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in what might be my least controversial opinion i really like the nintendo

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switch in my mind it's basically a perfect

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device not because it's actually perfect but because i've had so much fun with it

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pureeing goombas and exploring ruins and hearing that sound

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but it just doesn't matter now though i actually don't know about the switch

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it feels large unwieldy

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chunky and a bunch of other synonyms for

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heavy because i lina sebastian

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have seen the light

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that may be the cheesiest thing we've ever done

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this is the nintendo switch light the

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gaming console i didn't know i needed until i held it in my hands

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so let's take a look at why i like it so much and also who might be better off

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compared to the original nintendo switch the switch light is only about an inch

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smaller horizontally but it's amazing the difference an inch makes its smaller

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form factor and maybe more importantly its lighter weight takes a console that

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many people use dedicated carry cases for and makes it almost pocketable i

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mean even if it is in a is that a nintendo switch light are you just happy

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to see me kind of way the abs plastic is a little toy like in

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the hands but at least it feels like a durable toy and the matte finish

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provides a suitable grip but we basically expected that what

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surprised us was how the smaller size can change the way that you use the

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switch on the original switch neither i nor

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alex our writer for this video used the touchscreen very much but on the light

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it's so easy to reach nearly the entire screen thanks to its small size that i'd

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be surprised if you don't end up using it all the time like we did

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the reduction in weight as i mentioned before is another big factor here

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because holding the light in one hand while using the other to touch screen

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away makes a big enough difference to actually change the gaming experience

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especially in a game like mario maker 2 where alex has always found the editor

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extremely slow and frustrating to use but has been having a blast in on the

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light with the original switch i found that i

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was only ever truly comfortable in a chair

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by a desk or otherwise in a position normally reserved for using a laptop so

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yeah it's portable but maybe not

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comfortable at least not as much as our merch ltdstore.com

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the light by contrast is great whether you're in bed laid back on a couch or

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really just anywhere that your butt can plop down for a little while it's so

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much better feeling in handheld mode than the original that while we were

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working on this review actually multiple people in the office and i'm talking

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people that already own nintendo switches said that they'd be getting one

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for use on the go but just because i like it doesn't mean

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the switch light is perfect for everyone or perfect at all

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first of all the button layout nintendo gets heaps of points for including a

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proper d-pad on the left side this time around although on the right they

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maintained the analog stick directly below the buttons which can be a bit

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uncomfortable now it doesn't bother me very much

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because i've already gotten used to it from the original switch using the

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middle of my thumb to operate the stick while reaching the buttons with the tip

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of it but i feel like even a little bit of

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offset could have made this way more ergonomic

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also as much as i appreciate the smaller size of the device as a whole

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the down sized screen feels more like a

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downgrade 2019 has proven to be the year of high

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resolution bezel-less mobile devices with vibrant

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color accurate displays and nintendo seems to have missed

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every mark here comparing this to this one plus 3t

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replacement panel for 25 on ebay the

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poor black levels and the noticeable air

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gap on nintendo's five and a half inch 720p screen feel kind of like going back

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in time and it's really noticeable at times like

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in super mario odyssey there are these beautiful sweeping shots that introduce

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you to the level and if i wanted to see any of the details in them i'd probably need to

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invest in some bifocals to be clear i haven't run into anything

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that's unplayable it's just that most switch games were clearly designed for a

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larger screen or a much larger screen

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and while i'm griping how exactly is it that a device in the

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year 2019 does not have bluetooth

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support okay sure when the original switch came

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out wild herds of headphone jacks could still be seen galloping across the

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prairies but now there's a good chance that your

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best pair of earbuds

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happens to be a wireless one so when you go out you're gonna need

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your phone your switch light your wireless

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earphones and a pair of wired earphones

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adding insult to injury none of the usb type-c headphones that we tried worked

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either now you can get a usb bluetooth

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dongle so thanks nintendo for your standard not

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standard usb-c implementation but given that the wi-fi chipset in this thing

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supports bluetooth anyway

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it just feels unnecessarily obtuse

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and we still haven't even gotten to the biggest downside of the switch light you

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cannot dock it to a tv making it less of

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a nintendo switch and more of a nintendo

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stuck it just outright removes what made the

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switch so special compared to an xbox or

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a playstation when we took our family to new york i played breath of the wild on

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the flight while the kids were sleeping then we docked the console and played

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mario party on the tv in the hotel room it was freaking awesome

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the switch light doesn't work hooked up to a tv and straight up doesn't work

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with mario party so derp

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as for why they did it nintendo's official answer is something to do with

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being focused on portability which obviously didn't stand up to the sniff

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test so the community had all kinds of ideas

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like that nintendo had used lower performance hardware or that they had

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run into thermal constraints or that they were concerned about basic physical

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incompatibility with the dock or just wanted to create artificial product

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segmentation so people would still spend more on a switch that actually

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switches well as it turns out thanks to the very

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similar cooling solution and more power efficient processor the switch light

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performs just as well as the original and gets only a bit warm while gaming

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and charging at the same time so that wasn't it but as jonathan downey

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discovered there is in fact hardware componentry that is missing on the

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switchlights motherboard that would be required for it to output video to an

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external device leaving this out reduces both nintendo's

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manufacturing cost and the complexity of the device making it less likely to fail

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which is pretty important in an all-in-one because i mean even compared

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to the regular switch which you can replace a joy-con if you have a joystick

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fail this is just one thing's dead

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it needs to be repaired so then

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they were actually just focused on portability all right nintendo fair

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enough the 35 70 milliamp hour battery which is

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pretty easy to access for future replacements bt dubs got us near enough

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to nintendo's four hours of life in heavy games and about double that in

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lighter 2d ones but on the subject of reliability how is

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that old joystick drift problem coming along the joystick is a new part number

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but the design looks very similar to the old one and there's already at least one

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video showing drift on a switch light so far nothing on either of our units

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but we'd love to hear from you guys in the comments could this be another

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macbook pro keyboard situation which brings us to the conclusion the

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switch light is awesome there are a few things that would make it better better

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screen better buttons and the ability to

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well switch and even if we couldn't pull off those

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first two i would pay really good money to get a dock for the switch light

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because as a portable system it is so

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much better on the go than this one but even without any of that stuff the

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switch light is still getting a strong recommendation

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as i said before the original switch was very impressive but its lack of focus

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did hurt it a little it was super underpowered for a living room console

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kinda clunky on the go and the joy-con controllers sacrificed a great deal of

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general usability so that they could double as mini controllers

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compared to that the switch lights laser focus on being a portable device is

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refreshing i never asked for 3d or multi-screen

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gimmicks and quite frankly i don't miss them at all so the very reasonable 200

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price tag coupled with the capability to play anything from breath of the wild to

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snes classic console games on what is basically a roided out game boy advance

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makes this possibly the best portable console ever don't add me

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video and uh see ya sorry someone was waving at me

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off camera they were miming me waving but then totally distracted me way to go

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