I played way too much Skyrim this week because it’s on the Switch

The Nintendo Switch has had a strong first year with incredible new releases like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Super Mario Odyssey, and Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle, but November is all about older ports for Nintendo’s hybrid home/handheld console. We’ve already seen Psyonix bring Rocket League and id Software cram Doom on the device, and now Bethesda Game Studios is unleashing 2011’s The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on Switch.

Out of Doom, Rocket League, and Skyrim, Switch has the easiest time running Bethesda’s fantasy RPG. That makes sense, of course, because Doom and Rocket League are both PlayStation 4/Xbox One games first where Skyrim started on the PlayStation 3/Xbox 360. So while a Switch is underpowered compared to a PS4 — especially in handheld mode where the system underclocks its CPU to save battery — it can handle an Xbox 360 port without a lot of problems.