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The Switch lite is the worst portable system that I've ever owned.
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I love the PSP Go but it is the most uncomfortable handheld I've ever used
My uncle did the same for his son after I explained he won't be able to play on TV or play some of the game on the Lite.
The Switch is way more in the column of console than handheld, and one of the ways to tell is that most games have UIs built for TVs and not a small tablet screen.
I'm having flashbacks to playing text heavy games on an iPhone/iPad where everything was either too small or too big; in short I don't think it's the result of the handheld when devs don't take different screen sizes into account.
No idea about the ergonomics because I liked what I played with in a store once. I just never got one because the system they have for using multiple switches is awful.
No idea about the ergonomics because I liked what I played with in a store once. I just never got one because the system they have for using multiple switches is awful.
Never understood the point of Switch Lite besides the marketing aspect (providing a cheaper Switch to occupy the market).
The Switch isn't such a great portable, its main point is being an hybrid (hence the name...)
Making it full portable reveals all its ergonomics flaws, such as a pure home version would feel quite weird with its low computing power.
But as a console that can be played on the big screen or in the bed/when travelling/etc depending on your mood and/or availability, it's convenient to the point it outshines its limitations.
The Switch isn't such a great portable, its main point is being an hybrid (hence the name...)
Making it full portable reveals all its ergonomics flaws, such as a pure home version would feel quite weird with its low computing power.
But as a console that can be played on the big screen or in the bed/when travelling/etc depending on your mood and/or availability, it's convenient to the point it outshines its limitations.
Yeah, lets all enjoy those gorgeous vistas in Xenoblade on a 4 inch, 240p screen. /barf
I mean, yeah, I did, for a hundred hours
Xenoblade wasn't a looker on Wii when it released, the impressiveness was always the scale of the world on a weak system not the visual fidelity
Even then, the scale is just lost on a tiny screen to me. Dolphin did help the visuals quite a bit as well.
I think your milage will differ greatly on the lite depending on if you have small hands or not. I think it's a smidge on the small side, but the analogs are way better than the VITA's. OG switch is great; but the screen on the lite is perfect for the resolution output of 720 or indie....next switch or Pro will have potential to be perfect though. Although this is Nintendo we're talking about here.
Never tried the Lite, but I didn't like the regular Switch in handheld, it was just not nice for me to hold. I 3D printed a grip I found on Thingiverse at work that let me slide the Switch into it and it felt like a very long Xbox controller and was SO much better.
Edit: This was the one https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2234489
Edit: This was the one https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2234489
Mainly I don't know why they didn't adjust the right analog stick position so that it's diagonal from the buttons. Having it be directly below the buttons is terrible and one of the main reasons I use the Hori Split Pad Pro in portable mode. I can put up with the shoulder and trigger buttons on the Joy-Cons in portable mode, but I really find the right analog stick extremely uncomfortable and inconvenient, even just as a camera stick in Mario Odyssey.
I get that in the regular switch they needed to keep it that way cause the Joy-Cons become little controllers for multiplayer stuff, but on the Switch Lite there's no reason they couldn't have moved stuff around a bit. They already replaced the left side buttons with a d-pad, no reason to not also shift the placement of the d-pad and right analog stick a bit. I'd rather the system be a few millimeters wider than have that uncomfortable positioning. It's not like they kept that awful vertical placement for the Pro Controller.
I get that in the regular switch they needed to keep it that way cause the Joy-Cons become little controllers for multiplayer stuff, but on the Switch Lite there's no reason they couldn't have moved stuff around a bit. They already replaced the left side buttons with a d-pad, no reason to not also shift the placement of the d-pad and right analog stick a bit. I'd rather the system be a few millimeters wider than have that uncomfortable positioning. It's not like they kept that awful vertical placement for the Pro Controller.
It will probably be my favorite by the end of the gen, if it's not already. Small and easier to carry around, better battery than my launch unit Switch, and most games are fine resolution wise.
ok but my sister Eunice loves it and I always agree with her so
OP, the OG switch has a bigger screen and that doesn't solve the small text issue. It's not the hardware, the game developers who are lazy to optimize theirs games for handheld mode. As for ergonomics, I don't think there a modern handheld console that has good ergonomics, my OG switch hurts my wrist. My kid has a lite and I bought him grips from skull and co. and its handles nice.
The Switch Lite is imo very ergonomic and feels great in the hands. The OG Switch almost feels bulky compared.
That said it does not have HD rumble and can't be connected to a TV, therefore it is inferior to the OG Switch.
But it is not a bad handheld at all, the library alone makes it one of the best.
That said it does not have HD rumble and can't be connected to a TV, therefore it is inferior to the OG Switch.
But it is not a bad handheld at all, the library alone makes it one of the best.
Opposite here, my hands are bunked up from a life of labor, the weight difference between the normal and the lite is well enough for me to play and not have any issues. I find a lot of text in games to small for me to ever read on my tv, the switch I can hold up to my face. A nice modest grip helped a ton with the ergonomics. I don't think I've ever had a Nintendo handheld I didn't have to add some ergonomic case to.
I'm sorry I shared something negative about your favorite plastic thing.
lmao I'm kidding I just felt like writing something nonsensical (I don't have a sister)
That's highly selective, as there are plenty of titles on the eShop that support local wireless. It's up to the developer, not Nintendo to provide local wireless play support.
Just remember, the Virtua Boy was considered "Portable" at the time.
So it could be much, much much worse.
So it could be much, much much worse.
Text size is a huge problem on Switch.
But unfortunately they don't, which makes the Switch a bad choice for portable gaming.
Yeah it's absolutely the user's eyes' fault, that explains above comparison.
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A friend lent his Psvita to me for a month more or less, it felt great
sometime later I bought a 3DS and that thing felt horrible, it was like a shoebox with 0 ergonomics
sometime later I bought a 3DS and that thing felt horrible, it was like a shoebox with 0 ergonomics
OP
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Wow. Horrible and pretty much displays the huge problem this thing has.
I made a whole thread about this. It's ridiculous.
Fire Emblem Three Houses has ridiculously small Text (Update: Kotaku Article)
-- Now with Threadmarks! -- Fire Emblem Awakening (2013) vs Fire Emblem Three Houses (2019). Notice how the dialogue boxes of both games are almost the same size? Yet the text on Switch is tiny compared to 3DS. Look at the amount of blank space in the textbox. When the textbox (not the...
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The best comment was this one:
LMAO. I was just out playing this game on my porch. I'm looking through a list of students when an ant crawls onto my screen.
The ant itself was literally bigger than some student's whole names. If the ant had crawled over Hubert's name, it could have covered his name entirely with its body.
This is my Switch. I put a US 5 cent piece on the screen.
Note how the text on the damn coin is larger than the text on the screen. I didn't even notice until I was taking the picture.
See Hubert, Caspar, and Petra on that list there? Any of their names names could fit entirely onto the Switch's tiny tiny face buttons, at that font size. That is not a joke, just look.
It's l i t e r a l l y tiny text for ants.
It's really cool that you've got 20/10 vision, I'm pretty jealous. Unfortunately, for all too many of us non-Kryptonians, text that's smaller and less legible than what you'd find on a US coin ain't gonna cut it.
Absolutely agreed.
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The end result is the same. This is something we never had to worry about with any other handheld.
I love the Switch Lite. In fact, I regularly think about how it is the best portable device ever made.
I pretty much disagree with every part of the OP. It feels great in my hands (much better than the OG Switch), and I think the screen is perfectly sized for many of the games I play on the Switch. There are plenty of console-first games on the Switch, but in my opinion many of Nintendo's first party games and countless indies don't lose much when played off of the television.
I pretty much disagree with every part of the OP. It feels great in my hands (much better than the OG Switch), and I think the screen is perfectly sized for many of the games I play on the Switch. There are plenty of console-first games on the Switch, but in my opinion many of Nintendo's first party games and countless indies don't lose much when played off of the television.
I think the OP gets some things right, but his two games are ACNH and NSMBU which don't really match up to the key complaints. Neither of those require any complex hand movement and the text relative to screen size is gigantic.
Personally, I prefer the form factor and screen size of the Lite, but I'd rather they try making the unit smaller eventually, without sacrificing (too much of) the screen size. I much prefer the OG Switch + Pro Controller for 3d games however.
Personally, I prefer the form factor and screen size of the Lite, but I'd rather they try making the unit smaller eventually, without sacrificing (too much of) the screen size. I much prefer the OG Switch + Pro Controller for 3d games however.
Oh man the switch lite God what a time I had with that system.... First I got a turquoise one with a horrible dpad on launch day. Couldn't register diagonals so in Street figher hadukens were impossible. Even games like lttp couldn't walk diagonally. It was ridiculous and I couldn't believe that the system would ship like that. I sent it to nintendo, they replaced the console and dpad was perfect. I was pretty happy with it up until a couple of months ago when I got joycon drift. Because of covid I couldn't send it in so I tried fixing it myself and it worked but then the minus button broke. I ended up just getting a new full on switch and selling the lite later on when I got it fixed. It really is a great system but because of quality control if anyone were choosing between the two..,..no don't do it just get a regular switch trust me.
Look, if it's good enough for Eunice it's good enough for me, Eunice is usually right
Oof yeah there's no excuse for text to be that small on the Switch. I wonder if the lower resolution screen of the 3DS forced developers to make their text larger? Either way, if someone with 20/20 vision has to strain to read text theres issues
Not only does the size of text and such cause eyestrain, but I find the colours of the buttons and plastic around clash so horribly with the screen it's impossible to focus on (I have a grey one). Add to that an overall cheaply squishy feeling to the buttons compared to the standard Switch and control sticks that feel flimsy, and you have a technologically amazing device that is as much use to me as a paperweight.
I'll be selling mine soon.
I'll be selling mine soon.
Hard disagree OP. I own three different switches (launch / revision / lite), and the lite is by far my favourite for day-to-day gaming.
I mostly play it alongside my wife while she watches trash on tv, and have been fortunate not to suffer any hand or joint pain (yet!).
Ultimately, I have the Series X / PS5 if I want the bells and whistles video game experience; the Switch Lite services all other gaming needs.
I mostly play it alongside my wife while she watches trash on tv, and have been fortunate not to suffer any hand or joint pain (yet!).
Ultimately, I have the Series X / PS5 if I want the bells and whistles video game experience; the Switch Lite services all other gaming needs.