Against all odds, I walked into a Target yesterday and got a Switch, right off the shelf! One of my brothers is going to buy the other-- the one that arrives on Tuesday-- from me.

I really like the system so far, although it looks silly as it's so wide due to the large bevel around the screen. "Breath of the Wild" is a fairly competent game loop-oriented open world game so far, even if it's not up there with the best I've played-- with "Mad Max" probably marking the high point. There are also some significant framerate issues in 900p when running in TV mode.

Overall, the graphics coming from the system look a lot like what I'm used to on my phone, which has a fairly powerful GPU-- so that's a good thing. Except unlike my phone, this thing has physical buttons!

I still can't shake the feeling that maybe I'd have been better off pouring this money into my PC; it's cool to have a handheld again-- first time for me since the PSP, really-- but I'm not sure the experience offers enough positive to make up for all of the major disadvantages when compared to my GTX 1070 / 4K TV combination. Am I really having more fun with a 900p, 20 fps Zelda title than I would with a 4K / 50-60 fps "Mass Effect: Andromeda"?

But, I'll give Bomberman a shot sometime today, plus review the list of upcoming games once again.