Question about 'The Legend of Zelda BOTW' and 'Horizon Zero Dawn'

Depends. Both are more or less open world fuckaroundery. If you want to play more open world fuckaroundery, then you may consider a PlayStation, although PC has its own large fair share of open world fuckaroundery as well. Even more when it comes to multiplayer variants.
But Nintendo consoles are generally a good idea thanks to how they usually try to think of new ways for controllers instead of re-releasing the exact same goddamn controller with a new sticker on it every 5 years and call it a day. Their strange controlling methods have led to some fun games, especially if you want party or family games or like platformers.
Also, while Horizon Zero Dawn is mostly received well enough for doing the standard open world fuckaroundery genre decently, Zelda BOTW is getting record high scores left and right. (Also, call me skeptic, but when a studio has been doing pretty much the exact same standard war shooter for 14 years and nothing else, and now suddenly they replaces British space Nazis with large robot dinosaurs, I am not sure that the game really will behold such spectacular innovations and maybe some parts of this success may be given to how it is published by the same company that also made the console for it.)

Absolutely love Zelda, just not enough to buy any new console just for it.

Might wanna scour for other games on those consoles to see which would be more cost-efficient^^

From my observations I concluded the following: BOTW is a Zelda game set in a modern RPG evironment, and it looks really good. Best RPG? No. Best Zelda? As a guy who only played less than 3 hours of Link to the Past, I say it looks and plays like the best Zelda.
Horizon is a game which consists of three parts: A safe gameplay, meaning no risks taken gameplay-wise, it's an average third person bow/arrow shooter; An above average and interesting story; And amazing graphics. Which is basically the same three parts that make another game called The Last Of Us.

Again, I AM an ass, always critical of "revolutionary" games, have usually crappy opinions, and only own a mediocre PC, so keep that in mind before taking this opinion too seriously :D

Zelda is getting record high scores, so if you are looking for that game experience, go for a Switch, I think!
To my mind, Horizon is not worth the console, if you don't have one, although it has an interesting premise and story, it doesn't really innovate from a gameplay perspective, in fact it's a very typical RPG in the western sense of the world. It's very fun, but it's fun you have experienced before. So...unless you are preparing to play the Last of Us 2...

As for a hype breaking motivation:
Perhaps, a little Witcher 3 with the expansions can heal the Horizon pain?
Can't really recommend ME: Andromeda, considering the recent controversy with the subpar animations and bad writing, so check out:
Prey for FPS
Nier for Hack 'n Slash
Sea of Thieves for open world naval combat
Styx 2 for stealth
Rime for puzzle solving
and Outlast 2 for horror

I guess as you can.
but as above said, get Wii U for Zelda and you'll have access for more games, and/or more money left for other games on PS4. There are some nice exclusives to them, maybe after buying the consoles you will be more willing to check them out :)

If you just want BoTW you should look for a 2nd handed Wii U or something. It's the same game graphically speaking and the console it's not new. Although if you are interested in the console, buying a dead one it's not a good idea.

I'm in love in both these games too and I want to play them as much as you, but I would hold with buying Switch, because there are some issues that appeared after a release, maybe there's a chance to expect nintendo to release fixed/upgraded version of the console.

And also on PS4 (now PS 4.5/slim etc) there are so many great other games that you can't play on anything else: Bloodborne, Last Guardian, Nioh and if you would like to in the future, you can easily upgrade it to VR :) that's just my opinion of course, but I was thinking about the same thing and that's probably what I'll do when I'll get some more time for a games

Buy a Wii U and have access to an actual catalog of titles. The actual FPS difference you'll find isn't much between the systems as the game plays. Probably due to BotW being made for the Wii U originally and was a somewhat rushed port for the Switch.

Buying a switch now is a bad idea imo, do yourself a favor and avoid console release shenanigans and an abysmally small selection.

As for the PS4, Horizon is a game I'm pretty sure you'll feel you've played before. Bloodborne, Persona 5, and Nioh would be the reasons you would want to get it, along with access to a superior catalog of RPGs

You should buy both

Consoles >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> PC

I love horizon zero so I'm a bit biased and would say go for it :P
Oh, I want to wait on the switch in case a pro version or something comes out and makes it more worth it, I'd love the switch for many games, but for now, there are like add-on expenses like a memory card and stuff, I think.

In the end it's your descision to make, but personally, I'd say it's not worth it if it's just for one game per console. If the console was cheaper or you had more games you want to play, sure, go for it, but to spend a couple hundred bucks just to play one game? That doesn't really sound like it's worth it to me. No matter how good a game is, if I have to spend more then a hundred bucks, it's a no-go for me.

But of course if you personally do feel like it's worth it or you can simply afford to pay something like that for one game, go for it.

While both games seem great, I dont think they are worth buying a console for. If you have interest in other titles on their library, sure. But just one seems to be overkill.

Play what you want to play. If you want to play Zelda, buy the Nintendo. If you want to play the other, buy the Playstation. If you think you'll get an amount of entertainment out of the console equal to it's price, then it's a good buy.

People who deny themselves things they want because of misplaced platform loyalty are the people who give PC gamers a bad name.

The question isn't "should you", it's "can you afford to".

Might depend on how much you love controllers, couches, and big televisions.

HUA!

When I have finished Skyrim, I will come back to your question... :D

I did a review of the Switch and Zelda.
I'm a little disappointed with the Switch mostly because it's not the end product, but Nintendo has promised a lot is still to come.
Until then, you get to play many hours of Zelda.
I didn't expect to enjoy it much, but I played over 50 hours in 10 days.
I'm a PC gamer, and never had any intention of buying a console. It's a bit weird to say that you should buy the Switch of Zelda, but there's bound to be a lot of cool games going forward.

No console is ever worth it for one game only imo. I'd say unless you can find at least 10 games on any particular console that are "must play" it's not worth even thinking about the idea of getting that console. If you really want those two games chances are that you can get them and their consoles a lot cheaper in a few years, or just play Zelda BotW on PC with an emulator...

I'm about to finish Horizon to 100%. Last few days I've been hunting down those final collectibles and probably tonight I'll finish the story.

It's good but not great. It gets the big things right: fights with robo dinosaurs are awesome, their AI is excellent (they're meant to act like animals and they really do), it looks stunning, and the story is interesting enough to keep you hooked. But it gets a LOT of little things wrong. It's pretty obviously the first open-world game by these devs so I can forgive a lot of it, but I hope the sequel will address a lot of the issues.

Some examples:

• inventory management is a total mess
• crafting system is nonsense
• the melee combat is very, VERY bad. Borderline broken. You don't use it much against robots but...
• fighting robots is awesome but fighting humans is terrible, the hit detection is spotty, melee combat is awful, and the human AI is really bad
• hunting animals is ridiculously stupid, you tag them and then blindly fire arrows at the icon, the animal itself is hidden in the grass. But you have to hunt animals to upgrade your carry capacities
• healing systems are poorly thought out (3 different kinds of healing)
• making traps is completely pointless when you have weapons that do the same thing, and they just clutter up your inventory slots
• there are lots of invisible walls and unclimbable ledges, you can only climb onto ledges that are marked for it, making climbing some cliffs an exercise in guessing "where did the devs hide the path?"
• facial animations aren't great (not as bad as Andromeda)

I've enjoyed the game but I'd never buy a PS4 for it. I will almost certainly never play it again once I finish it.

Just emulate Zelda. I heard it will be good enough to play very soon.

Use Cemu to play Zelda on PC. Simple.

I watch a Let's Play of Horizon atm and I always have the feeling that it's basically Tomb Raider with SciFi....(or AC, or even Far Cry...or any other Open World game.. ....or like BReath of the Wild with (more) SciFI ;P and without cooking)

for Zelda....I often find it kinda empty... but you could try it on PC, though at least for me it's only slowly running..
I was interested in a Switch, but with nearly no games, high price tag and not-so-good workmanship, I'll wait...

btw: Zelda's on WiiU too and that console you can cheap(er)