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Happy birthday, son!

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Here is the Switch 2 I promised you.

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And you can have it as soon as I make sure that you're not making the biggest mistake

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of your young life. You see, there are a ton of amazing handheld gaming devices

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these days and I think you should at least try them before making your decision.

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And the question will be, are you gonna stick with Nintendo's latest

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or are you gonna take the plunge into the big boy pool?

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Like, because some of the PC competitors are really big.

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Not because adults can't enjoy Mario Kart. I like Mario Kart.

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So here's the deal. You're gonna try eight different gaming handhelds today.

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And if you like one of them, more than you like the Switch 2,

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you can take that home instead. But there's a catch. Should you choose something other than the Switch 2,

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I'm not buying you a Switch 2. Just like I'm not gonna buy you the Segway to our sponsor.

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The reason I'm excited for the Switch 2,

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it's like a brand new console and it's really the only console I know about.

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The new Mario Kart sounds pretty fun. Also the upgraded versions of Breath of the Wild

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and Tears of the Kingdom. The backwards compatibility is important

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because even though Mario Kart World might be better than Mario Kart 8, I might still wanna play that sometimes.

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If I'm going to see my cousins and I'm bringing a handheld, battery life would be kind of important,

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but I can also just bring a charger and charge it while I'm playing. So it's not like a deal breaker.

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It's not a deal breaker for sure. You're gonna get me to try eight consoles in an hour

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and decide between one of them? Yes. Let's start with the 800 pound gorilla, the Steam Deck.

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While it might not be the most powerful of our choices today,

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there is a reason that is the most popular. Steam OS is slick as heck,

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not to mention just plain more efficient than Windows.

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And Valve's understanding of gaming shines through in every aspect of its design.

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Its only drawback is that it has a limited game library,

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but that's only compared to Windows handhelds. Compared to Big Red,

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the Steam Deck's game library is expansive, not to mention way more affordable

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because you can play most of the games

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that you can get on Steam. We've got a couple of games preloaded, but the most important one is probably split fiction,

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not because I think it'll be your favorite game ever, but because it is cross-platform

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and available on all of our systems. Any initial impressions?

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This mouse pad is so cool. Yeah, the dual track pads on this thing,

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actually very cool. You can use them for mouse aiming with some practice

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and they have haptic feedback as you noticed already.

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They also have momentum, so you can kind of throw them and you'll feel them vibrate.

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They're very configurable. And if you wanna play something like

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a strategy game on the go, they're useful for that as well.

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It's very big. Yes.

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Is that a problem? Depends if I'm traveling somewhere

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and my suitcase is full. In terms of the ergonomic advantages,

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a lot of people really like that about the Steam Deck, but no, it's not as packable as something like a Switch.

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The D-pad's kind of small. It's hard to individually choose one

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rather than go diagonal. I don't think it's a size issue, but no, the Steam Deck's D-pad is not known to be amazing.

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Do you wanna play around with SteamOS at all? SteamOS?

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What's SteamOS? SteamOS is the operating system that Valve developed

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for the Steam Deck that only basically runs Steam.

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Okay, sure. You can use it in desktop mode with other applications,

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but it's actually Linux-based. It is not Windows or Nintendo.

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It is their own thing. So you've got the Steam button here, which allows you to access all of Steam.

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And this little three dots here

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gives you access to all of your system settings. That's very quick and useful.

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I like that. It is way better than the implementation

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on Windows handhelds. It also gives the Steam Deck excellent efficiency

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if you're running lighter games like David Diver and it will instantly suspend and resume

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like something like a Nintendo rather than taking a while to boot up like Windows.

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There are drawbacks though. It's one of the least-performant out of all the handhelds we're gonna look at today

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and the screen, honestly, not amazing by today's standards.

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Of course, there is another.

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Meet the Steam Deck OLED. Is this the same as that one?

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Well, not quite. The difference is right in the name.

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It's a Steam Deck, but with an OLED display and it is beautiful.

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A thousand-nits peak brightness, perfect blacks, HDR,

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they've done an outstanding job with this thing.

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If this is the same as the other Steam Deck but it just has a better screen, is it just better?

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Yes, it's also a little faster. Okay. And to show off just how much performance is on tap here,

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we actually loaded up the Legend of Zelda, Breath of the Wild, a Nintendo exclusive game,

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in an emulator so you could try it and see what the experience is like.

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I would tap it. Realistically, I don't think it's gonna be much laggier

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than the Switch One, but it's not gonna hold a candle to the Switch Two.

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However, what do you think of the display? It's very bright, it's a lot better than the other one.

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Gets really laggy when I hit it for a second. Yeah, but the battery life is even better

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than the original Steam Deck. Okay, why don't we move on?

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If more performance is what you're after, this may be your poison.

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This is the same thing you have, so if I wanted to use one, I could just ask you to borrow it.

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Okay, that's hacking. Hacking is not allowed. Back to the script.

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You may be familiar with this one.

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It's the one I use at home. Obviously, he's familiar with it,

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but for the rest of you, the main draw of the ROG Ally

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is the inclusion of AMD's Z1 Extreme Processor, a chip that is so much more powerful than the Steam Deck

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that it easily overcomes any of Windows' inefficiencies.

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Well, as long as we ignore battery life in later games

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and ignore the kind of cludgy general experience

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of navigating Windows on a handheld device, Microsoft has some work to do.

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By the way, this and all of the devices that we've got today are gonna be linked

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in the video description. This one, the story for the screen is a bit more complicated.

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It's 1080p, so higher resolution compared to the Steam Deck,

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but it's not OLED, but it can do up to 120 Hertz.

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So for supported games, it'll be smoother, kind of like your monitor at home.

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Oh, also, the interface for changing things, right there.

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So you can adjust your brightness, change your performance mode.

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You won't get much battery life out of the higher performance modes, but hey, it's really fast.

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Okay, let's try Turbo. You're gonna get like an hour of battery life

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if you're lucky on that mode. 48 minutes.

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48 minutes? Yeah, on that battery mode, yeah. No, you don't wanna run it on that.

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Oh, now it's so slow. What if I told you there was an Ally,

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but with better battery life? That would be cool. Okay, let's have a look.

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Here you go, brace yourself, she's heavier. Not by that much though, when you consider

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that it went from a 40-watt hour battery to an 80-watt hour battery.

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They literally doubled the capacity of the battery, which results in at least two hours of battery life,

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even in the higher performance modes, and as much as a lot more hours.

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Is this one just the same as the other one with higher battery life?

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In general, yes. Oh, we actually made a small mistake on the RAM speed,

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so they increased the speed of the memory from 6,400 megatransitters per second

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to 7,500 megatransitters per second, which does make it a bit faster.

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It also has a little bit more memory, but in general, it's same-same, but better.

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This one's way smoother and higher FPS than the other one we played Breath of the Wild on.

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Yes. It's also in the highest mode though, so I don't know.

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But what's nice about this is that it has such a big battery

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that you can actually run it in the highest power mode for an amount of time.

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See like it's lagging a bit right now? I don't know, you tell me, you're playing.

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It does a little bit. Emulation is not going to be perfect

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unless you have an extremely powerful system. And this is a fast handheld,

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but it's not an extremely powerful system even so.

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Okay, but why? I don't know.

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I was just trying to hit something. I didn't know it would... What did you think an explosive barrel was going to do?

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Yet more proof as if you needed it, that no matter how good your gear is,

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it's not going to make you a better gamer. Now there are some things about the LIX that aren't great.

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It still has the same display as the original LI, which is fine, and it's significantly more expensive.

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But given you're not paying for your system, I guess that's a non-factor for you.

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Where does this rank for you? Probably at the very top. What if I told you that you could have the performance

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of this with the removable controllers of the Switch?

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That would be even better. Let's have a look. This time for real, she is a chunky boy.

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That's very heavy compared to all the other ones.

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The benefit is this is the biggest screen we've seen yet.

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8.8 inches and the highest resolution. It does 1440p up to 144 Hertz.

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Small drawback. Remember the battery life issues of the first-gen ally?

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Yeah. Basically the same. How long would it last for in its highest performance mode?

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A little over an hour. Okay. What do all of these buttons on the back do?

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Oh, well, those are paddles. So you can bind them to any functions that you want.

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In fact, a lot of the ones we've looked at so far do have rear paddles.

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One of them, ah, yes, slides off the controllers.

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There we go. And this is cool.

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Boop, that's a pretty cool use case, right? That's awesome.

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Especially because it's so heavy you wouldn't want to hold it.

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Why don't you fire up a Tomb Raider?

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The buttons are really small compared to some of the other ones, though.

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It's not my favorite controller, but one nice thing is that on at least one side of it,

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it does have a trackpad. Oh, I didn't even notice that.

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That's why I'm here for the tech tips. Papa tech tips.

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At this point, seeing all the options that are out there, are you a little less confident

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that you want to switch to for your birthday? Or are you still pretty confident?

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A little bit. These are all very cool and fast

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and a lot better than I expected for such a small device.

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This is just a gorgeous game that even a few short years ago,

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you would have needed a full-sized gaming PC to run.

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And it runs on this. Of course, you won't always be able to just put it down on something,

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so you should try it handheld. Okay.

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How does it feel? It's very heavy.

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If I was to hold this for half an hour, an hour,

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I think my arms would get pretty tired. It does have another party trick.

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Check this out.

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FPS mode.

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That becomes a mouse. But that's something that's there overly.

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So you can see performance and you can change your modes and all that.

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This menu's legier than the game is.

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Okay, that's fair. I would like to change gears completely

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and go from our heaviest device to our lightest one.

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Can I get a longer time trying every single one of them

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before deciding? No.

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Do I actually have to decide today? Yeah, but you thought I was like

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giving you a different answer on camera than- I don't know.

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It's, I'm choosing a console. Yeah.

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Meet the PlayStation Portal. This is not actually a console,

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but the combo deal here is on offer because the price of a PS Portal and a PlayStation 5

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is actually less than some of the handheld PCs

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that we've looked at today. The joystick's not in a very comfortable position.

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That's PlayStation style. You do get used to it, but yes, it is not my preference

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either, the symmetrical joystick position versus the asymmetrical Xbox style.

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I'm also not a huge fan of their D-pad style, but they do have advantages in their controller

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and one is that their haptics are excellent. Also, this is compared to anything else

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we're looking at today, the most powerful gaming solution.

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It's only 1080p, but it is a locked 60 FPS

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with absolutely gorgeous levels of detail.

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It's also the least flexible solution in a way that I'll explain in a little bit,

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but why don't you give it a shot first? Which buttons A and which ones B?

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Not really a PlayStation house. Never seen a PlayStation, I don't know.

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Do any of your friends have PlayStations? One of them does. Oh, okay.

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Have you ever used it? No. Okay, well, it doesn't have A, B.

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Well, which one confirms in which one goes wrong? Can't remember.

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Okay. Look at the visual fidelity though. Okay, you haven't actually tried the Switch 2 yet,

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but here it is. I'm like, look at the detail level by comparison.

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Another great thing about the Portal is Sony's amazing game library, but here's the thing.

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While this has the best battery life, also out of anything that we've tested,

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the reason is that there's no game console in it.

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It is streaming wirelessly from that PlayStation over there,

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which means... I need a PlayStation? Yes, not only do you need a PlayStation,

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but you need an active internet connection to your PlayStation.

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And the closer you are to your PlayStation, the better the experience,

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and the farther you are from your PlayStation, the worse the experience

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in terms of especially input latency.

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That would be really annoying then because bringing a PlayStation somewhere is very hard.

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You can play from elsewhere, but the farther you are,

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the worse the internet connection. Why don't we shift our attention back to consoles

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that are actually consoles rather than streaming devices?

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These are our last two. We've got the Ionio 3, which unfortunately didn't perform as well as we hoped,

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but has an OLED screen and this super cool modular interface

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where you can actually swap this around depending on what games you're playing

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and whether you want to be able to reach a D-pad or a joystick more easily,

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and same here for the ABXY and the Touchpad.

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We've also got the MSI Claw, an unexpected standout.

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This ended up being the best performing PC handheld in our roundup

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thanks to some recent driver tweaks from Intel. The fans are pretty loud for this one.

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Yeah, you haven't even fired anything up yet. That's the yikes.

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Oh, do you want to try out the modular interface? Yeah. There we go.

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One click, pop up.

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That's pretty cool. Not gonna lie.

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Now is it in the configuration that you'd prefer? Yeah. Okay, fire up a game.

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Those fans are pretty loud. They really are.

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Oh yeah, Trackpad's working. Okay, the Trackpad. It's definitely a Trackpad. There's a joystick ABXY,

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so you wouldn't be stuck with the Trackpad if you didn't want it.

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Just needs more volume.

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There, now the fans aren't a problem, right?

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Yeah, but I would never play with them this loud.

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Okay, fine. Why don't we try the claw?

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Does this one have a higher refresh rate than the other ones? It's not higher than all of the other ones,

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but it's 120 Hertz, which is at the high end,

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and because it performs so well, you are actually getting more benefit

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out of that higher refresh rate display. This is very smooth.

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It's a lot of performance. It's a chunky package,

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but you get a big eight inch display, and reasonable fan noise.

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In terms of battery life, it's between the Ally and the AllyX,

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but closer to the AllyX, like an hour 40 in even a very high performance profile.

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That's pretty good. It's pretty good,

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but what it isn't as good as is the Switch 2.

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Are you ready to try the Switch 2? Yeah, I wanna see how it compares to these.

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Still in the mix is the RG AllyX, the Legion Go, and the claw.

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What do you like best and least about each of them? Okay, this one, I like the fast refresh rate

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and the big screen. So the performance essentially? Yeah, performance.

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Because all of these have 120 Hertz plus displays,

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but this is the more performance of the three. What about the others?

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This one was battery life and fast, and it's not as heavy as the really big ones.

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You don't get as big of a screen, but it's significantly more totable.

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And this one, I like the detachable Joy-Cons

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in this little mouse pad and the big screen.

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But this is a funny thing.

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Even though the Switch 2, this is now your first time holding it, I think, right?

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Yeah. Even though the Switch 2 is so slim compared to these,

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the same thickness as the original Switch and the Switch OLED,

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its screen is among the largest that we've seen

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at 7.9 inches. So smaller than the Legion Go,

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but just shy of the claw. Wow.

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It also has a 120 Hertz display, and it supports HDR, just like the Steam Deck OLED.

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Yeah, why don't you fire up Breath of the Wild? Because that's the game that you've been playing

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on the others. Nintendo Switch 2 Edition. Yes.

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For an extra 15 Canadian dollars, you can upgrade Breath of the Wild

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to look better and run better. Does it get any other bonus features?

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I think so, but like, nothing that's a huge deal.

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You get another save slot, I think, or something? I don't know. The big ones are that it's prettier

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and that it runs better. I like that it's a lot bigger than the Switch, the other Switch.

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Yeah, it's especially nice when you remove the Joy-Cons and you're using them in Joy-Con controller mode.

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I think it's actually kind of usable. Also, this is sick. The Joy-Cons are magnetic now.

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Oh. So you just... Wow, that's way better.

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Do you want to hear any drawbacks yet, or do you just want to enjoy it first?

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Just enjoy it first. Okay. That's fair, that's valid.

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Obviously, the interface is what you're familiar with, so if you want to adjust your brightness

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or volume or anything, just, yep.

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Hold it, but sure. No, what? You don't know about the...

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Go back in the game, go back in the game. Hold here.

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There you go. Oh, I didn't even know you could do that on the other one.

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I've let him down. It's not an OLED, but it is an HDR display

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and it is pretty gorgeous from my limited time with it so far.

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Everything's way brighter and cleaner than the other.

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Sure is. Not only do games run at a higher frame rate,

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but the screen is a higher resolution compared to the original Switch as well.

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Do these Joy-Cons have as much drift as the Switch One?

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We don't know yet. They might be okay, but they're not Hall of Facts,

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so they might not be okay. Yeah, all of our Joy-Cons drift really bad.

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Well, this scene's way better than the other one.

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It's way better than the other Switch. The quality's higher, refresh rate's higher.

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The sound is so much better.

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Let's put the point back to where she's at.

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That's so cool. Okay, these ones are so big.

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They're like actually the right size for my hands.

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And they're magnetic. That's really, really cool. It's so smooth.

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It's so much brighter, cleaner, faster than this one.

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Well, yeah. And this is even the OLED. And it's-

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So this has the benefit of having arguably the better display, but Nintendo didn't put in the work

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to implement HDR on this. So this is probably gonna look better day to day.

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Although, whoa, that contrast though. But the frame rate blows.

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Yeah, so you can really see the color saturation on the OLED, but you get the peak brightness from HDR.

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If they do a Switch to OLED, which they almost certainly will at some point,

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you would get the best of both worlds, but that doesn't exist yet.

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And I'm not promising to buy you one of those. So, do you wanna play Mario Kart World?

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Yeah, let's play Mario Kart. Oh, these are actually big. On the Switch one, these were tiny

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and they're so hard to press. Huge improvement.

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Dude, I'm in 12, this is terrible. There's an airplane?

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Dude, and there's like wave runners and stuff too. It's pretty sick.

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There's another curve ball. What?

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ASUS and Microsoft have partnered up allegedly

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on the Ally 2, turning it into an Xbox branded console.

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We expect that it will be everything the Ally X is,

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but better, and with integration with Xbox and Game Pass.

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So then should I rule this one out? Why don't we have a look at the leaks together, okay?

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There's leaks. Employees just tell the worlds

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what secrets are being made.

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I think I have sheltered him. Was it already gonna be hard enough without any more curve balls?

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Yeah. Are you ready to eliminate anything from the table?

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How will I get all of them?

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No. Okay, I'll put this one back.

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Why'd you put that one back? I put it back because it's really heavy

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and would tire my arms quick. That's fair. That one also has a worse battery life than this one.

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Yes, these two both have better battery life than that. This is the most performant,

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but with less battery life, and this is the best battery life out of the PC handhelds.

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Yeah. Okay, here's the Ally 2. Kind of like an Ally X,

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but you can see it has more like a controller style grip.

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We also expect that if the specs are what they are supposed to be,

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it will probably have the best performance out of all the PC handhelds

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and probably the best battery life. But we don't know exactly how much.

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Could some of these just not be true and they're just lying?

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That is possible, but don't ask me how I know.

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They're true. Okay.

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When is it going to come out? I'm flying to see it tomorrow morning.

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Okay, so should I just not get anything and get that? You have to choose something.

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You walk out of here today with something, with a choice.

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Do I actually have to choose right now? Yeah.

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That's life. Well, no, that's not life. That's content.

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Here's our options. Big moment. Switch to, Ally X, claw,

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or roll the dice on an Ally 2.

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How many new games are coming out for the Switch 2? Lots.

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It looks like game developer support is going to be extremely strong.

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Plus, of course, there's the back catalog of Switch games.

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It is backwards compatible and you can count on Nintendo to release banger after banger.

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I'll pick the Switch 2 then. You pick the Switch 2? Yeah.

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Okay. I ultimately chose the Switch 2

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because of how many big games are supposed to come out for it and that I can still play my Switch 1 games

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on the Switch 2 if I want. I do have a desktop and I can already play Steam games,

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but if I didn't have one, I would probably choose one of the PCs to get access to all of those.

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The games are really expensive. Over 100 Canadian dollars.

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Each? Like for a single game?

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Do I have to pay for the games? Unless it's a game that I want to play.

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Does it have any games already on it? It has Mario Kart World

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and you can play your existing Switch games.

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$100?

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Okay, sure. Yeah. Happy birthday. Thanks.

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And happy birthday to our sponsor.

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What's... What's... If you guys enjoyed this video,

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why don't you check out this other one that my son and I did together?

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We don't fake our videos, boy. The answer doesn't change when the camera turns off.

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I don't know, off camera. Can I just like have two of them? No.

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Do I have to decide today? Yeah.

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Okay.