Today marks the 1 year anniversary of the Switch 2 release and it has been quite a year.

Honestly, I have a PS5 Pro and I have a MSI Claw 8, and over the past year I have actually found myself picking up my Switch 2 more than those other two devices. Switch 2 has kind of become my preferred way to play games, even third parties. I think it’s the experience of playing on Switch 2. It is just such an easy pick up and play experience with no faffing with drivers, fighting Windows or tweaking settings. The other part of the experience is the fact I can play docked or handheld and seamlessly transition to playing handheld or docked, which my Claw simply cannot match. At the age of 43, it is experience over power and graphics that I value most. I just wish Nintendo would make “Pro” joy cons for handheld play.

As for first party releases, I think Nintendo has kind of got their release cadence about right. The last thing I’d want is for them to blow their load on the biggest hitters in the first year and then go multiple years with nothing (like happened with the Wii U). Better to sprinkle in a few bigger games while filling the gaps with smaller games in their vast IP catalogue. In the first year I think it was always more important to get third parties on board helping them get dev kits and showing them that Nintendo will help them promote their games.