I'm sure the video will strike a cord with the non Switch owning N4G members.

Seems most of the users who do own one here seem quite happy with their purchase and are enjoying the system. The idiots....

there's certainly a few design flaws, there's no way you should be scratching it by putting it into its dock

the biggest problem has yet to come, once they start charging for online, the player base will tumble

I've been saying it ever since the leaks were verified. Switch will be a failure. Perhaps it will do marginally better than the Wii U, and it will likely see real success in Japan, but overall, it will fail. You saw the same thing with Wii U, the writing was on the wall early on, but it didn't stop the legions of Nintendo fans from being apologists instead of demanding more from Nintendo and holding them to the standard that they helped set years ago.

Nintendo for life, Mario for president!

More bait for the sony ponies there easy to get clicks from.

Is Horizon so boring that N4G has to focus on Switch and Zelda to make it feel more relevant? Nintendo is doing awesome and the Switch owners I know are sincerely happy even if the system has kinks to work out.

Yeah, all hardware releases have these vids and i'm fine with them. Show people what can happen when they buy one.
As long as people realize it's a small portion of all the people having that hardware.

Video commentator is a bit loud and aggressive imo but that's probably the dude's style.
Not fun to listen to. Anyway, i'll be waiting with buying a Switch till december. Maybe i'll skip this gen. Because i also think Nintendo is too thickheaded.

Some of the screen issues with pixels and broken screens is down to the rough use of the Joycons being put on/off it. Not that the gamers are rough, but some of them are sticking and not engaging/disengaging easily and as such require a small amount of pressure placed on them by the gamer, which is in turn causing the screen to be bent and twisted ever so slightly and that is causing damage within the LCD itself.
If you take any mobile phone and try and bend it, twist it so the screen flexes, you are going to end up with damaged pixels or complete failure over time, this is the very reason why mobile companies are spending a lot of time and money in flexible screens, not because they think bendy phones are the way forward, but so that the screen within a phone can be sat on in a back pocket, bent out of shape and they won't break or damage the screen.
Unfortunately it seems like Nintendo are using a solid LCD screen that is designed to remain rigid and in theory should be okay if the Joycons were clipping/sliding on easily enough, but clearly there is another design issue there.

Oh God. One more of these menstruating whine articles.

Normal people see Nintendo fan's blind loyalty
Nintendo fan's see normal people's blind hate
Everyone says everyone blowing everything out of proportion
Facts are fact, you paid $300 for a barebones system for Zelda and the system has hardware failures.
Reviewers all said Joycon had issues
Dead pixels reported and now systems bricking
Nintendo may have had their biggest launch ever, but that doesn't mean the system is successful if there are known reported issues
I cancelled my pre-order for the system. I got a PS4 Pro instead. I think the Wii U will be highly regarded five years from now.

I have one, but this time I researched and had to excavate through the bullshit PR nintendo and fanboys were concocting. I bought the switch as a portable console with the ability to play on the tv. I have money to spend and thats why I'm not completely disappointed in the hardware, but the design for several things just leave you scratching your head. I understand the drought that there will be until M8 (and thats a re-release, I may pass), and splatoon 2, but man is it a tough $500 pill to swallow for several people. I learned my lesson from no mans sky in believe devs about their game without actual live gameplay and theoretical BS, and I didnt join the wiiU train until a year later (so i missed that bs gratefully).

Nintendo appear to have confused things. They're trying to beat Microsoft at the game of -how to completely screw your brand and fan base over- instead of trying to beat Sony at being good at hardware and games. I think they beat MS at this as well. Instead of fking themselves ahead of launch, they got everyone excited, sold out of products everywhere, then let us slowly realise what a piece of sht their machine is, laughing all the way to the bank. Well done Nintendo, really, wellllll done *slow golf clap*

Dear Nintendo Haters:

Stolen video though. Sad.

Nintendo has a great concept for the swtich but they did rush it out. The design flaws are very unlike Nintendo. They seemed to have been in a point where to meet the dates they wanted they had to go with their current design of the system and dock.

This was a big risk and without the release of Zelda, this may have been a deathblow to Nintendo as far as consoles go. The switch will still be sold out everywhere for a good while. Nintendo will most likely come out with a new design in the next 6-12 months.

This will be akin to the situation with the DS and only having one control stick. Selling an addon to include another controller stick was ridiculous. Nintendo has not been making the best hardware decisions over the past decade, period.

Their games are their saving grace. For the haters out there, just wait until Switch 2.0. All consoles first versions have issues. The switch, being a portable/console mix, has too many. If I didn't have a decent job, I would have waited, but I wanted to pass my WiiU on to other family members to spread the Zelda love around.

Meanwhile the system is sold out and breaking records. Keep the delusion alive.

PlayStation fanboy for life but I buy every new system and 2 of them are 4K(PC)or close too(Pro)..... and have to say the switch has me absolutely pumped for the future of gaming. I bought one asap and don't regret it at all. Nintendo does need to become more open with their products but this is a good start. It is underpowered but if Nintendo can deliver and sell enough of these bad boys we will get dedicated software with the focus on gameplay which in turn will help the industry. Things do need to go right for this to happen and if Nintendo doesn't play ball they will keep failing until their financial resources dry up. On the defects of the system; I do think they could have had better QA. Screen should not scratch on the dock..... a massive oversight. As is the interference with radio signals. Overall one of the best products Nintendo has released ever but that mainly falls on the shoulders of it being a masterly designed handheld.

This is something I have to agree with. It's like Nintendo rushed it without taking it slow.

Oh great, another Youtube ranter who needs to swear a lot and act like an idiot to get his point across.

Wonder if he ball ached about RROD on 360, now that was one Royal fuck up of engineering design
on Microsofts part. My switch running lovely get over it, unfortunately hardware does fail I expect my snes, megadrive to still out live modern hardware.

Jesus whats up with this click bait articles, EVERY console at launch as its fair share of problems even the now considered amazing ps4 came out with a shitload of problems, actually 1% of the initial userbase of the ps4 at launch had problems with their consoles ( FACT FROM SONY REPRESENTATIVE http://www.cinemablend.com/...

And I only mentioned the ps4, because i dont own or ever payed much atention to xbox one, that I am pretty sure should be around the same, but sure, lets all crucify the switch, the only console that launched with problems.

This being said, I dont plan to buy a switch soon, because the portability of it doesnt fit me ( I dont need it) but if I spent alot of time out of home or using public transportations, switch would be a day 1 for me.

Anyone defending this prick and his unprofessional way of communicating is just a delusional fanboy who gets off on trying to downplay Nintendo and its success. There is a constructive way to be objective without behaving like a manchild who I seriously think needs a tampon ASAP.

It's true that every new piece of hardware comes with issues... But not this many.

Look, I bought a switch launch day and I love it. Playing zelda, and what a game. Waiting for MK8 and then, Mario Oddyssey.

If we don't support the console now, it wont sell. If it doesn't sell, third parties wont make games for it, and you all know, no games, no further sales.

Now before you guys think im some Nintendo fanboy, ill have you all know im an Xbox fanboy. But more than that, I am a gamer.

I have a Xbox one (Halo LE version), a PS4 (MSG 5 version), and now the switch. My Gamertag is PAPPY2004, and same PSN ID.

I love games. I love playing zelda at the moment, but once ME:A is out, i'l be playing that, and then move on to MK8.

We need all 3 consoles as each provide something unique in their own right. Sony has its awesome exclusives, and i'm looking forward to most of them (GoW, TLoU2), Nintendo have their exclusives (Mario, Mario Kart), and MS have their exclusives (SoD 2, Crackdown 3).

I will buy all of these and enjoy playing them, because that is what i do as a gamer. i play games.

Wow dumb, Nintendo could have keyed the top and bottom of the joy slides, so they only could go in one way. Real easy Industrial design 101! Kids (and adults) are gonna jam these all the time.

The early adopters are getting burned on this one...

What is the % of systems that are faulty??? None is ok but no product is prefect. There's problems with EVERY launch of ANY product... This is obvious a hit piece... Good job on click bait.

Wow Nintendo fans are sickening. You guys really need to get help the delusion and denial is off the charts. You guys really take the cake on most annoying fanbase, Nintendo effed up in a inexcusable way with this console like crap get over yourselves you should be complaining to them to be better not accept their ignorance and carelessness. If it's not nintendo's crappy practices that they been doing since the wii to push gamers away there's always you guys to disgust us to not want to be apart of Nintendo's community.

It's really poor argumentation, actually. He says that the people who are having no problems with the Nintendo Switch are not representative of the entire Switch-owning population (a good point), but he fails to show how the people who are having problems with the Nintendo Switch ARE representative of the entire Switch-owning population. So he fails to address that we have no idea, and certainly not from a compilation video, how many people are and aren't having problems with their console. All we know is that some people are and some people aren't.

He bases his whole 8:37 video on the idea that most or at least a significant portion of people are having serious problems with their Switch console, yet fails to show that it's the case. He's arguing on an unproven premise. It's a fundamental argument flaw.

It's a great device that has such ridiculous flaws, can't believe it has been launched in the state its in. I have it and enjoy it but it's so frustrating and missing so many simple feature and has silly design flaws.

Don't agree that you shouldn't buy day one though, if everyone done that there would be no consoles. And what we seeing with the Switch is not the norm for a launch.

Nintendo doing well always irritates the haters and pessimists.

I have three other friends that have switches and none of them are having this issue. Now this is my first nintendo since the Gamecube. But it works the way I expected. Every console launch always come with some issues. Whether it's software or stripped down OS theirs always somthing. But this video seems to be blowing it way out of proportion. The only thing I found as a negative was all the damn accessories. But every company is guilty of that.

I am quite happy with my Switch, thank you. Great system, a lot of fun, and obviously a lot of engineering and thought went into it. Most of those doing the complaining here never intended to buy one anyway, so their opinion means squat to me. Obviously a bunch of folks on this site who are butthurt and worried their little plastic box is in some kind of jeopardy because of it.

You would think people are hysterical in the streets over the massive amount of issues the Switch has by reading this site. You guys crack me up.Either buy one or dont, but otherwise you would be well served to just shut up, those of us enjoying it are literally laughing at your stupidity.

Click bait garbage. As soon as someone refers to another fanbase as "apologists" you know they're just a fanboy with an agenda.

I agree with what this guy has said.

I'm getting a switch, I have one PS4 that died on me but I got it replaced and niece had hers fail but I knew it was a hard drive issue and so I fixed that for her and two of my 360's failed as well and one PS3 with a yellow light issue. Things like this happen and things will get fixed, I couldn't watch the video because it was unnecessary To talk like that and he sounds mad and I only watched a few seconds lol, that is why my children and I don't game on just one console, if one dies I can send that out and I can just game on another system.

The real problem with the switch is not the dead pixels or faulty units, but the fact that this system has no other games worth owning other than Zelda until Mario Oddysey comes out. It's not worth its price tag, and I say that as a total Zelda fanboy. Nintendo is once again unprepared for a new generation, and the switch will have dismal 3rd party support yet again for a nintendo console, so it'll be a long wait between decent games to play just like it was with the Wii U. $300 to play Zelda?...blow me.

why not quit crying and play the games you want to play on other systems and let people have the fun they want to anywhere else

I agree with everything he said in the video fanboys are going to be salty but it's true. The guy it's not making anything up he speaks the truth.

Japanese design sometimes seems to be bizarrely obtuse. Like things you would think they would catch immediately they just leave in. Same is true for a lot of Japanese games with convoluted non user friendly interfaces and such.

Nintendo fanboys are comparable to religious apologists/fanatics in their delusional commitment to this company. The truth is that the Switch is a trash console with an even trashier fan-base (see comments below. One idiot below even makes a virtue of not watching the video and commenting on it). Have fun playing your broken piece of shit unsupported potato you sheep.

Nintendo makes shit hardware...lol yipes

Fan boys just love to hate Nintendo. I have a switch, a ps4 and a gaming pc. Right now I'm pspending 70% of my gaming time on the switch, which works flawlessly. I wish, instead of hating, people would celebrate the achievements of the switch and acknowledge that it is a great gaming machine, even if it isn't able to display games with the same graphical fidelity as the other consoles. Let's not forget, pc beats everything in that regard anyway.

9 minutes of pointing out all the wrong things. This industry has been playing it safe with formulas for years now. Nintendo tries to mix it up A LITTLE with the Switch and we all lose our minds. You get the industry you pay for, and that's mediocre trash. Sure my ps4 and Xbox see a lot of up time. But not like my 360 or PS2 did. Hell a lot of people I know are going to PC simply because a lot of games on their are trying new things. Particularly with Kickstarter. We literally need to pay people and give them permission to try something new these days. And we crucify Nintendo for doing it before we ask.

The Switch, regardless of its myriad of problems is new. Beats the hell out of a square box playing predictable AAA trash.

i want to wait for the hype to die down anyhow, in 6-12 months the switch will be $250 with a game, then it will be worth getting...

Nintendo uber fans: they like eating sheet and bending reality since the N64 era

I liked The Order 1886

Right... so a handful of relatively isolated issues, blown way out of proportion. Mean the things a calamity... No. far from it. They sold over a million of the things. if you think every last one is going to roll off the assembly line perfectly, you're a bloody idiot.

But like all of these things you don't hear from the majority of perfectly happy customers. you hear from the few dozen people who aren't.

This isn't like the 360.. remember RROD. How about the original PSone that had the laser for the drive placed right next to the power supply so it would short.

As far as blue tooth interference. The PS4 had the exact same problem at launch, and they made basically the same suggestions.

The first Xbox i bought died straight out the box. lasted all of two hours. I didn't piss and whinge as if every console was bust. These things happen. that's why you keep your receipts. Sometimes, with the best will in the world there are duds.

But this is Nintendo, they live on a golden pedestal. for the first time in what, 30 years. they rush out some hardware with teething problems, lets all scream from the hills about how this is the end of days. And not just more BS from the modern gaming industry.

Faulty products......

it happens? Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, Sony, philips.....occasionally get faulty products.

as for that one at the start with the screen thats been dropped. Worked almost 2 decades in Electronic Retail, i know a broken screen when i see one.

Haven't we already seen this video...? All there is now is a guy talking about what we already know from the video...

Can someone please explain to me how we are not supposed to troll here yet this entire video seems like its trolling, also and even more confusing I got a warning notice from a mod the other day for using the F word one time, get about twenty two seconds into the video and behold the hypocrisy. I just dont get it, this site really confuses me sometimes, maybe its not the site itself but mods who seem to make up personal TOS on the spot.

The damn moderators on N4G aren't bias at all. Opinion articles need to go. It's spread too much poison. How is this 'news 4 gamers?' Opinions articles aren't news...

Well... at least he's not making stuff up about the Switch to b*tch about? Like people have been doing lately?

Remember all the videos with malfunctioned PS4's and Xbox One's when they launched?

I own Zelda on the Wii U and it's performance is terrible. Stuttering 20fps at 720p is simply not acceptable in 2017. Graphics matter, Nintendo apologists and they can keep the Switch and it's terrible "mobile gaming". I hope this thing tanks and Nintendo never makes another console. Their hardware is atrocious. 2005 specs for a 2017 machine. Horrid.

Thanks, Nintendo for letting your abysmal hardware ruin what could have easily been GOTY. No game that stutters down to 20fps deserves a 10/10. It's barely playable let alone GOTY....

This fellow is way too upset. I think there is a psychosocial issue with him regarding this subject.The vast majority of Switch users have NOT had these problems and this is why it is selling like hotcakes as I type. Even if one does not preorder a product that still does not mean there is no potential for something to malfunction out of the box. So many people do not treat there electronics with respect and care. Drink too many Red Bulls or Mountain Dews and rush to put something in wherever it goes and there is potential for damage. I think this guy needs to find the silver lining in that black cloud over his head. Take a chill pill man and lay off the java!!

Lots of companies don't consider dead pixels an issue, it's wrong but it's not Nintendo exclusive. Don't tell me what I should buy day 1 you pompous prick.

Every company says a small number of dead pixels are normal. It's been like that for years. Best thing to do is take it back to the store but if you get dead pixels after the store warranty, you're screwed.

But Nintendo did make A LOT of bad design choices with the Switch.

He's completely right. Zelda is only a bandage over the wound. In a month or two when everyone's done with It, what the hell are people going to play on the switch? 3rd party games that are years old? Nintendo clearly haven't thought this through. It's going to be fun watching this unfold. Nintendo fans will continue to wank over Nintendo no matter what they do.