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There’s a kind of hardcore gamer condescension

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Wild Hunt (or any AAA port) on Switch only if

you have no other choice. It fails to consider that

by just having a portable option, this version may

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are free to have whatever gaming preferences

they like, but these days I praise Nintendo not

just for its games, but because it keeps doing

things that don’t align with these increasingly

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A video game culture that prioritizes graphics and

raw quantitative technical specs above anything

else is prone to ignoring more experiential

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those specs. It’s the classic example of trading the

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console. The uniquely underpowered yet portable

Switch makes this continuum even more extreme.

Would you trade the dream of the most premium

yet isolated and time-consuming gaming

experience possible for something more modest

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games on average? It’s the same reason Labo VR

on Switch won me over, despite weak specs; it

was something real people could use.

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But I found the poor, pre-patch performance in,

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