Thats a bit hyperbolic for sure. Yes Day 1 patches are more common, and often have a lot of fixes, features, or content; but the games are generally 100% playable without them. In fact I often forget to install Day 1 patches until I’ve played quite a bit of the game, and don’t generally notice much of a difference.

I agree, though I would take that a step further and say the worst thing about any competitive game is the meta. I despise the term “meta” and once someone brings up that term in a conversation, I pretty much ignore everything they say after that.

I understand where you are coming from, but disagree.

I cannot agree more. I am really trying to like it, since there isnt much else for the Switch at the moment, but its bland and boring. I am exactly in the same relative place in the game as you, and I find that I get more enjoyment out of 10 mins with Blaster Master than 6 hours with BotW. I havent picked it up in…

If the company you are applying for is going to try and treat you like garbage so much that you already feel the need to hide information from them, you should probably reconsider working there.

They are hard plastic, in fact its part of the same molded plastic as the rest of the unit with no seam. It even scratches like plastic (I did a small scratch test to verify) its absolutely plastic with no rubber at all except for the landing area.

I waited to reply until I could verify with mine and others and they are absolutely, positively, 100% NOT RUBBER. They are made of the exact same material as the outer hard shell. There is a very very small rubber part at the bottom, almost a “landing pad” of sorts but the entire rail is solid, hard, plastic.

I was very disappointed by the games released on the WiiU. I bought it not long after launch, and sold it after I got my Switch, with all 3 games that I bought for it in the last 3+ years. It was a PoS.

Additionally, I went home last night, and docked/undocked about 10 times (slowly and carefully), and every single time it hit the sides of the dock.

I would completely agree with you if, and only if, this was not a glaringly obvious potential problem. Sure, maybe this only affects a small number, or maybe too many have a screen protector so the actual number isn’t known right now, or maybe it won’t happen to the majority until everyone has had it for 3-4 months,…

I actually have a Switch, and I watch it very closely when I dock it, and it comes _very_ close to touching (and sometimes does) no matter how careful I am. I don’t let anyone in my house dock/undock the switch until I get a screen protector because of this.

I dont “think” its true, as a fellow Switch owner, I know its true. I watch the Switch _very_ _very_ carefully when I dock it, and even then, even pretending I am playing a game of Operation, it hits the sides of the dock more often than not.

In the many years that I have seen short stock launches, I have seen turn around in as early as a few days to a week (if they have enough held back for replacements, and not a lot of replacements) and I have seen months. Months isn’t an exaggeration, its based on real world observation, but it is the far end of the…

Its simple physics. The friction of plastic rubbing on plastic.

You are mistaken. There is _very_ little clearance between the screen and the dock (look inside where there are rails on either side that are very close to the screen). So little in fact that some people with glass screen protectors report that it makes it “snug” in the dock because the clearance is so small.

My dock has no rubber bits if any kind. Right out of the box its hard plastic against the screen.

Be _very_ careful with those pads, because they will collect dust over time and then absolutely scratch your screen worse than the dock would have.

If stock were readily available this would be good advice, but they are not, so that “free” replacement may take weeks to months to arrive.

This means nothing. Its just a canned PR response. What did you expect them to say: “Oh, damn, our bad. We designed the hardware poorly.” No company is going to do that. They are going to downplay it as much as possible.

I wasnt intending to be condescending, you have drawn false conclusions from my posts (like thinking I was talking about basements, or running wire down from the attic) so I attempted to clarify to avoid further miscommunication.