Just like you, I was looking for information before and after buying Nintendo’s Latest console, I was reading reviews everywhere I could find them, stocking up information. After purchasing the system, I realized that the experience the Nintendo Switch gives to a third world country is very different from the experience I was reading about and watching online from foreign countries.

At this point, I will quickly drop a disclaimer that, This post was not sponsored by Nintendo in anyway.

I am not a Nintendo fan. Infact I used to laugh at people who had consoles, but that was because i played games on my PC. I always thought it pointless to own a console, when you could have a pc you could use for work and for gaming, which XBOX games and Playstation games would still come to (Apart from 1 or 2 exclusives which wont kill you if you dont play). My last Nintendo console was the Gameboy, played a lot of N64 at my friends homes. and that was it. No 2DS, no 3DS, no gamecube, no Wii, no Wii u. So why the Nintendo switch? I’d like to think of myself as a geeky open minded person, who knows a good thing when he sees it.

DECLINE

I kept saying to myself, “you must be getting old”.

My interest for gaming was declining, the only games I played now was Soccer with my friends, I played like 2 adventures, Metal gear and Tomb raider, which took a very long time to finish, but i was dedicated. I had a gaming pc. But i was no longer a kid. Time was of the essence.

I remember searching the android appstore on my phone, looking for something i could play at unplanned spare times, but couldnt find anything. Either the games were too basic, or filled with ads, or didnt have enough graphics, or the controls were off. I just couldnt find that balance, so i went back to PC gaming…back to soccer…with the friends.

You see playing Games when youre no longer a kid is different, and in Nigeria, its way more different, because apart from the fact that you have less time, It is hard to plan your life because of our Electrical Power System for the sake of this post lets call this system NEPA.

Believe it or not, it’s 2017 and over here, we still don’t have constant power supply. So, you can be watching the Uefa champions league match and NEPA goes off. The feeling of rage and disappointment can never be gotten used to. The reviews I had read never mentioned a scenario like this, so you can imagine the delight, when NEPA tripped off, and after the disappointment for about a second, I realised I could take the switch out of its dock and still continue to play.

This happened again at a friends house, I took my switch, so we could play some multi-player games. While playing power went out again, and I heard him sigh and hiss, and when I pulled out the switch from the dock, I could see the delight on his face, and a gasp from my second friend. In a country where power supply is not constant. The Switch is a Fantasy.

In a third world country, because of the power condition, which results to hours of heat, boredom, idleness and frustration. We tend to go out a lot. We call friends and then ask them if they have power, and let them know we are coming over (the called friend has no problem with this, since even he will feel bad if you come to share in his boredom).

BACK TO GAMING

The Nintendo Switch is a great system, I have some friends who don’t believe some current games such as Fifa 18, WWE and NBA 2k18 are all coming to the switch. I’ve done my research and I know that, it’s a little under powered than the PS4 but more powerful than the PS3. So I know it will get most of the current games.

I’m glad Nintendo brought a variety of play styles other consoles don’t have, such as, 1. Playing in portable mode. 2. Playing in TV mode. 3 playing in Table Top mode. Being able to carry it on the go is simply amazing. Cheapest price for it right now is on Jumia (Jumia First) for around N153k.

If you have any Questions, I’ll gladly answer them here (comments section) or here (Davinci4real@yahoo.com). My last food for thought is this. “If a particular game, came out on the PS4, Xbox and Nintendo Switch. Wouldn’t the Switch be the best console to buy the game on?

Nintendo Switch trailer: https://youtu.be/3c6MWsEE884