I grew up on Mario (hated anything else) and got one on release day for my 6-year old and I. We’ve played it every night after dinne since.
Mario Odyssey is frickin awesome, Mario and Rabbids is surprisingly awesome but a little more violent than I like for our son, and of course Mario Cart is the best in the series (a high bar).
I’ve never liked 99% of games on consoles but this was worth every penny even if no other game ever came out on it, even though there are several already announced for early next year we’ve preordered.
Don’t overthink the different controls as we’ve only used the side controllers that detach twice, we always use the pro wireless ones.
As a major Mario franchise fan that doesn’t care for Halo, war simulation games, FPS, etc it’s a perfect option. I do think it’ll have a long shelf life and it’s selling like crazy so the game devs have heavily committed.