TL;DR:
- Joy-Cons are more comfortable for adult hands, though still not as big as other systems.
- Mouse mode joy-cons are awkward. The buttons are small and there is no place to rest your other fingers and palm.
- You will want to have a table if you are playing mouse-oriented games like Metroid Prime 4 and Civ 7.
- Graphics seem better than the Steam Deck, worse than a PS4 Pro, but will improve as games are optimized.
- Mouse aim works well in Metroid.
- Mario Kart World is good and Knockout Tour is a fun addition to the game.
I’m not sure what exactly this author expected in terms of performance. It’d be diabolical if it were worse than a 3 year old Deck, but i’m not shocked that the mobile SoC is worse than the furnace that was the ps4 pro. They’ll undoubtedly be using frame gen for this, so time will tell how the quality is
The entire article has a tone of “it is exactly as we expected it to be”. Good to have a journalist say that Nintendo was not covering up some horrible, obvious flaw.