8 year old's review of the Switch:
Editor’s note: Last week, Verge transportation editor Tamara Warren showed me a review of the Nintendo Switch by her eight-year-old son Benicio. Handwritten on ruled notebook paper, the critique showed gumption, vigor, and passion. As a craven and cynical editor, I was also struck by my good fortune: a Nintendo Switch review with custom art for nothing more than a box of popsicles. I simply couldn’t pass up the opportunity! So, I chomped on my Cuban cigar, spun on my fine leather swivel chair, pounded my mahogany desk, scribbled the page with absolutely vicious edits, and demanded a perfect revision by Wednesday. It’s my honor to now share the final draft. —Chris Plante
The Nintendo Switch is the new-and-improved game system for gamers like me. When I've gone over to my friends' houses, I explored the Xbox, and PlayStation 3 and 4. But these game systems are nothing compared to the Nintendo Switch. My grandmother just bought me the game system this summer, because I got a good report card.
If you have an Xbox or a PlayStation, you can't bring it on a trip with you. You have to leave it at home. But if you have a Switch, you can take it on the airplane. If you really want to finish something in your game, you can bring the Switch instead of leaving it at your house. The Nintendo Switch makes me happy, because I don't have to wait to go home to play.
You can use multiple controllers to play with your friends. I mostly play by myself, and sometimes I play with my friends or my parents. When I was on vacation, I played with my friend Evan and it was really cool to have competition. It was the first time I got to play with another kid. I can’t wait to play with my best friends Liam, Shrey, and Jackson when we all get back from summer vacation and have a sleepover.
My favorite part of the Nintendo Switch is the graphics. These graphics are the best graphics I've seen Nintendo make. They have really good-looking colors, and the ideas are presented in a clever way.
My favorite game is Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Some stadiums represent where the characters come from, like Yoshi Falls. Sometimes, characters decorate the tracks they sponsor, like Wario Stadium. Mario Kart has many new game modes, surroundings, and characters like Metal Mario.
Inside Nintendo Switch games, there are so many choices. In Mario Kart, there are three Rainbow Roads that are used on different grand prix tracks. There are many obstacles, such as the Venus Fly Trap. The obstacles really challenge you to finish in the top three.
In the game Arms there are characters like Max Brass and Ribbon Girl. Max Brass is my favorite character. He has a lot of muscle, but he can even beat a guy who has more muscle than him, like Master Mummy, because he has a super strong double punch. He bounces his opponent’s head against his chest, and then he slams a hard hit into his face.
Arms lets you choose different modes. I prefer Party Match mode because it has mini games, such as Hoops. I like throwing the player I am playing against into the basketball hoop. When I play Arms, I feel energetic and start bouncing around the room and waving my controllers.
There are many more games besides Mario Kart and Arms, but these two are the ones that I want to talk about. I am hoping to get Zelda on my birthday in September. The games so far are appropriate for young gamers in the world, and they are more fun than shooting games.
I support Xbox and PlayStation, but the Nintendo Switch made me feel like I was inside the game. I also love the Switch because if your mother or father doesn’t like the TV being on all the time, you can take it to your room to play. One night I even stayed up till 11:30 at night playing in bed.
Please don’t tell my mom
An eight-year-old reviews the Nintendo Switch
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Nintendo still influencing the youth. They're back. For some reason this article makes
, probably becuase it's a beautiful thing seeing kids get into games like we did. I can remember what it was like when I was younger. shyt's a great experience that can't be recreated....
Editor’s note: Last week, Verge transportation editor Tamara Warren showed me a review of the Nintendo Switch by her eight-year-old son Benicio. Handwritten on ruled notebook paper, the critique showed gumption, vigor, and passion. As a craven and cynical editor, I was also struck by my good fortune: a Nintendo Switch review with custom art for nothing more than a box of popsicles. I simply couldn’t pass up the opportunity! So, I chomped on my Cuban cigar, spun on my fine leather swivel chair, pounded my mahogany desk, scribbled the page with absolutely vicious edits, and demanded a perfect revision by Wednesday. It’s my honor to now share the final draft. —Chris Plante
The Nintendo Switch is the new-and-improved game system for gamers like me. When I've gone over to my friends' houses, I explored the Xbox, and PlayStation 3 and 4. But these game systems are nothing compared to the Nintendo Switch. My grandmother just bought me the game system this summer, because I got a good report card.
If you have an Xbox or a PlayStation, you can't bring it on a trip with you. You have to leave it at home. But if you have a Switch, you can take it on the airplane. If you really want to finish something in your game, you can bring the Switch instead of leaving it at your house. The Nintendo Switch makes me happy, because I don't have to wait to go home to play.
You can use multiple controllers to play with your friends. I mostly play by myself, and sometimes I play with my friends or my parents. When I was on vacation, I played with my friend Evan and it was really cool to have competition. It was the first time I got to play with another kid. I can’t wait to play with my best friends Liam, Shrey, and Jackson when we all get back from summer vacation and have a sleepover.
My favorite part of the Nintendo Switch is the graphics. These graphics are the best graphics I've seen Nintendo make. They have really good-looking colors, and the ideas are presented in a clever way.
My favorite game is Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Some stadiums represent where the characters come from, like Yoshi Falls. Sometimes, characters decorate the tracks they sponsor, like Wario Stadium. Mario Kart has many new game modes, surroundings, and characters like Metal Mario.
Inside Nintendo Switch games, there are so many choices. In Mario Kart, there are three Rainbow Roads that are used on different grand prix tracks. There are many obstacles, such as the Venus Fly Trap. The obstacles really challenge you to finish in the top three.
In the game Arms there are characters like Max Brass and Ribbon Girl. Max Brass is my favorite character. He has a lot of muscle, but he can even beat a guy who has more muscle than him, like Master Mummy, because he has a super strong double punch. He bounces his opponent’s head against his chest, and then he slams a hard hit into his face.
Arms lets you choose different modes. I prefer Party Match mode because it has mini games, such as Hoops. I like throwing the player I am playing against into the basketball hoop. When I play Arms, I feel energetic and start bouncing around the room and waving my controllers.
There are many more games besides Mario Kart and Arms, but these two are the ones that I want to talk about. I am hoping to get Zelda on my birthday in September. The games so far are appropriate for young gamers in the world, and they are more fun than shooting games.
I support Xbox and PlayStation, but the Nintendo Switch made me feel like I was inside the game. I also love the Switch because if your mother or father doesn’t like the TV being on all the time, you can take it to your room to play. One night I even stayed up till 11:30 at night playing in bed.
Please don’t tell my mom
An eight-year-old reviews the Nintendo Switch
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Nintendo still influencing the youth. They're back. For some reason this article makes
, probably becuase it's a beautiful thing seeing kids get into games like we did. I can remember what it was like when I was younger. shyt's a great experience that can't be recreated....
OJ Simpsom
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Real talk. Almost brings tears to my eyes watching my 4 year old's excitement beating down Bokoblins in Zelda: BOTW or getting 1st place/unlocking an item in MK8.I die laughing every time I hear him yell "Awmaaan, I swipped on my own danana."
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An 8 year old wrote a better review of ARMS than I did
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My kids fukking love my switch. Between Minecraft and Splatoon i can't even get in gaming time. Will likely buy my own soon.
Is there a way to transfer game save files from one switch to another?
Is there a way to transfer game save files from one switch to another?
I tried out the Switch voice chat using the app today at work.
Not right now, but it's rumored to happen sometime (when that time is...who knows?)
Kingshango
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I tried out the Switch voice chat using the app today at work.
So im guessing it worked elegantly?
it "worked" but shyt.So im guessing it worked elegantly?
Lol.
I was ready to pull out the link cable and some pokemon cards like tf
No way to move save data at the moment. Odds are if some type of cloud save system happens it will be behind a paywall. I don't think Nintendo ever intends to let users freely access save data on their own because they're afraid the system will get hacked using it.
the_FUTURE
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it "worked" but shyt.
Lol.
I was ready to pull out the link cable and some pokemon cards like tf
lolz. still think it's lol worthy to go that route but it does work. They should really bring back Miiverse for it with a proper messaging system this time around. Miiverse was great but it had some things that clearly needed to be addressed, like going from an in game post to the person person's profile to reply to that post. It was a good social system thou were you could share game from certain games and gain followers through your artwork and posts and whatnot. reminded me of pictochat for the DS if y'all remember that shyt
Iwata probably would have broke down in tears at that 8 year old's review. Or that one story on reddit of the dude's daughter being overly happy about getting first place in MK8Deluxe thanks to control assist.
I just used Skype to talk with a couple people while we played Splatoon 2.
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It's what people were using for the last one as well. Guess when the heard "voice chat" they were
followed by "through our smart device app" had em 
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I can't lie, I actually prefer the Nintendo version of voice chat. Because it tends to keep the racists away. Also voice chat on Nintendo is good because when you have kids playing you don't have to worry about them being exposed to racists online.
Nintendo always looks out for the kids. Gotta love it.
Nintendo always looks out for the kids. Gotta love it.