It's pretty clear he wanted to give Xander the switch
He wanted to because May left her old switch in Mexico, he doesn’t use it so he could pretend he was giving Xander an expensive gift. Ralph is broke and selfish, but also a braggart. He wanted to spend $0 and brag about giving Xander a fancy toy.
That's an awful lot of words and coping and seething when he could have saved a lot of time and effort and said his parents neglected him and he has no idea how to positively nurture the kid he sees once every three months. That's a pretty funny screed of insults from him, considering he doesn't even play video games (FIFA or whatever EA Sports title he fires up for fifteen minutes once a year don't count).
He had a TV in his room at age 5? No wonder he's brain-rotted and obsessed with Basketball-Americans. Hopefully Faith and Isaiah do a better job of raising Xander than Ronnie and Sandra did with Ethan, but it looks promising so far.
In his nostalgic white trash childhood revelry he carefully ignored the post pointing out a 3-4 year old literally doesn’t have the hand size, fine motor skills, hand eye coordination or dexterity to use a switch yet.
Ralph should spend his limited visiting time watching Xander color with crayons, catch a ball or use utensils so he can understand what children at that age are actually capable of doing. He obviously can’t be bothered to read about it and doesn’t spend enough time around Xander to have a single clue.
Ralph was not playing any of those video games at 3- 4 years old. Ralph might be recalling memories from 6-7 but he wasn’t playing Frogger at 3. The fact he writes as if he has such clear recall of these details from age 3 or 4 confirms it’s obvious bullshit. Ralph is taking vague memories from when he 6 or 7 and retrofitting them to ages 3-4 to
If Ralph ever “played” games as a 3 year old it was Sandra giving Ralph an unplugged joystick #2 while she actually played but he didn’t know the difference.
Ralph has taken as much effort to learn about childhood development as old Ronnie did.
Btw I loved arcade games when I teen babysitting kids 2-4 years old, because you could sit them front of an arcade game, let them hit buttons and move the stick and never put any coins in. They were thrilled. Putting a coin in was just a waste and actually ruined their enjoyment. Today they might be like Ralph and think they were really good gamers before kindergarten.