{"id":4466,"date":"2017-03-06T15:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T22:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/how-does-nintendo-switch-actually-stack-up-at-a-party\/"},"modified":"2017-03-06T15:00:35","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T22:00:35","slug":"how-does-nintendo-switch-actually-stack-up-at-a-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/how-does-nintendo-switch-actually-stack-up-at-a-party\/","title":{"rendered":"How does Nintendo Switch actually stack up at a party?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“So, doctor<\/a> are you planning to\u00a0take that Nintendo Switch to any\u00a0rooftop parties?”<\/p>\n

Pretty much every time I talk about Nintendo’s\u00a0new game system, here<\/a> I hear some version\u00a0of this question. It’s annoying, troche<\/a> and it’s Nintendo’s fault. The weird home-portable hybrid system has an equally weird advertising campaign attached, full of hip, 20-something men and women refusing to put their game systems down<\/a> when obligations arise. Pick-up basketball game, birthday party, dog needs to pee\u2014better bring the Switch every time.<\/p>\n

The system is now officially in stores, and the launch has been met with another wave of\u00a0“social Switch” ads<\/a>. But, man,\u00a0nobody<\/em> has invited me to a rooftop yet, let alone one whose party is served by\u00a0a hipster, bowtie-wearing bartender.\u00a0Even so, I persevere.\u00a0I decided to grab my pre-ordered hardware, a bunch of controllers, and a few friends to test the new console in the kind of loud group settings that it just might be appropriate for (conveniently, this allows us to\u00a0also expand on some concepts touched upon in Kyle Orland’s lengthy system review<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“So, doctor are you planning to\u00a0take that Nintendo Switch to any\u00a0rooftop parties?” Pretty much every time I talk about Nintendo’s\u00a0new game system, here I hear some version\u00a0of this question. It’s annoying, troche and it’s Nintendo’s fault. The weird home-portable hybrid system has an equally weird advertising campaign attached, full of hip, 20-something men and women… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t