

Maybe I was just lucky but I've never had Joy-Con drift. It's a miracle my Joy-Cons even lasted six years. Is Nintendo's hybrid handheld/console hitting its ceiling with games like Tears of the Kingdom and Pokémon Scarlet/Violet? Absolutely, but I'm a hardcore subscriber to the Nintendo philosophy that less is more and how beautiful a texture wrapped around polygons is less important than a great story or relatable characters and how that makes you feel. I have owned my Nintendo Switch since launch day, which means March 3, 2017. and how I eventually repaired my Joy-Con for $6. Thus began my descent down into some deep rabbit holes about Joy-Cons at 3 a.m. Unfortunately, I didn't get very far because the L shoulder button on my left Joy-Con stopped working. (I like the physical carts, even if they're not as convenient or eco-friendly. But the FOMO was so strong this time - literally everyone and their mom, their grandma, their friggin' cats were playing Nintendo's latest masterpiece - that I caved and downloaded the game, going against my value of not purchasing a digital Nintendo game if I could own the cartridge version. That's perfectly fine for me because I already have plenty that I obsess about ( like tech). I just don't enjoy getting swept up in the hype and spoilers and memes.


It's not that I don't like The Legend of Zelda or anything.
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I rarely rush out to buy - or these days, download at midnight - a game on release day.
