The ongoing chip shortage, which has impacted everything from consumer electronics to cars and household appliances, is putting a continued squeeze on Nintendo’s production of Switch consoles. Going back and forth between the two in a direct comparison, the original Switch is certainly that much more muted in colour and there is a more noticeable framing around the screen, but if you don’t have the two side by side? You can’t miss what you don’t have. Perhaps I subconsciously just held the console a tiny bit closer to my face or the Switch OLED further away, but I’m also someone that can also pick up and happily swap to game on a Switch Lite without batting an eyelid. While the screen is obviously a delight, I can honestly say that picking up my original 2017 Switch didn’t cause me to fall off my chair in shock at the difference. Four years into the console’s life, the inherent value of this kind of hardware revision is reduced. The console isn’t any more powerful, so games that have exposed the console’s weaknesses over the past few years do exactly the same here… just that games running at sub-720p resolution like Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus or Apex Legends are stretched a little bigger on the face of the machine. The thing is that, outside of screen size, colour saturation and the fit and finish of the console, you’re not getting a different experience on the Switch OLED. Nintendo’s games tend to lead the way on their own consoles, and they continue to look fantastic here, as do indie efforts that don’t need raw power to look good. I hope there’s some way that developers can specifically target the Switch OLED’s screen to work around such edge cases, but 99% of the time the new screen is just a joy to play with. It’s almost too much at times, especially if you turn the brightness up, and things like the orange sidebar of the eShop actually becomes more difficult to read because of the minimal contrast to the words written on it. It’s the same reason why TVs have a dedicated showroom mode to try and sell how vibrant and bright they can be to you. Everything you play on it just ‘pops’ in a way that pleases the brain. Greens are greener, reds redder, blues… well, you get the idea. Turning it on for the first time, the screen immediately feels fuller and everything you view on it is more colourful and saturated. That point works exactly as expected, guaranteeing I’m getting the best speeds on both new and old Switch models, when WiFi can all too easily drop to the much slower 2.4Ghz range on a dual band router.īut if you’re buying this new Switch model, you’re doing so for one reason and one reason alone: the OLED screen. Sure, you lose a third port for charging or connecting wired controllers, but the overwhelming use here will have surely been for ethernet dongles for more reliable internet connections. That also reveals that the USB 3.0 port of old has been replaced with an ethernet port.
Again, it still has an almost identical design as the original (but again, it’s off-white now), but corners have been rounded off, the inner plastic is now smooth and glossy so you won’t have to fret about hard plastic edges scuffing your new screen, and the back panel can be removed completely instead of being on a hinge. Similar tweaks and changes have been made to the dock. The Switch OLED’s new dock adds an ethernet port.
#Switch it down full
Tabletop gamers rejoice for the full width kickstand. The Switch OLED screen takes pride of place on the console.
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