in what might be my least controversial opinion i really like the nintendo
switch in my mind it's basically a perfect
device not because it's actually perfect but because i've had so much fun with it
pureeing goombas and exploring ruins and hearing that sound
but it just doesn't matter now though i actually don't know about the switch
it feels large unwieldy
chunky and a bunch of other synonyms for
heavy because i lina sebastian
have seen the light
that may be the cheesiest thing we've ever done
this is the nintendo switch light the
gaming console i didn't know i needed until i held it in my hands
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
smaller horizontally but it's amazing the difference an inch makes its smaller
form factor and maybe more importantly its lighter weight takes a console that
many people use dedicated carry cases for and makes it almost pocketable i
mean even if it is in a is that a nintendo switch light are you just happy
to see me kind of way the abs plastic is a little toy like in
the hands but at least it feels like a durable toy and the matte finish
provides a suitable grip but we basically expected that what
surprised us was how the smaller size can change the way that you use the
switch on the original switch neither i nor
alex our writer for this video used the touchscreen very much but on the light
it's so easy to reach nearly the entire screen thanks to its small size that i'd
be surprised if you don't end up using it all the time like we did
the reduction in weight as i mentioned before is another big factor here
because holding the light in one hand while using the other to touch screen
away makes a big enough difference to actually change the gaming experience
especially in a game like mario maker 2 where alex has always found the editor
extremely slow and frustrating to use but has been having a blast in on the
light with the original switch i found that i
was only ever truly comfortable in a chair
by a desk or otherwise in a position normally reserved for using a laptop so
yeah it's portable but maybe not
comfortable at least not as much as our merch ltdstore.com
the light by contrast is great whether you're in bed laid back on a couch or
really just anywhere that your butt can plop down for a little while it's so
much better feeling in handheld mode than the original that while we were
working on this review actually multiple people in the office and i'm talking
people that already own nintendo switches said that they'd be getting one
for use on the go but just because i like it doesn't mean
the switch light is perfect for everyone or perfect at all
first of all the button layout nintendo gets heaps of points for including a
proper d-pad on the left side this time around although on the right they
maintained the analog stick directly below the buttons which can be a bit
uncomfortable now it doesn't bother me very much
because i've already gotten used to it from the original switch using the
middle of my thumb to operate the stick while reaching the buttons with the tip
of it but i feel like even a little bit of
offset could have made this way more ergonomic
also as much as i appreciate the smaller size of the device as a whole
the down sized screen feels more like a
downgrade 2019 has proven to be the year of high
resolution bezel-less mobile devices with vibrant
color accurate displays and nintendo seems to have missed
every mark here comparing this to this one plus 3t
replacement panel for 25 on ebay the
poor black levels and the noticeable air
gap on nintendo's five and a half inch 720p screen feel kind of like going back
in time and it's really noticeable at times like
in super mario odyssey there are these beautiful sweeping shots that introduce
you to the level and if i wanted to see any of the details in them i'd probably need to
invest in some bifocals to be clear i haven't run into anything
that's unplayable it's just that most switch games were clearly designed for a
larger screen or a much larger screen
and while i'm griping how exactly is it that a device in the
year 2019 does not have bluetooth
support okay sure when the original switch came
out wild herds of headphone jacks could still be seen galloping across the
prairies but now there's a good chance that your
best pair of earbuds
happens to be a wireless one so when you go out you're gonna need
your phone your switch light your wireless
earphones and a pair of wired earphones
adding insult to injury none of the usb type-c headphones that we tried worked
either now you can get a usb bluetooth
dongle so thanks nintendo for your standard not
standard usb-c implementation but given that the wi-fi chipset in this thing
supports bluetooth anyway
it just feels unnecessarily obtuse
and we still haven't even gotten to the biggest downside of the switch light you
cannot dock it to a tv making it less of
a nintendo switch and more of a nintendo
stuck it just outright removes what made the
switch so special compared to an xbox or
a playstation when we took our family to new york i played breath of the wild on
the flight while the kids were sleeping then we docked the console and played
mario party on the tv in the hotel room it was freaking awesome
the switch light doesn't work hooked up to a tv and straight up doesn't work
with mario party so derp
as for why they did it nintendo's official answer is something to do with
being focused on portability which obviously didn't stand up to the sniff
test so the community had all kinds of ideas
like that nintendo had used lower performance hardware or that they had
run into thermal constraints or that they were concerned about basic physical
incompatibility with the dock or just wanted to create artificial product
segmentation so people would still spend more on a switch that actually
switches well as it turns out thanks to the very
similar cooling solution and more power efficient processor the switch light
performs just as well as the original and gets only a bit warm while gaming
and charging at the same time so that wasn't it but as jonathan downey
discovered there is in fact hardware componentry that is missing on the
switchlights motherboard that would be required for it to output video to an
external device leaving this out reduces both nintendo's
manufacturing cost and the complexity of the device making it less likely to fail
which is pretty important in an all-in-one because i mean even compared
to the regular switch which you can replace a joy-con if you have a joystick
fail this is just one thing's dead
it needs to be repaired so then
they were actually just focused on portability all right nintendo fair
enough the 35 70 milliamp hour battery which is
pretty easy to access for future replacements bt dubs got us near enough
to nintendo's four hours of life in heavy games and about double that in
lighter 2d ones but on the subject of reliability how is
that old joystick drift problem coming along the joystick is a new part number
but the design looks very similar to the old one and there's already at least one
video showing drift on a switch light so far nothing on either of our units
but we'd love to hear from you guys in the comments could this be another
macbook pro keyboard situation which brings us to the conclusion the
switch light is awesome there are a few things that would make it better better
screen better buttons and the ability to
well switch and even if we couldn't pull off those
first two i would pay really good money to get a dock for the switch light
because as a portable system it is so
much better on the go than this one but even without any of that stuff the
switch light is still getting a strong recommendation
as i said before the original switch was very impressive but its lack of focus
did hurt it a little it was super underpowered for a living room console
kinda clunky on the go and the joy-con controllers sacrificed a great deal of
general usability so that they could double as mini controllers
compared to that the switch lights laser focus on being a portable device is
refreshing i never asked for 3d or multi-screen
gimmicks and quite frankly i don't miss them at all so the very reasonable 200
price tag coupled with the capability to play anything from breath of the wild to
snes classic console games on what is basically a roided out game boy advance
makes this possibly the best portable console ever don't add me
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