In late 2017 I finally got my hands on a Nintendo Switch. I found myself jumping around between all the new exclusives I had access to: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Super Mario Odyssey, Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, Splatoon 2, and more. After juggling all these games at once for some time, I got sucked into Super Mario Odyssey and focused on beating it. I needed something to concentrate on. Prior to the Switch era, I would choose one large AAA game to play at a time, but over the last four years I’ve found myself repeating this new pattern and wondering: is it better to play multiple games at once or play them one at a time?

While there may be a number of large problems facing the world, there is no shortage of quality media to consume. The only problem…