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  • Nintendo’s exclusives are where the Switch really shines. Unfortunately, they’re expensive. I’ll echo the DekuDeals recommendation for finding sales.

    Other Nintendo titles that are worthwhile, aside from the obvious Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom and depending on your tastes:

    • Super Mario Odyssey
    • Mario Kart 8
    • Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
    • Animal Crossing New Horizons
    • Splatoon 3 (2 is good too, but 3 is an improvement and more active)
    • Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze
    • Pikmin (the whole series)
    • Metroid Dread
    • Metroid Prime Remastered
    • Fire Emblem Three Houses
    • Pokemon Legends Arceus

    There are also tons of great indie games that play well on Switch (especially handheld):

    • Hades
    • Dead Cells
    • Hollow Knight
    • Slay the Spire
    • Into the Breach
    • Shovel Knight


  • I’m extrinsically motivated, but my definition of “extrinsic” is pretty loose. I’ll do things that aren’t necessary to beat the game (I don’t even need the game to be “beatable”). As long as I’m finishing something and getting a reward for it, I’m content.

    I’m having a great time doing side content in Tears of the Kingdom: completing as many shrines and side quests as I can, hoarding materials for armor upgrades, etc. Those are optional objectives that you can truly complete. However, I don’t spend much time experimenting with Ultrahand.

    Similarly in Minecraft, I liked accumulating resources in survival mode, but I bounced off of creative mode.

    EDIT: apparently my Lemmy app went haywire and posted this about 8 times. Very sorry.


  • Out of those, application performance class is the one you want. Even better is a real-world random read benchmark.

    • The capacity standard isn’t super helpful. Everything from 64GB to 2TB is SDXC, which is supported.
    • The Steam Deck only uses UHS-I. It’ll work with UHS-II and UHS-III cards, but they won’t have any meaningful benefits.
    • Pretty much any decent microSD Card in 2023 is class 10. If it’s anything else, that’s a red flag.
    • Higher UHS speed class and video speed class are probably better, but they’re measuring write performance. For playing games, random read performance is far more important.