Topic: Would you do a lot of traveling with your Switch, or would you prefer to stick to a 3DS?

I have somewhat big hands. Especially compared the the GBA Micro. I mean, seriously. The entire thing fits in the palm of my hand. Not a problem if the shoulder buttons are an "occasional" thing I need to press. But if I need to use those, the d pad, and the A and B buttons at the same time I end up bracing the bottom of the system with my ring finger. Which means that the cart is getting at least a little pressure applied due to the location of the cartridge slot.

Of course, that also means that the Switch's joy cons feel comfortable when using them. I frequently find myself using them without the controller grip for games that don't have motion controls. I'd initially been concerned about their size.

Pretty much everything gets searched at airports, not just backpacks. And, yeah, large bags of any kind — again, not just backpacks — are generally banned from any controlled public venue like a stadium.

But outside of those two scenarios, nobody will look twice at you for walking around with a backpack. Over the past several years, I've traveled to a number of different cities across the US where I wore a backpack around town and never had a single problem. Neither did any other pedestrian I saw wearing one.

Granted, most often it's a teenage girl or young adult woman with a tiny tiny backpack that might barely hold a wallet and a set of keys. Which are kind of silly, if you ask me.

Some of the newer planes do. I've seen the occasional plane with standard AC plugs and others with just a USB plug. I suppose it depends on the airline.

@toiletduck the eShop.

Of course!

You don't think a Nintendo Life mod would be into installing games on their system via dubious third party software! Do you?

I think that it's better to not bring both lol. If I went on holiday to somewhere, I'm expecting myself to be out of hotel for a long while until I'm back and there's pretty much 0 time to do anything else unless back in room, and by that time I'm too tired to do anything.

And if I'm bored while traveling or at plane...? I use my phone to read books that I have in it.

Tiredness is just so annoying... I spend the whole day living my other life, pretending that I'm not spending every minute thinking about the games I want to play that night, the games I want to buy.

Finally everyone else has gone to bed, it's just me and those sweet, sweet games. Oh boy, which one will I play firszzzz zzzz zzzz

Wake up the next morning and repeat :crying:

It all just depends on the games. I love my 3DS, but only because of the games. Once I got my Switch I've started to only tolerate the 3DS hardware instead of really loving it. But the 3DS still has some really damn good games like Kid Icarus: Uprising, so if I'm in the mood to play that I'll just bring my 3DS.

More often than not though, I'm bringing a backpack and my Switch to play Bayonetta or Xenoblade or a new game I've gotten.

Alot depends on what games your going to play on the road will determine which portable you take. This must be the first consideration. And time playing or getting too deep won't matter here as both can be in-depth playing regardless. What you need to info us is how and where you be traveling and how that will tell others what to recommend.

@SladeWatkins @Yosheel Hehe of course, silly me... for a moment I was thinking he referred to a legal way to copy the game temporarily from card to system...

Maybe once I can back up my saves online I will start taking my Switch but up until now I've always taken my 2DS as its the DS family member with the most wear and tear and I'd be least fussed about losing it although obviously would still be gutted.

Switch is my primary system at this point. I love the 3ds library but I won't be turning on the system much until I can get one modded with a tv out. My switch goes with me to work and on flights all the time now.

I never take my 3ds anywhere anymore. I bought a headrest mount for the car and use it for the switch. It works great for car rides. Only take my switch on trips though.

Switch can’t beat 3DS portability. I play 60% docked and 40% handheld but never outside my house.. well, if you don’t count balcony 😀
Switch is to fragile imo in comparison to 3DS, with or without a case.
I don’t travel to work and never play games in public but when I go somewhere on vacation for few days it’s always my 3DS.

I would bring my Switch out and about, but I'm worried about it getting damaged, so I don't. Maybe once cloud saves are a thing then I will.

@CroRock Yeah I am a lot like that myself, the 3DS just feels like a true travel companion while the Switch is more of a home console that you can take with you to different locations. If I am on the go a lot the 3DS just feels better suited for going all over the place.

@AxeltheBuizel Yeah that is sort of a problem for me as well. The Switch just feels like more of a PS4 style of system, it has bunch of home console games and I have spent a ton of money on the digital games I have installed on it, far more than the 3DS which is mostly a physical collection outside of some cheap eshop games. It just seems like the Switch would a much bigger loss considering everything that I put into it. If I at least had some better services for backing up and putting games/saves on a different console I would probably feel more comfortable taking it everywhere with me.

A modded 3DS to play on tv is a cop-out each is different and can't be really a 1:1 comparison here. The NSW design is suited for on the go if you want a powere portable gaming console.

The NSW works well in this respect in that you can have 4 players on a single NSW or have two NSW in local lan playing together unless your playing the SSB 3DS version.

Stop trying to compare two different consoles that are different in their own gaming platform. I've seen plenty of 3DS and NSW outside playing you just need to look around a bit more.

They have many options in this to let users take it outside but it seems like your not looking.

What kinda shaming is going on here? Each does what they does and the Grapics/Power of NSW makes it more better on the go if you want some details and both are equal in terms of on the go it's that people like to try to make wedge issues where there aren't any to be had. NSW has more uber games graphics as compared to the 3DS but that doesn't discount one or the other.

Last trip to Canada I brought my switch. I can charge it in the car. Don't have a car charger for 2ds xl.

I prefer the form factor of the 2ds xl as a portable though.