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Why I bought a Nintendo Switch

Post-purchase justification

I missed a supporter post this past week, so here's one to make up for it. Apologies!

I am normally late to every console party: I bought an Xbox 360 four or five years after it was first released, a PS2 ten years after its launch, and those are just the consoles I bothered with at all. The reason is that I own a PC, and any time I do buy a console, it tends to sit unused for long months at a time. I've barely played my 3DS, for example.

I have no expectations that the Nintendo Switch will be any different, but I bought one anyway.

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