Is the Nintendo Switch still worth it?

How the Joy-Con rail system turns one console into three

Here's what actually makes that handoff work: the Joy-Con controllers slide onto rails built into either side of the 6.2 inch LCD screen, the same rails that let them snap onto a grip for two-handed play or split apart so a second person can hold half each for local co-op. Docked, the console reroutes its video through HDMI to a TV and the screen goes dark while the same hardware keeps rendering. Undocked, it props up on its own kickstand for tabletop play or sits in your hands as a straight handheld. It's one processor doing three jobs depending on which shell it's clicked into, which is why there's no separate travel version to buy on top of the home one. The 32 GB of onboard storage is thin for a modern library, worth knowing before you assume you won't need a microSDXC card eventually, but the Wi-Fi handles the online and local wireless multiplayer that make the co-op modes worth using in the first place. That's the detail that decides whether the price makes sense: you're not paying for a home console with portable extras bolted on, you're paying for one set of hardware that reshapes itself, and the games get designed around that fact, which is why so many of them lean toward pick-up-and-put-down sessions rather than sprawling worlds that punish an interruption.