Nintendo Switch: 10 Harsh Truths Nobody Wants To Admit

Yup, there's no way that battery doesn't suck.

By Brian Wilson /

With Nintendo revealing the Switch both in October and in-game on Jimmy Fallon, the gaming community is ecstatic. There are a bunch of reasons why: for a start, the Switch's marketing is completely different to that of the Wii U. It's clearly a new console, so there's no risk of any confusion.

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Not only that, but the trailer was populated by teenagers and young adults, not incredibly young children. In general, the Switch appears to be a more mature effort from Nintendo.

But at the end of the day, it's impossible to smother the niggling reality that this is Nintendo after all; the company who made so many awful decisions with their last console and who have yet to get with the times on so many modern features like sophisticated online play and a unified account system.

Not everything about the Nintendo Switch is perfect, and these flaws are likely to become more important as we approach the console's launch in March 2017.

The system still has a hell of a lot to overcome if it's going to save Nintendo from another massive flop, hopefully drawing in gamers who decided the Nintendo Wii U just wasn't worth the investment.

Let us know where you stand on the Switch in the comments below.

10. The Right Analogue Stick Is Positioned Awkwardly

When it comes to gaming, controllers are extremely important. They are, after all, how a player controls their games, and so a lot of time and money is spent designing controllers that are absolutely spot on: comfortable to hold while also being functional.

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The Nintendo Switch's pro controller looks fantastic. It's basically like the Wii U's pro controller, similar to the Xbox One's. But unfortunately the Pro Controller isn't the controller that comes with the system, it's the gamepad with the Joy Cons that players will be using (or the dock that comes for the Joy Cons, which sadly doesn't alleviate the issue).

The problem is with the positioning of the right analogue stick, which sits directly below the ABXY buttons. Every other mainstream controller on the market has the right analogue stick sit diagonal to these buttons, not directly underneath. Why? So that players can access the ABXY buttons without hitting the analogue stick. The Switch, unfortunately, is unable to lay out its controller this way because the analogue sticks have to fit on each Joy Con. It looks clunky as hell, and will likely push many players to spending extra cash on a pro controller.

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