WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.960 Happy birthday, son! 00:00:04.960 --> 00:00:08.240 Here is the Switch 2 I promised you. 00:00:08.240 --> 00:00:12.360 And you can have it as soon as I make sure that you're not making the biggest mistake 00:00:12.360 --> 00:00:17.420 of your young life. You see, there are a ton of amazing handheld gaming devices 00:00:17.420 --> 00:00:21.880 these days and I think you should at least try them before making your decision. 00:00:21.880 --> 00:00:25.640 And the question will be, are you gonna stick with Nintendo's latest 00:00:25.640 --> 00:00:29.000 or are you gonna take the plunge into the big boy pool? 00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:33.380 Like, because some of the PC competitors are really big. 00:00:33.380 --> 00:00:36.880 Not because adults can't enjoy Mario Kart. I like Mario Kart. 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:40.920 So here's the deal. You're gonna try eight different gaming handhelds today. 00:00:40.920 --> 00:00:43.960 And if you like one of them, more than you like the Switch 2, 00:00:43.960 --> 00:00:49.600 you can take that home instead. But there's a catch. Should you choose something other than the Switch 2, 00:00:49.600 --> 00:00:54.800 I'm not buying you a Switch 2. Just like I'm not gonna buy you the Segway to our sponsor. 00:00:55.800 --> 00:01:05.640 The reason I'm excited for the Switch 2, 00:01:05.640 --> 00:01:10.640 it's like a brand new console and it's really the only console I know about. 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:15.360 The new Mario Kart sounds pretty fun. Also the upgraded versions of Breath of the Wild 00:01:15.360 --> 00:01:19.160 and Tears of the Kingdom. The backwards compatibility is important 00:01:19.160 --> 00:01:24.640 because even though Mario Kart World might be better than Mario Kart 8, I might still wanna play that sometimes. 00:01:24.640 --> 00:01:30.160 If I'm going to see my cousins and I'm bringing a handheld, battery life would be kind of important, 00:01:30.160 --> 00:01:34.400 but I can also just bring a charger and charge it while I'm playing. So it's not like a deal breaker. 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:39.160 It's not a deal breaker for sure. You're gonna get me to try eight consoles in an hour 00:01:39.160 --> 00:01:44.800 and decide between one of them? Yes. Let's start with the 800 pound gorilla, the Steam Deck. 00:01:44.800 --> 00:01:48.520 While it might not be the most powerful of our choices today, 00:01:48.520 --> 00:01:53.160 there is a reason that is the most popular. Steam OS is slick as heck, 00:01:53.160 --> 00:01:56.880 not to mention just plain more efficient than Windows. 00:01:56.880 --> 00:02:01.520 And Valve's understanding of gaming shines through in every aspect of its design. 00:02:01.520 --> 00:02:06.360 Its only drawback is that it has a limited game library, 00:02:06.360 --> 00:02:10.440 but that's only compared to Windows handhelds. Compared to Big Red, 00:02:10.440 --> 00:02:14.920 the Steam Deck's game library is expansive, not to mention way more affordable 00:02:14.920 --> 00:02:17.920 because you can play most of the games 00:02:17.920 --> 00:02:23.040 that you can get on Steam. We've got a couple of games preloaded, but the most important one is probably split fiction, 00:02:23.040 --> 00:02:27.160 not because I think it'll be your favorite game ever, but because it is cross-platform 00:02:27.160 --> 00:02:30.360 and available on all of our systems. Any initial impressions? 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:35.440 This mouse pad is so cool. Yeah, the dual track pads on this thing, 00:02:35.440 --> 00:02:39.480 actually very cool. You can use them for mouse aiming with some practice 00:02:39.480 --> 00:02:42.560 and they have haptic feedback as you noticed already. 00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:47.520 They also have momentum, so you can kind of throw them and you'll feel them vibrate. 00:02:47.520 --> 00:02:51.120 They're very configurable. And if you wanna play something like 00:02:51.160 --> 00:02:55.000 a strategy game on the go, they're useful for that as well. 00:02:55.000 --> 00:02:58.640 It's very big. Yes. 00:02:58.640 --> 00:03:02.600 Is that a problem? Depends if I'm traveling somewhere 00:03:02.600 --> 00:03:06.280 and my suitcase is full. In terms of the ergonomic advantages, 00:03:06.280 --> 00:03:13.560 a lot of people really like that about the Steam Deck, but no, it's not as packable as something like a Switch. 00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:17.600 The D-pad's kind of small. It's hard to individually choose one 00:03:17.600 --> 00:03:23.720 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. 00:03:23.720 --> 00:03:26.720 Do you wanna play around with SteamOS at all? SteamOS? 00:03:26.720 --> 00:03:30.520 What's SteamOS? SteamOS is the operating system that Valve developed 00:03:30.520 --> 00:03:34.200 for the Steam Deck that only basically runs Steam. 00:03:34.200 --> 00:03:37.480 Okay, sure. You can use it in desktop mode with other applications, 00:03:37.480 --> 00:03:41.680 but it's actually Linux-based. It is not Windows or Nintendo. 00:03:41.680 --> 00:03:47.480 It is their own thing. So you've got the Steam button here, which allows you to access all of Steam. 00:03:47.480 --> 00:03:51.280 And this little three dots here 00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:56.400 gives you access to all of your system settings. That's very quick and useful. 00:03:56.400 --> 00:03:59.600 I like that. It is way better than the implementation 00:03:59.600 --> 00:04:03.120 on Windows handhelds. It also gives the Steam Deck excellent efficiency 00:04:03.120 --> 00:04:10.440 if you're running lighter games like David Diver and it will instantly suspend and resume 00:04:11.960 --> 00:04:16.840 like something like a Nintendo rather than taking a while to boot up like Windows. 00:04:16.840 --> 00:04:21.480 There are drawbacks though. It's one of the least-performant out of all the handhelds we're gonna look at today 00:04:21.480 --> 00:04:25.760 and the screen, honestly, not amazing by today's standards. 00:04:25.760 --> 00:04:28.960 Of course, there is another. 00:04:28.960 --> 00:04:33.560 Meet the Steam Deck OLED. Is this the same as that one? 00:04:33.560 --> 00:04:36.720 Well, not quite. The difference is right in the name. 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:41.560 It's a Steam Deck, but with an OLED display and it is beautiful. 00:04:41.560 --> 00:04:45.240 A thousand-nits peak brightness, perfect blacks, HDR, 00:04:45.240 --> 00:04:48.440 they've done an outstanding job with this thing. 00:04:48.440 --> 00:04:52.640 If this is the same as the other Steam Deck but it just has a better screen, is it just better? 00:04:52.640 --> 00:04:58.560 Yes, it's also a little faster. Okay. And to show off just how much performance is on tap here, 00:04:58.560 --> 00:05:03.800 we actually loaded up the Legend of Zelda, Breath of the Wild, a Nintendo exclusive game, 00:05:03.800 --> 00:05:07.600 in an emulator so you could try it and see what the experience is like. 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:10.680 I would tap it. Realistically, I don't think it's gonna be much laggier 00:05:10.680 --> 00:05:14.640 than the Switch One, but it's not gonna hold a candle to the Switch Two. 00:05:14.640 --> 00:05:20.440 However, what do you think of the display? It's very bright, it's a lot better than the other one. 00:05:20.440 --> 00:05:25.720 Gets really laggy when I hit it for a second. Yeah, but the battery life is even better 00:05:25.720 --> 00:05:29.000 than the original Steam Deck. Okay, why don't we move on? 00:05:29.860 --> 00:05:34.160 If more performance is what you're after, this may be your poison. 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:38.200 This is the same thing you have, so if I wanted to use one, I could just ask you to borrow it. 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:43.540 Okay, that's hacking. Hacking is not allowed. Back to the script. 00:05:43.540 --> 00:05:45.180 You may be familiar with this one. 00:05:47.180 --> 00:05:50.660 It's the one I use at home. Obviously, he's familiar with it, 00:05:50.660 --> 00:05:53.700 but for the rest of you, the main draw of the ROG Ally 00:05:53.700 --> 00:05:59.500 is the inclusion of AMD's Z1 Extreme Processor, a chip that is so much more powerful than the Steam Deck 00:05:59.500 --> 00:06:03.300 that it easily overcomes any of Windows' inefficiencies. 00:06:03.300 --> 00:06:07.060 Well, as long as we ignore battery life in later games 00:06:07.060 --> 00:06:10.460 and ignore the kind of cludgy general experience 00:06:10.460 --> 00:06:15.380 of navigating Windows on a handheld device, Microsoft has some work to do. 00:06:15.380 --> 00:06:18.700 By the way, this and all of the devices that we've got today are gonna be linked 00:06:18.700 --> 00:06:22.260 in the video description. This one, the story for the screen is a bit more complicated. 00:06:22.260 --> 00:06:25.500 It's 1080p, so higher resolution compared to the Steam Deck, 00:06:25.500 --> 00:06:28.780 but it's not OLED, but it can do up to 120 Hertz. 00:06:28.780 --> 00:06:33.180 So for supported games, it'll be smoother, kind of like your monitor at home. 00:06:33.180 --> 00:06:38.020 Oh, also, the interface for changing things, right there. 00:06:38.020 --> 00:06:41.420 So you can adjust your brightness, change your performance mode. 00:06:41.420 --> 00:06:47.220 You won't get much battery life out of the higher performance modes, but hey, it's really fast. 00:06:47.220 --> 00:06:50.660 Okay, let's try Turbo. You're gonna get like an hour of battery life 00:06:50.660 --> 00:06:54.060 if you're lucky on that mode. 48 minutes. 00:06:54.060 --> 00:06:58.420 48 minutes? Yeah, on that battery mode, yeah. No, you don't wanna run it on that. 00:06:58.420 --> 00:07:02.580 Oh, now it's so slow. What if I told you there was an Ally, 00:07:02.580 --> 00:07:06.820 but with better battery life? That would be cool. Okay, let's have a look. 00:07:06.820 --> 00:07:10.620 Here you go, brace yourself, she's heavier. Not by that much though, when you consider 00:07:10.620 --> 00:07:14.980 that it went from a 40-watt hour battery to an 80-watt hour battery. 00:07:14.980 --> 00:07:21.420 They literally doubled the capacity of the battery, which results in at least two hours of battery life, 00:07:21.420 --> 00:07:26.580 even in the higher performance modes, and as much as a lot more hours. 00:07:26.580 --> 00:07:30.060 Is this one just the same as the other one with higher battery life? 00:07:30.060 --> 00:07:34.900 In general, yes. Oh, we actually made a small mistake on the RAM speed, 00:07:34.900 --> 00:07:38.580 so they increased the speed of the memory from 6,400 megatransitters per second 00:07:38.580 --> 00:07:42.740 to 7,500 megatransitters per second, which does make it a bit faster. 00:07:42.740 --> 00:07:47.980 It also has a little bit more memory, but in general, it's same-same, but better. 00:07:47.980 --> 00:07:52.460 This one's way smoother and higher FPS than the other one we played Breath of the Wild on. 00:07:52.460 --> 00:07:56.580 Yes. It's also in the highest mode though, so I don't know. 00:07:56.580 --> 00:07:59.860 But what's nice about this is that it has such a big battery 00:07:59.860 --> 00:08:05.420 that you can actually run it in the highest power mode for an amount of time. 00:08:05.460 --> 00:08:08.660 See like it's lagging a bit right now? I don't know, you tell me, you're playing. 00:08:08.660 --> 00:08:12.220 It does a little bit. Emulation is not going to be perfect 00:08:12.220 --> 00:08:17.660 unless you have an extremely powerful system. And this is a fast handheld, 00:08:17.660 --> 00:08:22.260 but it's not an extremely powerful system even so. 00:08:22.260 --> 00:08:26.220 Okay, but why? I don't know. 00:08:26.220 --> 00:08:31.340 I was just trying to hit something. I didn't know it would... What did you think an explosive barrel was going to do? 00:08:31.340 --> 00:08:34.660 Yet more proof as if you needed it, that no matter how good your gear is, 00:08:34.660 --> 00:08:39.460 it's not going to make you a better gamer. Now there are some things about the LIX that aren't great. 00:08:39.460 --> 00:08:45.540 It still has the same display as the original LI, which is fine, and it's significantly more expensive. 00:08:45.540 --> 00:08:49.900 But given you're not paying for your system, I guess that's a non-factor for you. 00:08:49.900 --> 00:08:54.860 Where does this rank for you? Probably at the very top. What if I told you that you could have the performance 00:08:54.860 --> 00:08:58.060 of this with the removable controllers of the Switch? 00:08:58.060 --> 00:09:03.540 That would be even better. Let's have a look. This time for real, she is a chunky boy. 00:09:05.100 --> 00:09:08.220 That's very heavy compared to all the other ones. 00:09:08.220 --> 00:09:11.900 The benefit is this is the biggest screen we've seen yet. 00:09:11.900 --> 00:09:19.260 8.8 inches and the highest resolution. It does 1440p up to 144 Hertz. 00:09:19.260 --> 00:09:23.300 Small drawback. Remember the battery life issues of the first-gen ally? 00:09:23.300 --> 00:09:28.380 Yeah. Basically the same. How long would it last for in its highest performance mode? 00:09:28.380 --> 00:09:32.700 A little over an hour. Okay. What do all of these buttons on the back do? 00:09:32.700 --> 00:09:37.220 Oh, well, those are paddles. So you can bind them to any functions that you want. 00:09:37.220 --> 00:09:40.980 In fact, a lot of the ones we've looked at so far do have rear paddles. 00:09:40.980 --> 00:09:45.380 One of them, ah, yes, slides off the controllers. 00:09:46.300 --> 00:09:48.900 There we go. And this is cool. 00:09:50.420 --> 00:09:53.580 Boop, that's a pretty cool use case, right? That's awesome. 00:09:53.580 --> 00:09:56.740 Especially because it's so heavy you wouldn't want to hold it. 00:09:56.740 --> 00:10:00.420 Why don't you fire up a Tomb Raider? 00:10:00.420 --> 00:10:04.660 The buttons are really small compared to some of the other ones, though. 00:10:04.660 --> 00:10:08.900 It's not my favorite controller, but one nice thing is that on at least one side of it, 00:10:08.900 --> 00:10:13.260 it does have a trackpad. Oh, I didn't even notice that. 00:10:13.260 --> 00:10:17.500 That's why I'm here for the tech tips. Papa tech tips. 00:10:19.500 --> 00:10:23.820 At this point, seeing all the options that are out there, are you a little less confident 00:10:23.820 --> 00:10:27.340 that you want to switch to for your birthday? Or are you still pretty confident? 00:10:27.340 --> 00:10:30.460 A little bit. These are all very cool and fast 00:10:30.500 --> 00:10:34.820 and a lot better than I expected for such a small device. 00:10:34.820 --> 00:10:38.140 This is just a gorgeous game that even a few short years ago, 00:10:38.140 --> 00:10:41.140 you would have needed a full-sized gaming PC to run. 00:10:41.140 --> 00:10:45.220 And it runs on this. Of course, you won't always be able to just put it down on something, 00:10:45.220 --> 00:10:48.580 so you should try it handheld. Okay. 00:10:48.580 --> 00:10:51.900 How does it feel? It's very heavy. 00:10:51.900 --> 00:10:55.100 If I was to hold this for half an hour, an hour, 00:10:55.100 --> 00:10:59.580 I think my arms would get pretty tired. It does have another party trick. 00:10:59.580 --> 00:11:00.420 Check this out. 00:11:05.180 --> 00:11:06.260 FPS mode. 00:11:08.180 --> 00:11:14.540 That becomes a mouse. But that's something that's there overly. 00:11:14.540 --> 00:11:18.260 So you can see performance and you can change your modes and all that. 00:11:18.260 --> 00:11:20.260 This menu's legier than the game is. 00:11:21.300 --> 00:11:24.780 Okay, that's fair. I would like to change gears completely 00:11:24.780 --> 00:11:29.100 and go from our heaviest device to our lightest one. 00:11:30.580 --> 00:11:34.340 Can I get a longer time trying every single one of them 00:11:34.340 --> 00:11:37.860 before deciding? No. 00:11:37.860 --> 00:11:41.100 Do I actually have to decide today? Yeah, but you thought I was like 00:11:41.100 --> 00:11:43.980 giving you a different answer on camera than- I don't know. 00:11:44.900 --> 00:11:48.100 It's, I'm choosing a console. Yeah. 00:11:48.100 --> 00:11:52.820 Meet the PlayStation Portal. This is not actually a console, 00:11:52.820 --> 00:11:59.020 but the combo deal here is on offer because the price of a PS Portal and a PlayStation 5 00:11:59.140 --> 00:12:02.780 is actually less than some of the handheld PCs 00:12:02.780 --> 00:12:07.340 that we've looked at today. The joystick's not in a very comfortable position. 00:12:07.340 --> 00:12:12.420 That's PlayStation style. You do get used to it, but yes, it is not my preference 00:12:12.420 --> 00:12:16.500 either, the symmetrical joystick position versus the asymmetrical Xbox style. 00:12:16.500 --> 00:12:21.660 I'm also not a huge fan of their D-pad style, but they do have advantages in their controller 00:12:21.660 --> 00:12:27.340 and one is that their haptics are excellent. Also, this is compared to anything else 00:12:27.340 --> 00:12:31.220 we're looking at today, the most powerful gaming solution. 00:12:31.220 --> 00:12:34.460 It's only 1080p, but it is a locked 60 FPS 00:12:34.460 --> 00:12:38.140 with absolutely gorgeous levels of detail. 00:12:38.140 --> 00:12:41.540 It's also the least flexible solution in a way that I'll explain in a little bit, 00:12:41.540 --> 00:12:44.660 but why don't you give it a shot first? Which buttons A and which ones B? 00:12:49.220 --> 00:12:53.500 Not really a PlayStation house. Never seen a PlayStation, I don't know. 00:12:53.500 --> 00:12:56.740 Do any of your friends have PlayStations? One of them does. Oh, okay. 00:12:56.740 --> 00:13:00.900 Have you ever used it? No. Okay, well, it doesn't have A, B. 00:13:00.900 --> 00:13:03.900 Well, which one confirms in which one goes wrong? Can't remember. 00:13:03.900 --> 00:13:08.780 Okay. Look at the visual fidelity though. Okay, you haven't actually tried the Switch 2 yet, 00:13:08.780 --> 00:13:15.100 but here it is. I'm like, look at the detail level by comparison. 00:13:15.100 --> 00:13:21.100 Another great thing about the Portal is Sony's amazing game library, but here's the thing. 00:13:21.100 --> 00:13:25.180 While this has the best battery life, also out of anything that we've tested, 00:13:25.180 --> 00:13:28.260 the reason is that there's no game console in it. 00:13:29.380 --> 00:13:33.020 It is streaming wirelessly from that PlayStation over there, 00:13:33.020 --> 00:13:38.340 which means... I need a PlayStation? Yes, not only do you need a PlayStation, 00:13:38.340 --> 00:13:42.140 but you need an active internet connection to your PlayStation. 00:13:42.140 --> 00:13:45.420 And the closer you are to your PlayStation, the better the experience, 00:13:45.420 --> 00:13:48.900 and the farther you are from your PlayStation, the worse the experience 00:13:48.900 --> 00:13:51.940 in terms of especially input latency. 00:13:51.940 --> 00:13:56.300 That would be really annoying then because bringing a PlayStation somewhere is very hard. 00:13:56.300 --> 00:14:00.180 You can play from elsewhere, but the farther you are, 00:14:00.180 --> 00:14:03.540 the worse the internet connection. Why don't we shift our attention back to consoles 00:14:03.540 --> 00:14:06.620 that are actually consoles rather than streaming devices? 00:14:06.620 --> 00:14:12.300 These are our last two. We've got the Ionio 3, which unfortunately didn't perform as well as we hoped, 00:14:12.300 --> 00:14:16.820 but has an OLED screen and this super cool modular interface 00:14:16.820 --> 00:14:20.260 where you can actually swap this around depending on what games you're playing 00:14:20.260 --> 00:14:23.340 and whether you want to be able to reach a D-pad or a joystick more easily, 00:14:23.340 --> 00:14:26.380 and same here for the ABXY and the Touchpad. 00:14:26.380 --> 00:14:31.020 We've also got the MSI Claw, an unexpected standout. 00:14:31.020 --> 00:14:34.540 This ended up being the best performing PC handheld in our roundup 00:14:34.540 --> 00:14:38.860 thanks to some recent driver tweaks from Intel. The fans are pretty loud for this one. 00:14:38.860 --> 00:14:42.460 Yeah, you haven't even fired anything up yet. That's the yikes. 00:14:42.460 --> 00:14:45.680 Oh, do you want to try out the modular interface? Yeah. There we go. 00:14:45.680 --> 00:14:46.520 One click, pop up. 00:14:50.340 --> 00:14:53.980 That's pretty cool. Not gonna lie. 00:14:53.980 --> 00:14:58.460 Now is it in the configuration that you'd prefer? Yeah. Okay, fire up a game. 00:14:58.460 --> 00:15:01.980 Those fans are pretty loud. They really are. 00:15:01.980 --> 00:15:06.140 Oh yeah, Trackpad's working. Okay, the Trackpad. It's definitely a Trackpad. There's a joystick ABXY, 00:15:06.140 --> 00:15:09.220 so you wouldn't be stuck with the Trackpad if you didn't want it. 00:15:09.220 --> 00:15:10.420 Just needs more volume. 00:15:12.740 --> 00:15:15.780 There, now the fans aren't a problem, right? 00:15:15.780 --> 00:15:18.860 Yeah, but I would never play with them this loud. 00:15:18.860 --> 00:15:21.900 Okay, fine. Why don't we try the claw? 00:15:23.020 --> 00:15:28.540 Does this one have a higher refresh rate than the other ones? It's not higher than all of the other ones, 00:15:28.540 --> 00:15:31.740 but it's 120 Hertz, which is at the high end, 00:15:31.740 --> 00:15:35.760 and because it performs so well, you are actually getting more benefit 00:15:35.760 --> 00:15:39.020 out of that higher refresh rate display. This is very smooth. 00:15:39.020 --> 00:15:42.580 It's a lot of performance. It's a chunky package, 00:15:42.580 --> 00:15:49.740 but you get a big eight inch display, and reasonable fan noise. 00:15:50.180 --> 00:15:53.860 In terms of battery life, it's between the Ally and the AllyX, 00:15:53.860 --> 00:15:59.340 but closer to the AllyX, like an hour 40 in even a very high performance profile. 00:15:59.340 --> 00:16:01.780 That's pretty good. It's pretty good, 00:16:02.700 --> 00:16:06.100 but what it isn't as good as is the Switch 2. 00:16:06.100 --> 00:16:09.340 Are you ready to try the Switch 2? Yeah, I wanna see how it compares to these. 00:16:09.340 --> 00:16:14.060 Still in the mix is the RG AllyX, the Legion Go, and the claw. 00:16:14.060 --> 00:16:19.260 What do you like best and least about each of them? Okay, this one, I like the fast refresh rate 00:16:19.260 --> 00:16:22.820 and the big screen. So the performance essentially? Yeah, performance. 00:16:22.820 --> 00:16:26.220 Because all of these have 120 Hertz plus displays, 00:16:26.220 --> 00:16:29.700 but this is the more performance of the three. What about the others? 00:16:29.700 --> 00:16:34.020 This one was battery life and fast, and it's not as heavy as the really big ones. 00:16:34.020 --> 00:16:41.020 You don't get as big of a screen, but it's significantly more totable. 00:16:41.300 --> 00:16:44.380 And this one, I like the detachable Joy-Cons 00:16:44.380 --> 00:16:48.380 in this little mouse pad and the big screen. 00:16:48.380 --> 00:16:52.220 But this is a funny thing. 00:16:52.220 --> 00:16:55.660 Even though the Switch 2, this is now your first time holding it, I think, right? 00:16:55.660 --> 00:16:59.700 Yeah. Even though the Switch 2 is so slim compared to these, 00:16:59.700 --> 00:17:03.260 the same thickness as the original Switch and the Switch OLED, 00:17:03.260 --> 00:17:06.260 its screen is among the largest that we've seen 00:17:06.260 --> 00:17:09.900 at 7.9 inches. So smaller than the Legion Go, 00:17:09.900 --> 00:17:13.060 but just shy of the claw. Wow. 00:17:13.060 --> 00:17:18.660 It also has a 120 Hertz display, and it supports HDR, just like the Steam Deck OLED. 00:17:18.660 --> 00:17:21.740 Yeah, why don't you fire up Breath of the Wild? Because that's the game that you've been playing 00:17:21.740 --> 00:17:25.220 on the others. Nintendo Switch 2 Edition. Yes. 00:17:25.220 --> 00:17:29.060 For an extra 15 Canadian dollars, you can upgrade Breath of the Wild 00:17:29.060 --> 00:17:33.620 to look better and run better. Does it get any other bonus features? 00:17:33.620 --> 00:17:36.820 I think so, but like, nothing that's a huge deal. 00:17:36.820 --> 00:17:41.260 You get another save slot, I think, or something? I don't know. The big ones are that it's prettier 00:17:41.260 --> 00:17:45.500 and that it runs better. I like that it's a lot bigger than the Switch, the other Switch. 00:17:45.500 --> 00:17:51.660 Yeah, it's especially nice when you remove the Joy-Cons and you're using them in Joy-Con controller mode. 00:17:51.660 --> 00:17:56.900 I think it's actually kind of usable. Also, this is sick. The Joy-Cons are magnetic now. 00:17:56.900 --> 00:18:00.220 Oh. So you just... Wow, that's way better. 00:18:00.220 --> 00:18:03.540 Do you want to hear any drawbacks yet, or do you just want to enjoy it first? 00:18:03.540 --> 00:18:07.980 Just enjoy it first. Okay. That's fair, that's valid. 00:18:07.980 --> 00:18:11.140 Obviously, the interface is what you're familiar with, so if you want to adjust your brightness 00:18:11.140 --> 00:18:14.180 or volume or anything, just, yep. 00:18:14.540 --> 00:18:18.220 Hold it, but sure. No, what? You don't know about the... 00:18:18.220 --> 00:18:20.420 Go back in the game, go back in the game. Hold here. 00:18:21.740 --> 00:18:25.180 There you go. Oh, I didn't even know you could do that on the other one. 00:18:25.180 --> 00:18:29.780 I've let him down. It's not an OLED, but it is an HDR display 00:18:29.780 --> 00:18:34.180 and it is pretty gorgeous from my limited time with it so far. 00:18:34.180 --> 00:18:37.540 Everything's way brighter and cleaner than the other. 00:18:37.540 --> 00:18:41.500 Sure is. Not only do games run at a higher frame rate, 00:18:41.500 --> 00:18:45.180 but the screen is a higher resolution compared to the original Switch as well. 00:18:45.180 --> 00:18:48.220 Do these Joy-Cons have as much drift as the Switch One? 00:18:48.220 --> 00:18:52.380 We don't know yet. They might be okay, but they're not Hall of Facts, 00:18:52.380 --> 00:18:56.100 so they might not be okay. Yeah, all of our Joy-Cons drift really bad. 00:18:56.100 --> 00:18:58.660 Well, this scene's way better than the other one. 00:19:04.260 --> 00:19:09.380 It's way better than the other Switch. The quality's higher, refresh rate's higher. 00:19:09.380 --> 00:19:11.260 The sound is so much better. 00:19:14.340 --> 00:19:17.340 Let's put the point back to where she's at. 00:19:17.340 --> 00:19:21.900 That's so cool. Okay, these ones are so big. 00:19:21.900 --> 00:19:25.860 They're like actually the right size for my hands. 00:19:25.860 --> 00:19:30.300 And they're magnetic. That's really, really cool. It's so smooth. 00:19:30.300 --> 00:19:34.860 It's so much brighter, cleaner, faster than this one. 00:19:34.860 --> 00:19:38.620 Well, yeah. And this is even the OLED. And it's- 00:19:38.620 --> 00:19:44.580 So this has the benefit of having arguably the better display, but Nintendo didn't put in the work 00:19:44.580 --> 00:19:50.700 to implement HDR on this. So this is probably gonna look better day to day. 00:19:52.100 --> 00:19:55.620 Although, whoa, that contrast though. But the frame rate blows. 00:19:56.580 --> 00:20:03.140 Yeah, so you can really see the color saturation on the OLED, but you get the peak brightness from HDR. 00:20:03.140 --> 00:20:06.460 If they do a Switch to OLED, which they almost certainly will at some point, 00:20:06.460 --> 00:20:09.420 you would get the best of both worlds, but that doesn't exist yet. 00:20:09.460 --> 00:20:13.300 And I'm not promising to buy you one of those. So, do you wanna play Mario Kart World? 00:20:13.300 --> 00:20:17.100 Yeah, let's play Mario Kart. Oh, these are actually big. On the Switch one, these were tiny 00:20:17.100 --> 00:20:21.420 and they're so hard to press. Huge improvement. 00:20:21.420 --> 00:20:25.340 Dude, I'm in 12, this is terrible. There's an airplane? 00:20:26.260 --> 00:20:29.460 Dude, and there's like wave runners and stuff too. It's pretty sick. 00:20:29.460 --> 00:20:32.500 There's another curve ball. What? 00:20:32.500 --> 00:20:36.780 ASUS and Microsoft have partnered up allegedly 00:20:36.780 --> 00:20:41.500 on the Ally 2, turning it into an Xbox branded console. 00:20:41.500 --> 00:20:45.100 We expect that it will be everything the Ally X is, 00:20:45.100 --> 00:20:49.260 but better, and with integration with Xbox and Game Pass. 00:20:49.260 --> 00:20:54.300 So then should I rule this one out? Why don't we have a look at the leaks together, okay? 00:20:54.300 --> 00:20:57.740 There's leaks. Employees just tell the worlds 00:20:57.740 --> 00:21:00.500 what secrets are being made. 00:21:02.380 --> 00:21:06.340 I think I have sheltered him. Was it already gonna be hard enough without any more curve balls? 00:21:06.340 --> 00:21:10.380 Yeah. Are you ready to eliminate anything from the table? 00:21:12.900 --> 00:21:14.580 How will I get all of them? 00:21:16.660 --> 00:21:20.580 No. Okay, I'll put this one back. 00:21:20.580 --> 00:21:23.900 Why'd you put that one back? I put it back because it's really heavy 00:21:23.900 --> 00:21:30.380 and would tire my arms quick. That's fair. That one also has a worse battery life than this one. 00:21:30.380 --> 00:21:34.820 Yes, these two both have better battery life than that. This is the most performant, 00:21:34.820 --> 00:21:39.300 but with less battery life, and this is the best battery life out of the PC handhelds. 00:21:39.300 --> 00:21:43.300 Yeah. Okay, here's the Ally 2. Kind of like an Ally X, 00:21:43.300 --> 00:21:47.460 but you can see it has more like a controller style grip. 00:21:47.460 --> 00:21:51.980 We also expect that if the specs are what they are supposed to be, 00:21:51.980 --> 00:21:55.460 it will probably have the best performance out of all the PC handhelds 00:21:55.460 --> 00:21:59.860 and probably the best battery life. But we don't know exactly how much. 00:22:00.980 --> 00:22:05.580 Could some of these just not be true and they're just lying? 00:22:05.580 --> 00:22:09.180 That is possible, but don't ask me how I know. 00:22:09.180 --> 00:22:11.060 They're true. Okay. 00:22:14.420 --> 00:22:19.300 When is it going to come out? I'm flying to see it tomorrow morning. 00:22:19.300 --> 00:22:23.740 Okay, so should I just not get anything and get that? You have to choose something. 00:22:23.740 --> 00:22:27.820 You walk out of here today with something, with a choice. 00:22:29.140 --> 00:22:32.340 Do I actually have to choose right now? Yeah. 00:22:32.660 --> 00:22:35.780 That's life. Well, no, that's not life. That's content. 00:22:37.700 --> 00:22:43.340 Here's our options. Big moment. Switch to, Ally X, claw, 00:22:43.340 --> 00:22:46.780 or roll the dice on an Ally 2. 00:22:46.780 --> 00:22:50.020 How many new games are coming out for the Switch 2? Lots. 00:22:50.020 --> 00:22:53.540 It looks like game developer support is going to be extremely strong. 00:22:53.540 --> 00:22:56.660 Plus, of course, there's the back catalog of Switch games. 00:22:56.660 --> 00:23:01.300 It is backwards compatible and you can count on Nintendo to release banger after banger. 00:23:01.300 --> 00:23:04.540 I'll pick the Switch 2 then. You pick the Switch 2? Yeah. 00:23:04.540 --> 00:23:08.500 Okay. I ultimately chose the Switch 2 00:23:08.500 --> 00:23:12.700 because of how many big games are supposed to come out for it and that I can still play my Switch 1 games 00:23:12.700 --> 00:23:17.180 on the Switch 2 if I want. I do have a desktop and I can already play Steam games, 00:23:17.180 --> 00:23:22.380 but if I didn't have one, I would probably choose one of the PCs to get access to all of those. 00:23:22.380 --> 00:23:25.860 The games are really expensive. Over 100 Canadian dollars. 00:23:25.860 --> 00:23:28.700 Each? Like for a single game? 00:23:29.700 --> 00:23:33.900 Do I have to pay for the games? Unless it's a game that I want to play. 00:23:33.900 --> 00:23:37.580 Does it have any games already on it? It has Mario Kart World 00:23:37.580 --> 00:23:40.180 and you can play your existing Switch games. 00:23:44.340 --> 00:23:45.940 $100? 00:23:51.380 --> 00:23:55.140 Okay, sure. Yeah. Happy birthday. Thanks. 00:23:55.140 --> 00:23:57.940 And happy birthday to our sponsor. 00:23:59.700 --> 00:24:03.540 What's... What's... If you guys enjoyed this video, 00:24:03.540 --> 00:24:06.940 why don't you check out this other one that my son and I did together? 00:24:08.100 --> 00:24:11.860 We don't fake our videos, boy. The answer doesn't change when the camera turns off. 00:24:11.860 --> 00:24:15.260 I don't know, off camera. Can I just like have two of them? No. 00:24:16.420 --> 00:24:18.340 Do I have to decide today? Yeah. 00:24:19.540 --> 00:24:20.340 Okay.