


In essence this is just a smaller, lighter and more svelte Switch. It’s hard to argue they haven’t done that. The Switch Lite then, along with its cheaper price to tempt newcomers, is an unusual concept but a fundamentally simple one: making the best portable version of Switch they can. Nintendo no doubt have the empirical evidence to tell how much time has been spent with Switches connected to the TV and how long in handheld, but anecdotally it seems it would be considerably skewed to the latter. Even if that wasn’t the original intention.
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Its game library is increasingly impressive – complete with brilliant first-party titles and a swathe of indie gems – while its full suite of controls has made it the most accomplished handheld games console yet. Nintendo is firmly aware that, despite all its impressive mod-cons, the Switch has found its place in people’s lives as a handheld device. Some of its more idiosyncratic features like the infrared sensor? Gone.Īnd yet a few days with this portable only version of the Switch and it all begins to make sense. No detachable Joy-Con controllers to snap off and hand to a pal. It's a Switch that can't Switch so no being able to play it on the go and use it as a home console on the big TV. Here is a new version of its lauded and successful console that strips out many of its key features. Rarely a company to do the expected, the very concept of Nintendo’s pared-down Switch Lite console may seem odd.
