There are three ways in which you can use your Nintendo Switch to play games. First is the hand-held mode, in which you attach the joy-cons to the left and right edge of the screen and use the console like Playstation Vita. The gaming experience in hand-held mode is impressive, as it offers the full game on-the-go without any real compromise apart from the downgrade in screen resolution and a finite battery life. Second is the console mode, in which you put the console in the included
dock, and connect it to your television. The detached joy-cons are then used to control the switch from a distance. Moving the tablet in and out of the dock is easy, and you can even do it mid-game without pausing if you wish - it only takes the console a second to switch the display between the tablet screen and the TV. The last mode is the tabletop mode. Using the kickstand that’s attached to the back of the screen you can prop the console up on a table and then detach the Joy-Cons for some semi-portable gaming. This is pretty cool and not something you can do with the PS4 or Xbox One. However, it is a little fiddly in the sense that you're playing games on a relatively small 6.2in screen so you can't sit too far away and play comfortably.
When compared with the hand-held consoles that have come before it, the Nintendo Switch blows them out of water with its graphical quality. This is helped by its impressive screen which is bright, crisp, and colorful. The docking and undocking process is impressively seamless, with games that don’t even need to be paused before being plugged into a television. One-part hand-held and one-part console, Nintendo's latest piece of hardware wants to be the only device you need for gaming. In many ways it's a big success, offering an exceptional level of hand-held graphical quality, before seamlessly transitioning into a home console – but this very adaptability has necessitated
compromises which mean it isn't quite as good as the dedicated consoles and hand-helds that have gone before it. The Nintendo Switch will cost you about $299.99 in the US, and £279.99 in the UK.
References: The Verge, PCAdvisor, TechRadar, Nintendo, Youtube(Jonathan Morrison, Austin Evans)