What's nice about Nintendo Switch is you can play it at home using your TV. But you can also turn this into a handheld device that you can take anywhere just by sliding the controllers into the Nintendo Switch.
It's difficult to play with a lot of light falling on the screen due to glare issues. For example, you probably will not be able to play outside in the sun, since the game is simply not visible.
They have stuff like the Joy-Con charging grip that lets you still play even while you're still charging and the Joy-Con Wheel, which looks pretty much like a driving wheel of a car for those racing games.
You can use it as a stationary console with your TV or transform it into a portable gaming device in literally seconds. You will keep all the data and can continue your game on the go.
Nitendo Switch is light and feels comfortable in hand. It doesn't cause any wrist strain. It also has a kickstand that folds out from the back of the console, so you can put it on the table.
This sounds obvious, but if you really think about it, this is a much rarer feature than it should be. Console makers were once praised for their innovation, bringing new ideas into the industry, but today, we just get two companies essentially making prebuilt PCs and competing with each other for benchmarks, and a third company taking risks and making truly unique gaming machines.
If you are not into playing Zelda, there's not that much for you to do with this console right now. The game lineup is not comparable to Xbox One or PS4. The console is not backwards compatible, so you will not be able to play your old games on it either.
If you're playing for example Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, you can expect 3.5 hours of gaming before you have to charge the console. Many other portable consoles last longer.
Cost less than most systems of this generation, though this is a portable and is comparatively priced when taking that into account. In the long run, this is also a less expensive system as the games are cheaper over other consoles as well.
The Wii U has applications for Hulu, Netflix, and YouTube. While pretty much every device supports those services, what makes the Wii U unique is that the gamepad is a much better interface for choosing media than fumbling with the controller.
A great feature for YouTube is that it allows you to search for the next video to play on the gamepad without interrupting the video on screen, making it the best platform for YouTube parties.
If you have a PC, you already have most of the things that Playstation 4 and XBox One offer. Many games for those platforms will receive PC ports, often with better graphics, better controls, and more options.
The PC, however, tends to be weak when it comes to local multiplayer, and in genres like platformers and fighting games that benefit from a standardized, gamepad-like controller. These are the exactly things the Wii U excels at - the Wii U's controls allow for interesting and flexible multiplayer games, with symmetric or asymmetric gameplay, using classic gamepad, motion controls, or some combination of the two, and Nintendo's highly regarded exclusive franchises provide a solid collection of content in these genres.
The best feature of the Wii U and all Nintendo devices is Nintendo games. Nintendo is one of the best developers in the world, and have an unbeatable track record for incredibly fun, clever, and polished games, and as always, they're only available on Nintendo platforms.
The online multiplayer is free, which is great for those not looking to have any type of monthly or yearly fee attached to their gaming console in order to get online gaming.
The gamepad's extra screen allows for some cool unique features. It allows you to play games off screen, allowing you to keep playing if someone else wants to use the TV.
Nintendo has some of the best hot-seat multiplayer games outside of the world of first-person shooters. With New Super Mario Bros. U, Super Mario 3D Land, Nintendo Land, and the upcoming Super Smash Bros. U, Mario Kart 8, and Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, Nintendo already has some of the best hot-seat multiplayer options of the next gen consoles.
Nintendo has some of the best hot-seat multiplayer games outside of the world of first-person shooters. With New Super Mario Bros. U, Super Mario 3D Land, Nintendo Land, and the upcoming Super Smash Bros. U, Mario Kart 8, and Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, Nintendo already has some of the best hot-seat multiplayer options of the next gen consoles.
Many games designed for multiple platforms, for example PS4 or PC (as well as X1), have to be upscaled when deployed to X1 due to lack of raw graphical power.
Even the demos of the games shown at the unveiling shows that any type of console quality game is going to be too taxing for the system, all running at only 30fps. Adding to that, the majority of console ports for the system are years old which shows that it is pretty obvious how limiting the system will be.
As the PC-Platform constantly evolves, so does your machine. It is a long-term solution as you can always replace older hardware with newer too keep your system up-to-date.
The system still needs a keyboard or a mouse to comfortably configure the underlying Windows or Linux system.(It also works with a Steam Controller and the virtual keyboard)
A PC is much cheaper than a console since you don't have to reinvest every few years in to a new console generation that is incompatible with you current one.
If you use SteamOS or a WindowsPC that is configured to directly boot into Steam BigPicture it's now very hard to use the PC now for other tasks than gaming.
To use a Windows PC as a Steam machine you might need some custom tweaks like:
Windows Explorer(default shell) must be replaced with Steam Big Picture
Windows autologin must be configured
Steam user needs full Windows administrator rights
Note: Some PC manufacturers already sell preconfigured PCs that directly boot into Steam.
Needs a full Windows license. There might be other options as using SteamOS, Linux or MacOS instead of Windows. however they all have less hardware and software support than Windows.
Although it is possible to spend many thousands of pounds on a PC, building a PC for the same price as a console will result in better graphics quality and responsiveness on similar games
Nintendo Wii and DS games, as well as games from PlayStation 2 and earlier, can often be found online. They will run on a relatively low-end PC, and can be played with better graphics than on the original device.
Unlike the PS4 Pro, but like the Xbox One X, the Xbox One S plays 4K Blu Ray movies. So if you're a huge movie buff with a 4K TV, the XBox One S is a good choice.