Parent of two kids planing to sell my Switch and buy Series S

Submitted by Salty-Preparation-78 t3_z02abu in consoles

I have two kids 6 and 8 years old. I’ve buyed almost every switch game that’s suitable for kids. It was only two games that they really fell for, Luigis Mansion 3 and Mario Odyssey. So we finished both game twice and that’s it. Games like Mario Kart, Mario Party Superstars and even Mario 3D World is not good for couch coop because it’s kind of ”VS games” making the kids angry when they lose. Games like Lego is so laggy and blurry on the Switch so it’s pretty much unplayable.

Series S on the other hand, you can play litteraly every game you want with them thanks to the co-pilot function. And the Lego games don’t lag. Maybe the Switch have more games for kids, but when you played the best coop games already (Kirby and the Forgotten Land, Mario 3D World, Luigis Mansion and so on) there’s not much left to do. Nintendo only release Pokemon games that my kids hate, and they barely even do 30 fps anyway. The last Mario game that they made is 5 years old, last DK game and Mario 3D World is lazy ports from the Wii U.

The problem is that Nintendo never release any new games, and when they do you have to play coop in 20 fps. Am i stupid if I sell the Switch and buy Series S instead? What you think?

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Nawara_Ven t1_ix39wix wrote

The Xbox Series consoles simply have more co-op/multiplayer games, (for kids and beyond) and in greater variety, than any other console (helped in part by having more than two generations' worth of backwards compatibility).

If you were restricting yourself to just first-party Nintendo games, you were always in for a bad time as yeah, they're few and far between.

If performance and more game variety are your key desires, then this choice to change it up seems pretty straightforward.

A vital question, though... are you sure your kids like games if they don't play what you get them, or they just get angry or whatever?

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Salty-Preparation-78 OP t1_ix3alwu wrote

Replying to Nawara_Ven (#589,148)

They like games, we had a blast with It takes two and Goat Simulator when I borrowed my friends Xbox. They liked some coop games on the Nintendo too, but they are so few and the replay value is not very good. So after they finished the most AAA games (Kirby Mario etc) the games just collecting dust. And it’s not that fun to have to wait a couple of years until they release next Mario Odyssey game if you know what I mean. Nintendo maybe drops one game per year that’s good for couch coop, then you play it for a couple of days then you have to wait another year for the next game.

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Nawara_Ven t1_ix3bzl8 wrote

Replying to Salty-Preparation-78 (#589,197)

Sounds like you have all the data you need then. The only (minor) pitfall with a Series S is that one can't buy actual games as gifts for kids, as opposed to gift cards/codes, but that might be an academic issue at worst.

I'd recommend branching out with the game selection too; if you restrict yourself to only first-party titles in terms of Microsoft published stuff, you're going to have an even worse time than you were when depending on just first-party Nintendo offerings, in terms of waiting for releases.

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klljmnnj t1_ix3pja6 wrote

If you have a lot of nintendo games you can finance most of series s just by selling games you don't play. They keep value very well.

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QueasyBrief5498 t1_ix4k34r wrote

Replying to klljmnnj (#590,290)

Agree. The series S second hand at GameStop are so cheap. If OP has hard copies of the switch games they could get rid of the ones the kids won’t play and just keep the switch around as an extra.

The switch is really great for car trips because it has two controllers with the system “built in” and charges via USB C. It’s just great as an extra.

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FlikXCL t1_ixjlpv5 wrote

100 percent series s is 199 rn and with game pass ultimate is like a dream

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