it on the

Switch 2, why would Sony release it on

Steam?

I guess I don't really see Steam users as

a competitor.

Yeah, PlayStation's weird because they

have these PlayStation exclusives and I

guess they want you to buy a PlayStation

to play it, but then after a few years

they release it on Steam anyway,

which makes you think, well, I didn't even

need a PlayStation.

I mean, unless you want to play the game a

few years earlier before it comes to

Steam.

So yeah, it's a hard thing to think about

if you want a Steam Deck or an ROG Ally.

And you get PC games, but then you can't

play Mario Kart.

And also, the Switch is always much

slimmer and better designed, in my

opinion.