# Xbox vs switch? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Tags:** computer-hardware\ **Created:** [September 9, 2023, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xbox-vs-switch/989827 "2023-09-09T08:27:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Saffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saffer/32/6440_2.png) [@Saffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saffer)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2023, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xbox-vs-switch/989827/1 "2023-09-09T08:27:00Z")
I want to buy a gaming console so I can play games with my 8 year old son. Should I get the Xbox or the switch? ---
**Author:** ![Saffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saffer/32/6440_2.png) [@Saffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saffer)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2023, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xbox-vs-switch/989827/2 "2023-09-09T09:11:52Z")
I went with Xbox ---
**Author:** ![Saffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saffer/32/6440_2.png) [@Saffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saffer)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2023, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xbox-vs-switch/989827/3 "2023-09-09T12:39:24Z")
Xbox pass seems like a waste of time. Am I wrong? ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2023, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xbox-vs-switch/989827/4 "2023-09-09T14:12:33Z")
If you’d like to take it out of the house, the Switch is the way to go. My daughter, who is far more attuned to these things, says that Nintendo has a reputation for having more family-friendly games. Full disclosure: we have two Switches in the household because she got her dad hooked on the Legend of Zelda games. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2023, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xbox-vs-switch/989827/5 "2023-09-09T15:09:24Z")
The last consoles I bought was a Super-Nintendo and a Sega Genesis. So I would go with the Switch so i could play the latest versions of the Mario and Zelda games I grew up playing, ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2023, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xbox-vs-switch/989827/6 "2023-09-09T15:55:48Z")
> [@InternetLegend](#): > > more family-friendly games. My now adult children (three men and a woman) are all Switch people, and one brought theirs along on our family gathering vacation at my MIL’s beach house. I may be speaking of ignorance regarding XBox but Switch being more “family friendly” seems to not quite capture it. To my read it is like saying it’s for kids and G rated with all the pablum that such implies, but that is not the case. My impression of XBox is an over-representation of “let’s kill again and again” just with different skins and varying degrees of realism. And a few sports games. Switch games strike me as more _creative_. Less violence to be sure but more _exploration_ and more … thought? Maybe more evocative? Thought not like pure intellectual thought but thoughtfulness? I didn’t play but I appreciated what was on the screen. And some of the games’ themes seemed like they’d fly past young ones heads. But again from a limited outsider to gaming POV. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2023, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xbox-vs-switch/989827/7 "2023-09-09T20:28:57Z")
> [@Saffer](#): > > Xbox pass seems like a waste of time. Am I wrong? Xbox Game Pass is widely considered to be one of the best deals in gaming. Over 400 games available for $30 a month or whatever it’s subbing for these days. And not just musty old games but often Day One release like Starfield. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xbox-vs-switch/989827/8 "2023-09-10T03:24:28Z")
I think I’m paying closer to $15 for the full package, whatever they’re calling it now…unluss’un they raised it in the past few months or so. I haven’t been paying too much attention. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xbox-vs-switch/989827/9 "2023-09-10T03:56:38Z")
Yeah, plus I think there’s different tiers for Xbox or Xbox plus PC. Anyway, roundly considered to be a great deal.