Customer Ratings & Reviews

While we're all suffering through our collective Quarantina Turner crisis, this has been keeping me sane. The BF has taken it over, for now, to play Animal Crossing (send help), but the game play of Super Smash and Zelda are fantastic. I'm VERY impressed with the system, price point and wide range of video games (classic NES, current Switch games and other online gaming like Fortnite and Minecraft).

Great game for the whole family easy to use controllers very simple and easy to set up very mobile. Very many games to play

I love the nostalgia games like the 3D All stars and the new ones of Zelda. I love the option of having digital games to download or being able to have cartridges (SD Cards). More options from other game publishers making their games available via download helps immensely. If you're going to download your games, I would recommend getting a larger Micro SD memory card for storage.

My nephew really loves playing Mario Kart 8. He's only five years old, but he can hold his own. The quality of this device is outstanding, and when entering passwords and user names, one just has to only type it in from the on-screen keyboard instead of using a D-pad to search for each character. Great idea. You have a handheld device and a device that you can connect to your tv.

I love this Game Nintendo Switch is a game-changer! The hybrid design is genius—play on your TV or on the go without missing a beat. The exclusive games are top-tier (Zelda, Mario, Animal Crossing), and the Joy-Cons make local multiplayer super fun. It’s perfect for gamers of all ages. Portable, powerful, and packed with fun—the Switch nails it!

The Best Buy team assisted me in purchasing an item for my kids, even though it was listed as out of stock on their website. They found the product and helped me with the online purchase. They also informed me of the closest store where I could pick it up within an hour's distance. It was such an easy same-day process—great job, everyone!

The Nintendo Switch is very entertaining, various first party games offered by Nintendo makes it fun to play with family, friends or even by yourself. It's simple to use for children and adults. I get to play in my living room or in my backyard. One issue I found is that it only has 32 GB of memory storage, but I was able to add an affordable 256 GB Micro SD card for additional 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!!!

it is a good console I would recommend it if you want to play Nintendo games. great selection of games such as Zelda and Mario. It is a good console for travel and on the TV- if you want to play with both, I recommend it!

Gotten as a replacement for one that I dropped. Absolutely stunning picture and very easy game play,

I like that this Gaming system is very portable. So you can take it on the go with you or anywhere in the house to play. But I also like that it can hook up to the TV and you can play it through the TV. They also use it to play my Nintendo fit game to help the family stay active. Also a lower-cost gaming alternative than some of the systems out there and much more functional for road trips.

Like what so many others have reiterated, the Switch is such an innovative system when it comes primarily to their first party titles and ports. The system feels like it's a culmination and infusion of their part consoles, from motion sensors, optional handheld mode, the list goes on and on. It's the thought and development into the Switch's games that I truly can appreciate these many years later throughout my time playing video games. Interface is easy to navigate, with ease and accessibility. Only downside that I noticed is the joy cons will disconnect what seems to be randomly. Not sure if there's any update or remedies to this. The gamepad option doesn't display this issue at all so that's another alternative if you prefer. Can't wait to see what's in store for this system!

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).

Perfect console for kids or adult kids. My wife got me this for my birthday and I love it. Was originally a Playstation guy, but couldn't wait any longer for the PS5 so I settled for the Switch. It was actually a better decision in my opinion. The game Breath of the Wild alone is worth buying this thing for. Not only that, but there are a lot of good multiplayer games like Mario Golf, Smash Brothers, and Mario Kart with the PS5 is lacking. Portability is a very nice feature. You can disconnect the main console and it becomes a larged sized Game Boy that can easily be taken on car rides or plane rides. The controllers aren't the best, but you can buy the Pro Controllers for a little extra and give your friends the standard controllers for multiplayer games!

'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!

Switches are great! Especially switch sports! This was our second one for the house because the first one was being used on Pokémon and a second was needed for the game room to play sports

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.

It's a Nintendo Switch. It's under powered, and frankly ergonomically awkward, but it's also the way to play Nintendo games so I guess its pretty ok.

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 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.