
To heap on an extra $99 cost to a $300 gaming system is a lot.

But he declined, saying he didn't play the Switch often enough and that the $99 price tag wasn't worth it for such a subtle change in quality. Upon seeing non-mClassic gameplay, I told him to consider getting the diminutive red and black device. My friend also sports an LG OLED, making it an even comparison for my eyes. It was while I was at a friend's house that I noticed how blurry and jagged Switch games looked on a 4K display minus the mClassic. When playing games like Animal Crossing: New Horizons or Splatoon 2, my eyes grew tuned to the smoother edges the mClassic was helping output. It's an excellent TV, but with a 3840 x 2160 resolution, lower scale content can end up looking blurry. That’s absolutely fine.īut for those wanting an uptick in visuals ahead of BOTW 2, or coming to the Switch console family for the first time, the Switch OLED takes a measured look at the future and chooses sensible improvements over high-resolution races it simply can’t win.I had been using the mClassic for about a year on my 55" LG OLED C9 TV.

The underlying performance of the existing Switch likely won’t change much with this new iteration, and anyone with a 2017-era console may find little reason to upgrade. Of course, an OLED panel won’t fix every problem, or even be for everyone. So it makes perfect sense for Nintendo to lean into this unique property of its console, making it even better, leaning into the Switch’s inherent strengths. The handheld display is something that Sony and Microsoft simply don’t offer – outside of cloud gaming on mobile devices, of course, which is still dependent on the phones and tablets made by other manufacturers, or at least not in tandem with these companies’ gaming divisions. Nintendo takes success into its own hands OLED images are very hard to beat, at least without very impress backlighting setups that can recreate the brightness control and contrast of an OLED screen, none of which is really possible on a display as small as this. There's a reason OLED is used in almost every premium television range, from LG and Sony to Panasonic and Vizio. Whether you’re shooting arrows in Breath of the Wild 2 or spraying paint at other players in Splatoon 3, the Switch OLED should only feel better to play. OLED is godsend for gaming, too, given high contrast levels only enhance the colors and outlines of gaming engine graphics – and given that the fast response time of OLED pixels ensures minimal lag and fast, responsive play. The ability to turn pixels off individually makes for incredibly deep blacks, with a stark contrast in comparison to bright whites and highlights on the screen. This ensures deeper color vibrancy, as well as incredible brightness control. OLED panels are largely superior to LCD ones, with self-emissive pixels that – as the name suggests – can emit their own light without a backlight.
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An OLED panel on the handheld console won’t change how games look when the Switch is docked – which anyway is so dependent on the quality of someone’s television display – but it means portable play is elevated to new heights. OLED is a much smarter and more Nintendo-like addition for an upgraded Switch. Breath of the Wild still had a gorgeous and massive open world when it launched back in 2017, and it’s clear that the Switch is able to hold its own in today’s console market, with the specs to play impressive and immersive games, whether that’s a flagship Zelda game or the dungeon crawler Hades. That doesn’t stop plenty of games looking great on the Switch, though.
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While plenty of AAA games can run on the existing Switch, they largely do so at a lower resolution and frame rate than their PS5 or Xbox Series X counterparts ( Doom Eternal is not pretty in handheld mode, trust me).

The Switch is a very underpowered machine compared to the other home consoles on the market, not least because it needs to be portable enough to work in handheld.
