Is it okay to introduce a 6-year-old to Nintendo switch?

I cannot find the reference but there is a difference between games where you progress when you get better and games where you progress because your character gets better.

The first category in moderation is empowering, the seconds probably sets you ups for behavioral problems. My personal experience with ADHD seems to fit that narrative but it might be a case of reverse or spurious correlation.

So if you do choose to get them a console, choose the games wisely. To be safe prefer games where the player needs to upskill to games where the player needs to grind so it's character gets better.

I'd say to keep them away from it for awhile unless you closely monitor which games are being played. There are too many games out there that are tailor-engineered to trigger biochemical/endorphin responses that I'd say to keep away for as long as possible. Maybe consider a leapfrog learning tablet or just say f-it and go zero electronics. Games like Animal Crossing is probably okay but even there I had to discuss w/ my (then) tween that usually when you go into debt you have to pay something called "interest" and so going into debt is generally not a good way to live your life haha.

Things that can kill you are generally at one end of the spectrum. You're not handing the kid a crack pipe.

The other side is something like broccoli... Good for you, tasty (or not) but not something one normally gets excited about.

IN the grand scheme of things the switch is much closer to brocoli than crack. All the things that you are going to worry about are life lessons that come with the device. Do your home work first, moderation, outside still matters... Nothing wrong with starting all that early!

Modern stuff is junk. Its always updating itself, making you log in, updating their privacy policy, advertising new crap at you in your homescreen, annoying you in one way or another, loot boxes, and who knows what else.

Buy a SNES instead.

Analogue's Super NT works with HDMI although it is sold out so you'll need to use ebay.

I'm thinking about the same thing but with an emulated NES.