That worked out so well for the Vita. I loved that little thing, but let's not pretend like Nintendo didn't just carry off the most successful system launch since the $99 Gameboy Advance. And honestly, the gripes about the screen the Switch 2 launched with are laughable.
The way I see people drag on the screen confuses me. Mine is bright, clear and responsive.
What has this anything to do with what I said? If there's OLED, give me OLED. Nobody mentioned anything about how successful NS2 launch is ffs. Let's see when the OLED drop if you'll be the first to go get one or no
If that's all that matters to you then good for you. Sorry we're in 2026 and we love new tech after experiencing them
If a Switch 2 gets a pro-style update to go along with an OLED screen, I'd find it hard to resist. But if everything's the exact same with just a new OLED panel, I could definitely hold off. The only thing an OLED would have over this one is blacker blacks.
What else matters? Are we pretending that OLED is all positives and no drawbacks?
It might be bullshit but I thought I read speculation of an 120hz OLED with VRR support at that size wasn't currently available.
Switch 2 screen is terrible for any action base game especially for anything where ghosting is a detriment so shooters, platformers, a lot of retro games and so on.
Better than LCD yes. Don't nitpick it's embarrassing if you're trying to justify LCD over OLED lmao
Nintendo made the right call here. The goal at launch is market saturation, not selling the most premium model. An OLED screen would have increased the price, and the reality is most consumers either don't notice or don't care enough about OLED to pay extra for it. Getting millions of consoles into homes is the smarter long-term strategy. Besides, those that do care about OLED will double dip and Nintendo knows this.
The question is is a node shrink even possible?
Oh yeah? I have to say I never for one second thought there was going to be a Switch Pro lol despite the whole internet saying that.
There was a report Nintendo initially considered 5nm but went with 8nm because it was cheaper...I'm assuming it wouldn't be that difficult to get to 5nm? It would be pretty poor planning by Nintendo if they were stuck on 8nm because then they couldn't really do mid-cycle refreshes with a Switch 2 Lite or even Pro models.
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Didn't it turn out that Nintendo went with 8nm for Switch 2 in the end, as opposed to the heavily rumored 5nm?
Not really. OLED has its positives, but it also has its drawbacks compared to LCD. Like lower sustained peak brightness due to ABL and thermal throttling and potential text clarity problems depending on the panel's sub-pixel layout. So depending on the application and how the panel is made OLED may not actually be the best choice.
Huh, no. There was never a "Pro" SoC, the closest thing to that was Mariko and it was merely for battery life.
I mean in terms of willingness to buy underpowered hardware for top dollar the steam hardware side does have a lot in common with Nintendo fans >_<
Huh, I never read that TSMC was ending support at that time.
Incredibly portable, too!
Only needs some clickbait headlines and then we can start to advertise this brilliant concept to the masses:
Maybe the Switch 3 is foldable into a 15inch OLED or something.
Switch OLED released in 2021 and FY2020/2021 was the Switch's peak year sales-wise - selling 29M units.
Nintendo will sell us an OLED model for exactly 2 reasons:
Actually, Switch sold less units in the year the OLED released than the previous year (29m from April 2020-March 2021against 23m. from April 2021 to March 2022)
