{"id":398,"date":"2025-03-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nichesitetool.com\/?p=398"},"modified":"2025-03-18T06:38:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T06:38:39","slug":"why-ive-decided-to-get-a-nintendo-switch-2-instead-of-a-ps5-readers-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nichesitetool.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/15\/why-ive-decided-to-get-a-nintendo-switch-2-instead-of-a-ps5-readers-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I\u2019ve decided to get a Nintendo Switch 2 instead of a PS5 \u2013 Reader\u2019s Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Nintendo Switch 2 should be out sometime around June (YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A reader reveals he\u2019s never owned a Nintendo console before but is now planning to get a Switch 2<\/a> instead of a PlayStation 5<\/a>.<\/p>\n

These are strange times for just about everything at the moment and while it seems wrong to compare video games<\/a> to serious world events it feels like the problems are all the same: an overall sense that everything\u2019s going in the wrong direction and things we know to be good are being abandoned for no sensible reason.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll keep my comments limited to video games though and say that I don\u2019t like the direction Microsoft<\/a> or Sony are going at the moment. Sony hasn\u2019t done anything to show it\u2019s given up on live service games (Sony hasn\u2019t done anything, period, all year so far) and Microsoft is still running around like a headless chicken.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t really care about Microsoft because I haven\u2019t owned an Xbox console since the Xbox 360, but I really don\u2019t like where they\u2019re going with AI at the moment<\/a>. Especially as we got that leak about Sony\u2019s AI plans<\/a> this week as well and, as usual, it was all just about doing artists out of their jobs. I don\u2019t own a PlayStation 5 either, just a PlayStation 4, but I was considering getting one. But now I think I\u2019ll just go with a Nintendo Switch 2<\/a> instead.<\/p>\n

My filthy secret is that I have never owned a Nintendo console. I\u2019ve had them in the house, when borrowing them or when people have brought round their portables, but for one reason or another I\u2019ve never actually owned one. I did mean to get around to the Switch but obviously there\u2019s no point doing that now, especially when the Switch 2 is backwards compatible.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m in my 40s now so I\u2019m not Nintendo\u2019s target audience, certainly not for things like Kirby and Animal Crossing and whatever (see, I know all the names!) but I am interested in trying Zelda and Metroid and maybe Fire Emblem. The good thing about having never had one of their consoles before is that I\u2019ve got so much new stuff open to me, so I\u2019m thinking that even if I don\u2019t like a lot of it at least it\u2019ll be fun finding out.<\/p>\n

Also, there seems a good chance the Switch 2 is going to be able to play a lot of current and last gen games, so it\u2019s not like I\u2019d be stuck only with unfamiliar Nintendo franchises. We already know Microsoft is going to be all over it and if the console is going to be as big as people think I would imagine more or less every publisher will want to be involved.<\/p>\n

I hear it might be expensive, but that\u2019s okay because I\u2019d put money aside for the PlayStation 5. I\u2019m at a point where I want to see something different and I really liked Nintendo\u2019s attitude to AI<\/a>, where they just came out and said they\u2019re not interested and they\u2019re not going to do it.<\/p>\n

Microsoft and Sony are so corporate nowadays, with not even an attempt to pretend they care about gaming, that it\u2019s really putting me off. I know there\u2019s plenty of good games on their systems, by people that do still care, but I can\u2019t shake the feeling.<\/p>\n

A change is as good as a rest they say, and since I don\u2019t want to give up on gaming – and I certainly don\u2019t want to get a PC – I\u2019ll give the Switch 2 a go. I can\u2019t imagine any way in which it would be worse than a PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X.<\/p>\n

By reader Neosquash<\/strong><\/p>\n

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