EPTWARNING - A LOT OF NEGATIVITY!
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System is clean, fast and the UI is simple.
Setup was fast and simple.
The good:
-Battery life is decent enough, I only get to play it around 2 hours outdoor max and it still has around 65% with full brightness and wifi off.
-Monitor quality is decent. Good viewing angle and saturation. Brightness can be better but pretty solid (day light at noon in shades is still playable-ish)
-Only gets slightly warm
-Dock mode transition is extremely smooth.
-Speaker is OK good.
-The weight is good enough for long session.
And below is all the negativity:
Incomplete:
The estore is not opened yet in Hong Kong.
There is no video/music playback capability.
No alarm no nothing. (not tested photo viewing yet)
Other than gaming, there is literally nothing else you can do with it at the moment.
Awkwardness:
-The touch screen works perfectly. But games are not designed to in-cooperate with touch screen, because there is a dock mode and your TV is not touch based.
-The stand mode sounds perfect in paper, but the stand at the back is extremely weak, it is actually a very thin plastic and not to mention it is only on one side.
It cannot even stand well on the soft cloth I used in the photo.
Also the monitor will be extremely low, you have to have a table with good height to use this stand mode.
-it is WIDE, way too big to hold in one hand. It is however perfect for stand mode.
-the dock is cheap plastic and has a big gap, meaning you can scratch that monitor very easily. Grab a good screen protector
-At the moment, it appears there is no way to turn on the switch in dock mode with the joycon stick.
-No way to charge the joycon without the dedicated port unless you put into the switch. The joycon dock is merely a plastic dock that holds them together and shows battery with no ability to charge.
-I am happy they have the 2 side buttons but it is very difficult to use them.
The bad BAD:
Zelda lags. and it lags frequently. And it lags in particular in dock mode. (but handheld also has some lag, but not nearly as frequent)
There is 100% guarantee lag in two of three below scenarios:
1. Grassy
2. Monster (1 will introduce lag)
3. Use arrow or go into weapon selection or going into or out from menu
I am beginning to think this is CPU related rather than GPU but I cannot confirm.
The biggest problem is that it does not only occur in boss battle (which has more shiny particles or physics), it happens in random encounter as well.
Sometimes the lag can last around 5 seconds in one random encounter, and can dip down to low 20s FPS.
Boss battle can be quite laggy as well, so far I have fought Steppe Talus, and most of the fight was in mid 20s and drop to low 20s when using arrow.
It also occurs sometimes just passing by some locations with some grass like the forest. Try blowing up trees in those area and FPS can drop to mid 20s.
There is also a weird control scheme.
To move, you use the left stick as expected. To change the ability or weapon quickly, you have to use the buttons below the left stick.
And the buttons are quite far down due to joycon design, it is quite a finger twister to use.
(but hey, monster hunter on PSP was pretty damn difficult and we got over it)
Verdict:
I highly recommend everyone to hold off their purchase and wait a little longer.
The whole concept is awesome and I can see the charm but there is a high possibility that you will be getting a good *portable* gaming device that has lower performance on the TV.
I suspect Nintendo will eventually add a mode that let you choose the output resolution for dock mode for better frame rate.
I can't believe nintendo went for this route as well. Splatoon 2, mario kart will be both pretty useless without it 
