I’ve been playing with our Nintendo Switch for quite some time now, testing its multiple modes of play, and now I think I’ve spent enough time with it for me to finally talk about it. First of all, the initial set up; it was quite easy for me to use the Switch from the beginning, so easy that I forgot what exactly it was that I did. I just set up my region (chose U.S. to avoid possible issues with the Nintendo eShop), time zone, and created my user profile. I then linked up my Nintendo Network ID (NNID) and it did a quick system update, then was good to go.

The games that I initially had (Doom, NBA 2K18, Puyo Puyo Tetris) all needed some updates as well, but were all playable to some extent even without updating so I was able to immediately play Doom right after purchase. I…