GamingTech - A Very Poor LCD Display / No Real HDR Support Switch 2 HDR, Tested On Display And In Docking Mode

Cakeboxer said:
Good for Nintendo that the vast majority just buys their stuff and never watch videos like this or don't care.
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Yep Nintendo hasn't done graphics or technology for 20 years. Why are people surprised? Go buy a fucking 5080 if you want to play Cyberpunk and switch on path tracing.
 
I mean he's basically complaining that it's not an OLED. Why is he talking about backlight bleed? (which looks incredibly uniform and well managed in the example he shows)
 
Robb said:
All impressions I've heard about the screen have been very positive so I wouldn't worry about it.
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I don't see any valid reason to doubt you
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He also says in the video that HDR on breath of the wild in docked mode looks washed out and terrible as well because it lacks contrast. So HDR isn't even being implemented correctly in there 1st party stuff while docked. He's doing an HDR test on mario kart world docked to see the results as well.
 
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Sebastian1295 said:
OLED should've been there at launch. They purposely held it back so that they could sell people an OLED refresh later.
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OLED also is not really a thing yet for 120Hz displays in that form factor. But regardless, it would've made the Switch 2 $549 at launch which is obviously not ideal. Give it time
 
Zathalus said:
Compared to a regular OLED panel I mean. Some of them (not the newer ones) struggled to get a fullscreen brightness anywhere close to 450nits.

But you are right, even among standard LCD screens, the Switch 2 isn't using the best.
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Which ones? Motorola's 250 GBP phone from last year has an LTPO OLED panel with a peak brightness of 3000 nits(!!) that can smoothly vary refresh rate between 1 Hz and 120 Hz. The cheap motorola from a year before the last year did 1000 nits, my nearly 4 year old pixel 6 pro that currently sells for less than 200GBP can pull off 1000 nits. You have to really go out of your way and be real cheap to stick to a 450 nits LCD panel in 2025.
 
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clarky said:
Hard to tell these days on Youtube if people are honest or not. I'll take a closer look, cheers.
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He's one of the sources that exposed just how broken RDR2 'HDR' was initially (and the changes that followed) and usually backs things with numbers/measurements, so not doing 'wibe tech' analysis like certain channels have been as of late.

That said - I'll watch this review later - at work now.
 
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Von Hugh said:
50 % price increase compared to Switch 1, by the way. And in some countries up to 100 % if you are getting shafted by the retailers.

Can't really see where the extra cost went.
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The Steam Deck OLED starts at $549, and the regular Steam Deck starts at $399. For the extra $50 you get a dock + Joy-Cons and a "docked mode", which doesn't exist on the Steam Deck. As well as physical games that can be resold.

Obviously the games and accessories cost more and there is less choice when compared with the PC. But the actual price of the console itself is arguably the best part of the value proposition. Why are you paying more? Because you're getting a system that is at least 5X faster than the old one, and components are not coming down in price as they have done in the past. Hence the price increases we have seen on the current gen consoles.
 
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Lol, a HDR review and the guy doesn't even encoded the video properly, he wants those early clicks ASAP. Try by yourself:



My review: the screen looks really good, not as good as the OLED for obvious reasons, but way better than the LCD on the Switch 1 by a really big margin, The pixel density way better than i Expected, very colorful, 120 fps + Nvidia Gsync, can't ask for more for a LCD Panel 8/10. In docked mode, tested on my LG Oled B2 and on my LCD TCL Series S6. The HDR Looks AMAZING in MKW 😍, gonna try FAST Fusion later.
 
LordOcidax said:
Lol, a HDR review and the guy doesn't even encoded the video properly, he wants those early clicks ASAP. Try by yourself:



My review: the screen looks really good, not as good as the OLED for obvious reasons, but way better than the LCD on the Switch 1 by a really big margin, The pixel density way better than i Expected, very colorful, 120 fps + Nvidia Gsync, can't ask for more for a LCD Panel 8/10. In docked mode, tested on my LG Oled B2 and on my LCD TCL Series S6. The HDR Looks AMAZING in MKW 😍, gonna try FAST Fusion later.
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Got any comparable graphs and waveforms, my dude?
 
LordOcidax said:
Lol, a HDR review and the guy doesn't even encoded the video properly, he wants those early clicks ASAP. Try by yourself:



My review: the screen looks really good, not as good as the OLED for obvious reasons, but way better than the LCD on the Switch 1 by a really big margin, The pixel density way better than i Expected, very colorful, 120 fps + Nvidia Gsync, can't ask for more for a LCD Panel 8/10. In docked mode, tested on my LG Oled B2 and on my LCD TCL Series S6. The HDR Looks AMAZING in MKW 😍, gonna try FAST Fusion later.
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Encode what video? His giving you the data.

And being better then switch 1 LCD isn't exactly something to jump up and down about cosnidering how cheap and old that tech was.
 
Trust Nintendo to fuck this up. I'm still excited for mine to be delievered today regardless.

There will be an army of Nintentards defending this no doubt not fully understanding what HDR is. The same ones that kept their OLED's on vivid mode.
 
LordOcidax said:
Lol, a HDR review and the guy doesn't even encoded the video properly, he wants those early clicks ASAP. Try by yourself:



My review: the screen looks really good, not as good as the OLED for obvious reasons, but way better than the LCD on the Switch 1 by a really big margin, The pixel density way better than i Expected, very colorful, 120 fps + Nvidia Gsync, can't ask for more for a LCD Panel 8/10. In docked mode, tested on my LG Oled B2 and on my LCD TCL Series S6. The HDR Looks AMAZING in MKW 😍, gonna try FAST Fusion later.
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"Trust me bro" vs actual measurements.....
watch me GIF
 
No OLED, bad HDR (not even mini-led I guess) and no hall effect joysticks. It's basically the Switch with improved power, and they release this along with the growing popularity of other PC handhelds, which even have a console like experience thanks to SteamOS. I guess you must really want those Nintendo exclusives in order to buy this.
 
Gamezone said:
No OLED, bad HDR (not even mini-led I guess) and no hall effect joysticks. It's basically the Switch with improved power, and they release this along with the growing popularity of other PC handhelds, which even have a console like experience thanks to SteamOS. I guess you must really want those Nintendo exclusives in order to buy this.
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You forgot no docked VRR and analogue triggers so we can't play racing games.
 
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