Why Minecraft on the Nintendo Switch SUCKS…

Minecraft is currently the world’s most popular game and you can play it on quite literally any modern system whether that’s a computer phone Xbox or the subject of today’s video the Nintendo switch being the newest console that Nintendo’s produced I’d say it’s pretty Innovative as they tend to do

It’s essentially a tablet with controllers on the side for you to play all the hottest new games on anywhere you’d like at the same time though it’s a tablet with controllers on the side free to play all of the hottest new games on as in your switch will get very

Hot if you try and play any demanded game on it and if you’re expecting good performance on any game made in the past two years well boy do I have news for you this video is going to be a criticism of the Nintendo switch with a focus on Minecraft being a game that

Should probably run better on the switch than it actually does we’ll discuss things like performance user friendliness and if you can even be good at Minecraft on the switch so if you’re interested let’s get started the official slogan for the Nintendo switch console is play anywhere anytime

With anyone this is at least somewhat true it’s portable so you can take it anywhere and if you own it you can play it anytime you want you can also play with anyone assuming they’re in the same room as you or you buy an online membership for four dollars a month but

That’s besides the point look for as good of an idea as the Nintendo switch was meant to be it really wasn’t executed well going back to my point that I made in the beginning it’s pretty much just the same as a tablet if you take the mini controllers called

Joy-cons off the sides it literally is a tablet touch screen and all let’s dive a bit deeper into the problems that the Nintendo switch faces when trying to run Minecraft overall the Nintendo switch is an extremely underpowered system if you’re expecting to get good FPS numbers on the

Switch as compared to literally any other device that runs Minecraft Bedrock severely lower your expectations immediately I’m too lazy and dumb to figure out how to get actual FPS numbers on the switch but if you have eyes you can see what I mean this is the average switch experience when you’re playing on

Servers or in an intense world now I’ve tried to look into the actual specs of the switch to see what type of Hardware it has but that doesn’t really seem to be out there at least in a format that a normal person can understand the CPU and

GPU that it has is apparently a customized Nvidia Tegra processor what is a Tegra processor again well according to Wikipedia Tegra is a system on a chip series developed by Nvidia for mobile devices such as smartphones personal digital assistants and mobile Internet devices boys I think we’ve

Figured out why the switch runs like a bad Android tablet it’s literally got a smartphone processor in it here’s a few more fun facts about the performance of the switch which system for a lot of users Minecraft on the switch takes an incredibly long time to load what you’re

Seeing right now is a video that a viewer sent to me and it’s on 12 times speed the entire clip is like three minutes long and that’s just how long the switch takes sometimes Also the battery life on the switch is kind of meh it’s not great not horrible

Personally I almost always play in dock mode connected to my computer just so I can use the computer screen instead of the tiny switch screen but for people that play in undocked mode I’ve gotten reports of about three to four hours all of this talk about the specs though is

To say that you could probably buy a system that’s about equivalent to the switch for much less money I have a cheap Android tablet that I mainly use for testing Android stuff that I bought for a hundred dollars you could easily find a wireless controller for twenty to

Thirty dollars and Minecraft on the Google Play Store costs 7.50 as compared to thirty dollars on the Nintendo eShop if you’re gonna get roughly the same performance on both of them it’s better to pay 140 dollars as opposed to four hundred dollars now the specs of the

Switch are not the only problems that it has I was also able to get a list of some pretty major bugs that affect it like for example sometimes when you load up Minecraft on the switch you’ll randomly get an invalid game session meaning you either need to completely

Close the game and reopen it or sign out of your Microsoft account and sign back in both of these take a long time to do there’s also a bug where sometimes the server page and maybe even the friends page doesn’t load and the fix to that is you guessed it restart Minecraft another

Bug is that sometimes you’ll start up the game and you’re just logged out of your Microsoft account to fix this you have to remote connect with a different device which again requires signing in through Microsoft now the fixes to all of these bugs that I mentioned aren’t particularly difficult but it’s just the

Fact that because the switch is so poorly made that you have to either take three minutes to restart the game or sign into your Microsoft account for the 5 billionth time means that they can get pretty annoying after a while but all of these performance issues and all of

These bugs all kind of stem from one common thing it’s the fact that Mojang didn’t really design Minecraft to run on this switch or on low end devices for that matter I mean yes at the end of the day Minecraft Bedrock Edition is a port of the mobile version of the game but

Since Minecraft’s added their new rendering engine called render dragons the game performance on low end devices is tanked and since we already know that the switch is essentially comparable to a mid to low end tablet I think it can be safely said that Minecraft is definitely not designed with the switch

In mind at the moment I also have a few more gripes about the switch that are more applicable to consoles in general as opposed to just the switch I touched on it earlier but for example you have to pay 3.99 a month to be able to play

Online on the Nintendo switch if you don’t you’re only able to play split screen or on local networks granted Nintendo switch online does cost less than Xbox Live gold or Ps plus with both of those being 10 a month as opposed to switch on lines four dollars a month if

For some reason you didn’t know though assuming you owned the game already it’s literally free to play online on PC or mobile I’ve just never understood game console’s obsession with making you pay to play online when the games already cost more anyways it doesn’t make sense

Also on the switch and on consoles in general you can’t use custom skins and you can’t use custom texture packs the only way you can get either of those is by buying them with mine coins on the marketplace which once again costs real world money you also can’t join servers

That aren’t featured on the switch or other consoles before I get 10 billion comments saying um well actually you can yes I know you can I have played non-featured servers on the switch however it’s a really roundabout way to do it and the average player isn’t going

To know how to I understand why consoles don’t let you play non-featured servers or use custom skins or Texture Packs it’s because of moderation but at the same time why is it okay for mobile and PC to be able to it’s just inconsistencies like that that have

Never really made sense to me so to Pivot a little bit can you even be good at Minecraft while playing on the switch the simple answer to this is yes there’s always going to be people that Excel on a certain platform that they’ve played on for years but it goes deeper than

That the average player isn’t ever going to be that good so what if I 1v1 an average player how will that go I got one of my YouTuber friends named stridwell to 1v1 neon switch and I’d say he’s pretty average as well here’s how that went

Why are you why are you actually good am I actually good just just better than me wow cool let’s go all right Chatham butterflying the paddle and it’s not really working I feel like I aim worse while butterflying yeah I oh how many hearts do you have four and a half overall the

Fight against stride went about as well as expected we traded Blues next up though I wanted to gauge how it would be if I win up against someone that’s actually good at the switch so I got a really good switch player from my twitch chat named Killer Hawk and we did some

Of the same 1V ones that I did with stride surely I would get absolutely destroyed here right right foreign Right I’m shocking that up as a lucky win I don’t really know what happened killer doesn’t really know what happened and I proceeded to get destroyed in all of the 1V ones that we did after that yeah I can’t aim on a controller at all dude I’m just getting rolled

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah it was it was a good run oh I’m dead I’m dead okay look I also want to be one of the YouTuber named Jason who plays on Nintendo switch and that also went about as well as you’d expect Yeah all in all I think you can be safe we said that you can be good while playing on switch but the problems the switch has results in huge limitations as opposed to people that play at other consoles like the Xbox or Playstation so whose fault is it for making Minecraft

On the switch be perceived as really bad I think arguments can be made here for both Mojang and Nintendo Mojang has made their game Run terribly on low end devices you’re not gonna get good performance if your device has bad specs that’s just how it is at the same time

Though Nintendo has made their system essentially equivalent in performance to a low end tablet like what did you expect was gonna happen something I realized throughout making this video though is what if that’s kind of the point what if it’s no one’s fault because the switch is intended to be

Something portable that you can play games on Wherever Whenever and with whoever you want assuming you pay four dollars a month I guess that’s kind of the beauty of the switch you can’t do that but at the same time why not just play Minecraft on your phone I want to

Give a huge thank you to killer Hawk and Jason for helping me with all the questions I had with this video I seriously wouldn’t have been able to make without them also if you found this video interesting consider checking out the video that I posted before this

Where I discuss why I think Minecraft servers are having a rough time in 2022. either way that’s gonna be it for me today thank you all for watching and I will see you in the next video peace out