I know that it has a shorter battery life than the OLED plus the Switch 2 doesn’t even have an OLED screen by default. Also, the library of games exclusive to the Switch 2 isn’t much (they do have CP 2077, HW: AoI, DK: Bananza, MKW) & paid upgrades for both BoTW & TotK. Do you consider the Switch 2 worth it when you factor in shorter battery life, paid upgrades, 2 microSD card tiers (normal & express), expensive accessories & etc?
Depends on how much you’d want to use it, to be honest.
People balked at its price tag at launch, but it’s currently the cheapest entry point to gaming. It delivers better performance than the Steam Deck at nearly half the price, but the tradeoff is the closed ecosystem.
If there are key games you want to play on Switch 2 that are easy to get for less than MSRP, I’d say it’s worth it. If you are only interested in games that are also available on every other platform, and you have other options to play them, I’d skip the Switch 2 and save your money. It’s probably not worth it for just 1 or 2 big exclusive titles right now. But it’s only been around for a little over a year, so there will also certainly be more to look forward to down the road.
The only other factor is that hardware is continuing to get more expensive over time. Short of a major changes to global production/the AI bubble bursting, I wouldn’t count on that changing for a while yet. So there may also never be a cheaper time to get a Switch 2 than right now, especially when we know the price of the console will go up in just a couple months.
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