Customer Ratings & Reviews

I love my switch, thankfully Best Buy managed to get one in stock so I didn't have to give into the scalpers. Switch is not only portable but it is the only place to play games like BOTW, FE Three Houses, and Smash Ultimate. Those were my first three games and those games were enough to justify the purchase of the Switch. Get the Switch if you love those games.

Bought for a Christmas gift for my son and he loves it. We knew we were going to buy one and picked Best Buy, for couple extra dollars we also got the geek squad protection which is why we definitely decided Best Buy had the best bundle deal. Switch is a super fun little gadget for at home and on the go in the car. Glad we bought it for him keeps him busy!

Waited years to get one as I usually play ps4/5. Very fun and a lot different than the straight console feel. Could use more onboard storage as you need a micro sd card off the bat to download more games. Just started botw and having a great time!

Bought this for a friend of mine after I bought my own. Since it's the upgraded system, it has a better battery life, allowing you to play games upwards to potentially about 9 hours. It also comes with all you need to play the console on TV, as a handheld, or on tabletop mode. Do recommend a microSD card for downloading digital games since it has only 32 GB of storage.

The Switch is the best gaming console because of the portability and how multiplayer friendly it is. The Joy-Cons works great as 2 different controllers and if you decide to purchase one I highly suggest downloading games instead of buying card because me personally would hate to lose one the $60 game cards so I suggest downloading, I personally download from Amazon because of the convience of the payment method. I highly suggest to purchase one!!!

If you were like me and tried to have some self-control regarding purchasing the Nintendo Switch, your patience has been rewarded. The change isn't just with the package design; this is a v.2 of the Switch. Though the upgrades are minimal, this new version has a longer battery life and brighter screen than its predecessor (which is upgrade enough for me). If I didn't wait, knowing me, I would have been bummed when this version came out. The console itself is great for any Nintendo fan. I love that the console uses USB-C to charge, meaning I'm not locked into some Nintendo proprietary cable - I'm pretty much good with any old USB-C cable and charger. Other than that, the Switch has been out long enough that most people will have already handled one at least once before (or at least watched someone use one on YouTube or Twitch), so I don't know that I need to go too deep into a technical review here. My only gripe is that it's not backwards compatible, not even with the Virtual Console games I installed on my Wii and Wii U. The only way to play "classic" games is to purchase a subscription (ugh).

As you would expect. Great system. Fun games. Love how its sharable.

I have been a fan of Nintendo since the beginning, I have owned almost every one of their systems with the exceptions of the Virtual boy and the Wii U. While I had lost faith in them with the Wii and had hoped they would just turn to make third party games for Xbox and or Sony. They proved me wrong and made this great system. While not the graphical powerhouse of the other two, Nintendo has never put graphics above fun. Zelda Breath of the Wild looks fantastic on the switch, either in console dock at home, or in handheld mode on the go, and it was a joy to play. I must of played it for over 100 hours. This is the only system in my life that I own more than one. My kids who were not gamers, suddenly wanted to play this all the time. The only issue I have with this system would be the joy-cons, they have an issue that will inevitably pop up called the drift. The joy sticks become loose and will move your character with you wanting them to. At $80 for a new pair, it’s a tad pricey to replace them. That is why I would never buy the Switch Lite, those joy-cons are not removable, once they have the drift issue, they would have to be repaired. Pay the extra $100 and get the main Switch model. And splurge on the Pro Controller, I waited to get it for a long time and I wish I hadn’t. That this is great, but again Pricey.

Great battery, honestly I bought it to leave it connected to the TV, but being able to just play anywhere I want is quite awesome. I just wish I had more free time to enjoy it more often. The only problem with the software design is not being able to turn it off without the need of pressing the power button for 3 seconds... But that's nintendo's fault, not best buy

I much prefer hand held consoles so the switch has been a hit for me. We originally bought it for my fiancé and I too share, however I get so addicted to the games I play, I think we need to buy him his own. I will say one of the controllers got joy on drift a few months ago and we had to buy replacements. Supposedly Nintendo would have replaced it however I didn’t want to wait, so I’m unsure. The new controllers work fine. We’ve only had it for a little over a year but it seems to be in great condition other than the joycon issue. I also really like that the Nintendo store has a huge variety of games, which also include many indie games. However some of those games don’t seem to get updated anymore. Sad.

Love this! You can play it anywhere and the charge last forever!

I love this! I grew up playing nitendo and I enjoy playing games I haven’t in a while such as Mario!

Bought this for my daughter after her older version died completely. She loves it and it worked perfectly.

This has been a great product. I’ve not had any issues and set up was very user friendly for someone who is not into the gaming world. I would say that it would be better if it had more storage built into it, but other than that I can’t complain.

We bought a Switch after playing at a friend's house and decided we must have one. I love the flexibility of playing on the big screen or personally as a portable device, as well as being able to purchase game cartridges or download them from the store. I also love the availability of quality indie games at the Switch store. Nintendo is known for their party games, but I have the feeling I'll be breaking it out for individual play often.

'm a HUGE gamer (you might say part of the "hardcore gamer" crowd), and I have owned every major home console to exist from the Atari 2600 onwards. I have about 25 years' worth of those consoles still on my entertainment center. And while there are valid criticisms of the Switch (which I'll get into), it remains a 5-star experience, because this device is just simply fun, no matter who you are. Let me immediately jump into one of the chief concerns on folks' minds: games. Or lack thereof at launch. Nintendo has a fairly poor recent history of third-party support, but nonetheless, the Switch is the first system I've pre-ordered since the PS2 nearly 20 years ago. I have no concerns at all that the games will come. Why am I so confident? Because Nintendo's chief struggle has been a divided market for their games. In Japan everyone loves their handhelds (3DS/PSP), and consoles get ignored. Here in the Western market, we're the exact opposite. Because of that divide (along with unclear marketing), the WiiU never received the support it needed to succeed. That won't happen with the Switch. You'll see support for the 3DS (which has an amazing selection of quality games) slowly start to ebb, and Nintendo will eventually end up with one unified platform for all their software, East and West, portable and console. That means you'll see more great games on Switch, because things that used to be handheld-exclusive will now show up Switch... even if you intend to use the Switch docked 100% of the time. Which leads into my next point: I'm obviously an American gamer. I'm not into handhelds myself. When I bought this, I assumed I would use it docked 99% of the time. After owning it for a month, turns out I was wrong on that front, and this is where the Wii-style "it's just fun" comes in. The JoyCons feel like a natural evolution of the Wiimote, and enable a game like 1-2 Switch which, while admittedly on the shallow side, gets non-gamers engaged quickly and easily. I brought it over to my mother-in-law's when we were visiting a couple weeks ago, propped it up in the first-party carrying case (which also serves as an on-the-go stand), and I had non-gamers instantly engaged in the quick-draw and ball-count minigames. While I don't plan to bring it to rooftop parties or basketball courts (my word, those ads were silly), I can actually see the use-case of taking it along to a bar working out pretty well. The screen for sure is beautiful, and big enough to support off-TV multiplayer with no issue. And those JoyCons, by the way? I have large hands, and I'm as surprised as anyone to report that as tiny as they are, they're not uncomfortable to use even for hours as tiny individual controllers for multiplayer-on-the-go. And they feel even nicer when you use the two of them together, one in each hard. Honestly, you can forget the included grip. The freedom of being able to rest your hands anywhere you want while retaining full control is a revelation. Oh, and, side-note that I have not experienced any of the Left JoyCon connection issues which have been widely reported. As far as the battery life: it's definitely enough for my purposes, though maybe not everyone's. It gets in a solid 2.5 hours of battery life of high-intensity gaming, and naturally seems to do better than that for simpler games and lower brightness settings. The only use-case for me that doesn't work out is using it on cross-country or international flights. But frankly, it's not as far off from the 3DS's typical battery life as people are suggesting, and I know my iPhone 7 certainly doesn't do any better than the Switch does as far as battery life while gaming. I will say that, a minor annoyance to me is that the Switch's sleeping/idle battery usage is way, way too high. I took it out of the dock at 100% one time and left it on my coffee table. Next day it was completely dead and wouldn't turn on. So if you're going to take it out of the dock for use later, I suggest you turn it OFF, which can only be achieved by holding the power button on the device itself (via controller, SLEEP is the only power-off option given). Nagging little issue on the dock: I was one of an apparently somewhat large pool of people who received a dock which is bent inwards a bit. Seems like this may have been a packaging issue. Fortunately mine isn't bent as badly as some others I've seen online, and I have not experienced any resulting screen-scratching... yet. The fortunate thing on this front is, the parts of the screen that would potentially get scratched are on the far edges and are just black space anyway. Would not actually detract from the gaming experience were it to happen. More on the dock: I don't actually care myself, but for those who want it, the HDMI-CEC implementation seems wonky. When docked, my Switch would occasionally steal away the input even when in sleep mode. I just disabled the Switch's HDMI-CEC so it wouldn't do that anymore. I imagine a firmware update will solve that issue in short order anyhow. Transition between the dock, handheld mode, and back is just as smooth as Nintendo's ads represent it to be. Very, very slick. Have to also give props to Nintendo for adding a clear controller management screen for turning controllers on and off, which is something I struggled with on the Wii/WiiU (as in, this controller accidentally got turned on, is there seriously no way to turn it off without powering down the whole system? That's fixed now!). Can't judge online play yet, obviously, but for what it's worth, my download of Snipperclips (HIGHLY recommended for all ages, by the way) a week after launch was extraordinarily slow and suffered frequent disconnects. Impossible to tell if that's a device issue or a server issue, but for now I'll cross my fingers and hope it was a server issue. To be clear, if you want to play the latest sports games, FPS's, and the like, and you only plan to buy one game system... the Switch may not be for you. To me it's very much a supplement to one of: a gaming PC, PS4, or XB1, as far as hardcore gamers are concerned. But what a worthwhile supplement! Besides the 1st-party normal certainties (Zelda, Mario, Smash, Kart, Metroid, Donkey Kong, etc), you can be sure Monster Hunter, Xenoblade, Fire Emblem, Phoenix Wright, Professor Layton, and other compelling properties will be making appearances on Switch. In summary, the Switch is an awesome, fun device. It unapologetically does not have the graphical horsepower of the other major gaming devices on the market due to its hybrid nature, but that's fine with me... I care about fun games, not pixel-counting. If I could give it a 4.5 I would, but its issues are all minor enough that I wouldn't feel right deducting a full star. It's the new darling of my entertainment center, with the versatility of the JoyCons giving it a better range of appeal between the casual and hardcore crowds than any other gaming system, ever. I can't wait for more games to drop for it!

Now I’ve owned one for over a year and I love it!!! My nephew comes over all the time and is always wanting to play with my switch and when it’s time for him to go, he gets sad that he has to stop playing so I went ahead and bought him his own switch! He loved it as soon as he opened it! The actual switch is amazing! All the great games and the different ways to play it are awesome!

This Nintendo Switch was really purchased as a gift for my son. He enjoys the Nintendo line of games, especially anything Mario. I am impressed with how portable the game system is, and when plugged into the dock to play on a large screen tv, the gameplay is almost no difference, except for the touchscreen capability. Definitely a very good game system.

Longer battery life, for some reason better and brighter screen(?), AND I PRAY no joy-con drift hopefully.

Amazing gaming system. Its so much fun. Take anywhere options. Download games using internet access or if you dont have internet, there are a lot of game cartridges to buy.