Do I play Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom on Switch 2 or should I wait for Switch 3?

No, that’s not a serious question, but it is very close to the way my mind has been working recently. Should I play the new big game now? If I wait a bit, maybe it’ll get patched and be better? What if it gets updated for a Pro console? New generation consoles are only a few years away, and it’s bound to be re-released for those, so maybe I should wait and play something else instead? Do the questions ever stop? Why must I overcomplicate everything? Breathe… how do I breathe!?

In the old days, back when you could buy a new console for pennies (ignore the fact that a Sega Mega Drive would cost £550 in today’s money), sweets also cost a penny, and people rode around on penny farthings, a game pretty much lived on one console. You bought it for the SNES and you only played it on the SNES. In some instances a game (usually a popular arcade game) would get a later release on a newer system, but generally something like The Alien 3 would be released on all the available consoles at the same time, and that would be that. You’d convince your parents to buy the version for your console, and that was done and dusted. Alien 3 ain’t getting any better in the future. I didn’t know it at the time, but that is a feeling I’d come to miss.

The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild & Tears of the Kingdom – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Trailer Watch on YouTube

Today, games move around with you or are re-released/remastered, making the decision about when to play something less obvious than it may seem. There may be even better examples, but Gears 5 (a game I think is a little underrated if you’re wondering), is a brilliant achievement on Xbox One considering the hardware, but it’s significantly better on Xbox One X, and even betterer on Xbox Series X. If you’re not someone who replays games (some of us barely have time to play them a first time), there are some decisions to be made about what you play and when.