The last system I got was a used switch, and before that, it was DS light. I had a flashcart for the DS lite, I was backing up my saves, downloading first run games, built in AR support, plus it could run emulators and other apps. The QoL was kind of insane. The switch wasn't anywhere close to that; every game was hideously expensive, way worse than I remembered for what I would be paying for DS games (obv if I had been).

I had 8 gb to store DS games, which meant I never had to worry about storage. I had 30 hanging out on there, along with emulators and whatever else. I got a second hand mobile switch, which meant that I couldn;t swap out the HDD. I got something like six or seven games for it, which meant very fast I had delete games and send them to the store or whatever. The whole HD, which was something like 200 gb which was only enough for 3 or so games, which is insanity to me, especially since they want to do away with physical media.

None of the switch games captured my interest, but that may not up to objective quality. I will say though that 4th gen pokemon was one of the games I sank myself into, unlike any game before or since. I really sank into the competitive and I was maybe in the 100 players in the world. literal thousands of hours, across Diamond and SS (the internal clock on the save screen stops counting at 1000). Shield was maybe the worst pokemon game I have ever played and BP was just really boring. I might just be too old for it.

Anyways, I got an anbernic and it hits me where I live. I can keep all of my games on one system, I can download all the games I want, I can play pokemon rom hacks with an interface that makes it feel like pokemon.