Battery life discussion. EDIT: Nintendo updated battery fix info - www.nintendo.com/au/support/articles/the-battery-charge-indicator-or-percentage-displays-incorrectly-on-nintendo-switch-2/
@4:20 you can resell games for now. Xbox previously tried to prevent reselling of games. I'm fairy certain this is how they'll do it in the future. Just make the license on the card forever tied to a single account.
Hi MVG hope you are doing well. I was wondering if there will be a fix for River City Girls Zero? Was there any communication with Nintendo about this?
As far as I'm concerned, if you can't insert a game into a system which doesn't have the game on it and start playing the game, without internet. It's not a physical release.
@@Nickbaldeagle02Yes, games are played from a hard drive now. That doesn't change the fact that "physical" copies of games are just a box with a qr code for the manual these days.
@@brendanroberts1310 like if most pc users weren´t already used to this, and nobody cries within the platform about the lacking of physical releases. edit: but yeah, as a switch one user, don´t having cartridges anymore it is kinda of a bummer, i kinda like them, less when youy have to change the cartridge if you want to play another game, i guess companies doesn´t want to split money with store retainers, neither spend money within the cartridges themselves
My main issue with the Switch 2 is that first party games never go on sale on Nintendo platforms. $699 CAD for the console and $99.99+ for first party games will add up very quick.
And that internal 256GB storage space is ridiculous. This is the same Nintendo that Capcom had to argue with to have 4GB RAM instead of 2GB on the Switch 1.
Oleds as a technology still have serious longevity issues, which is a problem for a product without a replaceable screen. Not to mention the text readability issues, and most importantly the very poor viability in rooms with light pollution. Overall, you would likely be losing on the option to display at 120hz, aswell as increase the retail price more than it already is.
This is the best Switch 2 review I've seen. No fanboy nonsense, legit praise for quality improvements, legit criticism for poor implementations of features or greedy business practices, and just a comprehensive coverage of everything we'd want to know. Thank you!
your "criticisms" are pointless if you're paying for thing you're criticizing. you've showed company making that thing that you don't really have any serious issues with the product.
@UnKnownv5 That makes zero sense. Then again, the dumbest logic imaginable is found on the internet. BTW, I don't have a Switch 2, but you can criticize products you buy. By your logic, every game you've ever bought is a 10/10. Can't be anything less, otherwise you're criticizing the game! And everyone knows you can't criticize something you buy, right? 🙄
Much the same in Ireland. Pricing is very out of touch with cost of living crisis. Prices for everything are flying up here, people don't have that much spare for a console
@@Darkness_at_Noon56 I believe that's the feeling all of us got, no matter where you're from. Living costs are higher than ever so how come can we justify these prices? Entertainment is luxury nowadays it seems, we're messed
@@emericask8r130 They're talking about TotK and BotW. Which both technically offer more than a performance boost in their Switch 2 Edition, but most of what you're spending $10 on for their respective upgrade packs is the boosted resolution and framerate cap.
@@decegreaseNintendo doesn’t set third party game prices. RE Village and Hogwarts Legacy aren’t free upgrades on PlayStation or Xbox because they don’t set third party prices either. Nintendo bad because another company charged you for a game I guess.
The switch 2 is a hard pass for me, at least buying anything new/from nintendo. A 50% price hike is absurd, the price of games is ridiculous, and worst of all is the new terms of service where they explicitly say they can brick YOUR device if you do something they don't like, yeah, nah, gonna pass on this one.
to be fair every other company selling a game console or service like steam can do the very same thing and has been able to for awhile now. But fair enough with the price, you're the one in charge of your wallet after all
@@sean_mcKinda funny I can just join voice chat either with 1 friend or within a group on PS5 without PS Plus (though no multiplayer online), because it is basic feature but Nintendo is charging for it lol
Posting this here now before Discord gets the same idea and starts paywalling voice and other necessary things to follow Nintendo. "If they can get away with it, we can too!" Nitro will become more expensive and you'll have a posting limit along with no voice without Nitro. You think that's crazy, but a lot of things we used to think were never going to happen are happening. Never underestimate the power of greed.
The problem was never the $450 for the console, it was all the changes around it. Game Keys, big increases for game and accessory prices, $10 demos, $10 upgrades for many games, insanely expensive storage upgrades, and Nintendo's general anti-consumer attitude of late.
Nintendo hasn't been pro consumer outside of the Gamecube. Cheap system and also the classics for cheap. The Wii also got classics for games, but after that Nintendo stopped doing that. And for the Wii they also didn't want to bundle Wii Sports, Reggie had to fight for that. They were pretty greedy and for the 3DS they asked so much money at launch they dropped the price a few months later.
@@TroutButterwith all due respect, I’ve played TOTK, as I never beat it the first time around. It’s faster loading, but to say it’s a massive difference is ridiculous
It seems like Nintendo took all the complaints about their systems and the video games industry as a whole, and doubled down on everything bad. Hard pass
One horrible oversight they had is the "strong anti tamper protection". With an Webkit (and more... ) exploit one could set up a malicious captive wifi AP which triggers this protection and turns the console into instant e-waste. Nice, a kids toy which can be turned into a brick by connecting it to a random wifi ap (which kids will do) lol I think ninty will put this under the carpet so why not show off this feature at a ninty event? muhahaha
That fact that I can still play any game on my GBA by popping in the cartridge, but I will not be able to do so with the $450 Switch 2 is a deal breaker.
Same here, the idea of a game key is never going to be okay with me. This is step 1 to all-digital. Or maybe step 2, I don't know. I have all my older consoles and games and I can pop in literally any of them at any time and play them. And if I can't because the disc or console stopped working, I can get them easily on an emulator. But part of my love of Nintendo was the collection aspect, and if that goes away like everything else good, I'm gone. Plenty of old games to play to keep me entertained when I feel like gaming.
Game keys are ass but you can just not get those releases or just get the digital version instead. Personally, it's not the biggest issue for me. No true physical, no buy, and I play something else and that's the end of it.
I think you're probably the only dude I can trust right now who's capable of giving the most fair and objective review of this console without being too overly negative or emotionally-driven for the sake of, well, saying the same popular opinion because everyone else is.
yeah because there's no valid reason why anyone should be mad at nintendo or anything, it's just a fad, they haven't been threatening lawsuits against the emulator community or putting jailbreakers into lifelong debt or anything
@@data043 Only Yuzu was sued because they sold Totk-ready builds on Patreon when the game wasn't out officially but it was leaked and jailbreakers (Bowser guy to be specific) were arrested because they were selling piracy tools and not home brewing tools. Both would harm revenue and thus Nintendo had legal right to sue. Nintendo doesn't go after Cemu devs do they even though Cemu emulates Wii U games which are also on Switch. Ryujinx wasn't sued and instead it was bought by Nintendo and then shutdown.
This is the review I needed. Some of these comments make it seem like a life-or-death issue. It’s not. But it’s clear I don’t need to buy this right now
@@LucasCunhaRochacould say that for all these console manufacturers. atleast those past 2 decades nintendo was still putting out decent shit. not anymore
the current CEO is literally just a financial suit. previous CEOs all had careers in development or the larger history of the company, but this guy is literally a spreadsheet dude.
As true as this is, I've found people just don't want to hear it. They don't want to bring up inflation calculators to compare the prices of past consoles and games or anything. Logic has nothing to do with the objections people have on prices, and it's pointless to try to talk them down on it. The 'games are cheaper than they were 30 years ago' argument has never gotten much traction. I paid $90 for Super Mario RPG in the 90s on release. People just don't understand how good we've had it.
When you live in Brazil where they give nearly no second thought about their decisions here, and when you realise the console's price here is the most expensive in the world, the answer is absolutely no. We don't have localisation for games, prices are absurd across the board. Yet you find those that defend this situation. I never managed to get the original Switch, even to this day I only find it for way too much money, where I just want one I can jailbreak and use for anything other than actual Switch games for that reason, needless to say I'm not getting the new one. A great video as always, MVG.
@@Thefess Just the console itself starts at 750 USD, with games it can well go above 800. That is if you can find one at retail at all, I'm sure they'll ramp up the prices as they begin to acquire units.
@@Brinta3 I only know English because of this lack of localisation that did not arrive until the mid era of the PS3/360 days, PC fan translations aside. It's not about being bothered, but being accessible. The amount of people I know that dropped games because they couldn't understand the plot, games like the Zelda series. And the fact we are one of the biggest markets in the world, it's about respect. Indie devs care more than they do.
@@Brinta3 respect, the games are localized for spanish but not portuguese, and they sell games in brasil, not sure why you're defending nintendo lack of localization for your country too
the only reason i can be okay with all-digital on my pc is because the amount of game-per-dollar steam offers is kind of unbelievable. 1-2 year old games for half price or often way cheaper. these $80 switch 2 games will never drop in price and will only have rare, very limited sales. if i'm spending $80 on a game, i better be getting a nice box, an instruction manual, and the entire game loaded on the card ready to play without internet. something that used to be standard for full price games but is now so rare it has to be talked about and praised as an exception when it happens. nintendo has rapidly accelerated the decline of mainstream gaming with this release and i'm not giving in to it just for a pretty mario kart and a 2-generation old zelda game finally running at 60fps.
With the Switch, some devs were complaining that gamecards could get expensive. I think that's why they offer this in-between solution. It's a digital game, in essence, that you can trade like a physical game.
It’s 100 percent illegal, if they would’ve taken notes from why their 1st one was successful then the switch 2 could’ve been somewhat of a decent system
where were the complaints when sony and microsoft were doing the exact same thing, just without telling the consumer a single bit that this is what they're doing? don't get why nintendo being upfront about it is an issue, but sony and microsoft doing it quietly is just fine
Bro you're well within your rights to say you don't want one or don't like it for whatever reason. But don't lie and pretend it's not massively successful 😂
@@cosettapessa6417I saw lots of people at midnight launches all around the world. I've seen that you can't get one anywhere in my city. I've seen a very favourable response from the public. I've just watched Nintendo sell 160 million switches and release an improvement that people wanted. And people have gone mad for it. Sorry to give you the bad news. But hey, im just the doctor. I didn't make the needle sharp 😂
Original Switch launched at $299 and frequently had MK8 bundled. Nintendo is tripping balls if they want us to believe this thing is worth $450 standalone.
That was in 2016. $299 back then is worth the same as $396 today, so we're only talking about a 13% price increase in real dollars. And to be honest, $299 was a crazy good value back then; the Switch 1 offered better performance than the Wii U in a portable form factor for the same price. I don't wanna pay $449 any more than you do, but let's not act like this is some outrageous act of price gouging.
@@noahvangilder4836 $449 makes sense if it had OLED and was somewhat close to the performance of the PS5 or the Xbox Series X, as the PS5 is literally only $50 more. Lets be frank, the Switch 2 is using 10 year old technology, it is at best at PS4 or PS4 Pro level, its GPU is at best a GTX 1050 Ti or 1060 (which are basically 10 year old gpu). Look at the current prices of a PS4 and PS4 Pro, they are $200-$250. Heck even the Xbox Series S before the price increase was $300 and after the price increase is $380. The more egregious part is when you compare the specs of it to the Steam Deck, as the Steam Deck beats the Switch 2 in processing power, RAM capacity as well as having access to steam library without needing to pay extra. Usually processing power wouldn't be important, but when it comes to third party games, the Switch 2 will struggle due to a lack of processing power compared to the Steam Deck. With the OLED Steam Deck, it loses in hard drive capacity as well. This also not mentioning how the Steam Deck can emulate a Switch. So $450 for a Switch 2 is price gouging, a fairly price Switch 2 would be $350-375, not 50% more than the Switch 1 price. Unlike before with the Switch, the Switch 2 is not the only portable console on the market, it faces competition. What do you think will happen if the Steam Deck 2 is released in 2026 or 2027 that is better than the Switch 2 in performance and costs either the same amount or $50 more, at that point there would absolutely be no reason to buy a Switch 2 considering the that emulation exists. Nintendo is playing with fire and this will blow up on their face in terms of sales.
@@noahvangilder4836 The launch is only 1/2 the story though, b/c while it launched at $299, it's kinda irrelevant as 2 months ago it was still $299. You're taking the lower of 2 adjusted numbers and saying it's only 13%. But it can also be viewed as a 50% increase, as it's 50% more than the console it's replacing today. And also, this is essentially digital only since you can't buy physical games, and in that ilk, the PS5 digital is only $400, the Series S is $430. So it's more expensive than both of those while being more expensive. IDK, I agree with the OP that they're price gouging here.
@@noahvangilder4836 It sits at 655 USD in Norway, I would easily pay 450. Does not fix the glorified DRM keys (game carts) though, which is another dealbreaker.
On the game key card thing: discs that only effectively contain a license to play a game and require a download are a rampant problem on PS5/XBS systems, at least Nintendo is being transparent about it by clearly and outwardly marking the boxes of games that do this. On PS5/XBS it's usually some vague "Internet connection required" fine print on the back of the box. To be clear, I hate it regardless and think physical media should be exactly that: a *physical* storage medium for a game. But if you're gonna ship a license key on a cart/disc, this is the way to do it.
I'm an adult with a full-time job, a family and a house. Right now the economy is so bad. I have a million things to pay for before I waste $80 on a video game. I'll be passing for a few years. Maybe when the kids are older we'll get one.
Exactly. "This system is not for you breeders" . I'm so glad my kids are grown , there ain't no way they would be getting a S2 for Christmas . Kids want their own device they don't want to share these things . They've created a totally weird negative anti kids vibe. Nintendo has abandoned the family unit on this one. They chose to keep making a system because of the Covid bounce in profits. Adults who are buying huge libraries based off of nostalgia feelings while forced to stay home. That's not gonna keep selling , the burnout is already noticeable in comments I read. I'm one of those people and this new device and it's no game in box direction is a total no go. I am gonna collect some physicals for my Oled and sit back for 3 years watching this drama play out. Just sad .
Yep. Same. Theres not even enough S2 exclusives to make it a must have yet, and from what I've seen Mario Kart 8 still has far superior track layout and aesthetics vs their one new game.
The value isn't there at the moment. I built a gaming PC for around 500$ and with that I can play games, record videos, edit videos, record music, browse the web and even run emulators. For more money I could only have Mario kart to play which is a joke.
They changed the EULA so no class action allowed this time. Forced arbitration so there will be no remedy this time you'll just have to buy another $100 Joycon.
Just to let you know the Japan only Switch 2 is not region locked! Its language locked for first party titles with a Japanese option. I posted a rush job video to demonstrate.
@@monsterhunter445if I’m correct, they do sell Japan only and global versions of the switch in Japan. The whole purpose of the Japan only is that the Japanese government is subsidising costs, so is cheaper
Did they not say you need a Japanese account? I would have gotten the Japanese-only version since I'll use it in Japanese anyway but my account with all my digital games is European.
At least on switch 1 the language of some games, like Zelda on your video, is tied to the system language setting. I guess the biggest point would be access to the eshop and account, even if you started from scratch you could be locked out by payment methods.
Something weird about the Switch 2 is how the pricing outside of the US and Japan tend to go into the 600-700$ range. A lot of people really are getting priced out from next-gen.
@@guidope288 it’s next gen for handheld power. X86 alternatives are clunky with abysmal power efficiency. Shoving computer parts into a box isn’t nearly as hard as balancing out the performance profile of a device that needs to satisfy both handheld and TV needs.
Being able to force docked mode on handheld for Switch 1 games is a great shout. You have a 1080p display on Switch 2 and there could be a big benefit there given the Switch 2 should be powerful enough handheld to run switch 1 games on docked mode.
1080p is subpar for 2020, and really subpar for 2025. That processor has way more under the hood. I would put money on a “Switch 2 Pro” coming out next year (or before Christmas) with 2k, 3k, or 4k screen; Possibly the same size. You can get a 5 inch screen with 2k by Sharp thats 10 years old. It was possible.
@@keith_5584 You're full of it. The Switch has been on the market for 8 years, and never got a "Pro" upgrade to its internals, even when they came out with an OLED model. As for 1080p being subpar in 2025, it's all relative to screen size. Certainly, 1080p is no good for a large television or computer monitor. But it's more than adequate for a handheld. Just because you can go higher resolution doesn't mean you should, since there's always the trade-off of increased power consumption and having to lower settings to meet a higher pixel count. I'd argue that Nintendo should have stuck with the OLED's 720p screen for Switch 2, if not simply to prevent Switch 1 games from having uneven scaling to 1080p.
@@keith_5584 Handheld mode is clocked way down on the Switch 2 but it should still have enough oomph to beat Switch 1 docked. I don't think Nintendo will do a 4K handheld of the Switch 2, for the most part the Switch 2 is a 1080p system with some 4K support. It's a handheld. What I think we may get is an OLED Switch 2 with an SoC that's not on a crapy Samsung node. Maybe we can get more than 2hrs of battery then.
Sounds like enshittification. I still find it ridiculous having to pay for online service at all, especially if they aren't even going to give a long term guarantee that the servers are going to remain up for a long time. Paying for voice chat is ridiculous. I can kind of understand having to pay a bit for the switch 2 upgrades, because they require some effort from the developers, but that effort is not worth 10$ for most of these games. The console itself is too expensive, at home it competes with PCs that can do way more. Everyone already has and needs one, so just investing that money in a higher budget will yield a much better overall experience. Laptops and Steam Decks are portable as well and can be docked and the games will be way cheaper. It's also competing with cheaper and more powerful PS5s. And 80$ games are ridiculous - for a casual racing game especially and considering you could just play or emulate an older version and have basically the same experience. And the key cards are anti-consumer BS... I'm not impressed by the Switch 2. This entire console generation sucks. At least the Switch 2 will get some exclusives, but the draw of exclusives has also lessened over the years.
3:20 minor correction on speeds - these should be 900 megabytes and 600 megabytes per second for reads and writes respectively (rather than megabits, which would be a lot slower!)
Ugh, sometimes I want to go back to the 80s and 90s and slap the people who pushed that megabit nonsense to make their tiny roms and slow data transfer speeds look bigger, especially when it continues to cause confusion decades later.
Agreed. Anytime I'm talking about bandwidth speeds, I always feel I have to post both versions so that people don't get confused, either because they don't know better or only use one version.
no must have games, it is like the old switch but admits old one was weak af, so they pushed a bit stronger gpu this is not what a console should be, no.
@@arch1107 Mario Kart World is a must have game let's not lie here. It's a follow-up to a top 10 best selling game of all time. That is by every definition a must have game.
@@DigiTensei For anybody who isn't playing with friends, it's really NOT a must-have game at all. I haven't cared about Mario Kart basically since the N64. Hell, even if I had friends who liked Mario Kart, I probably still wouldn't care that much about it. They're pretty shallow games at the end of the day compared to what so many other games offer in comparison. A large empty open world doesn't change this, either.
@@neilranson4185 it had to be good, fine means it is more of the same, we already had that, and they know it, that is why the double down on the same it is fine, and that is the problem, it means stagnation, no progress, no innovation, your new games are the old ones, no new games you must buy, use the old ones that dont run like dog sheet it is fine, and it is not.
What truly defines a next-generation console are its exclusive games. So far, the Switch 2 seems to rely heavily on remasters and has only a few new launch titles. Historically, most Nintendo consoles debuted with strong, memorable games right out of the gate. While the Switch 2 introduces impressive features compared to the original, its launch lineup feels underwhelming in comparison.
I'm only interested in the Nintendo exclusive games anyway (especially from the Mario universe). For the rest I have a Pc. So if Nintendo delivers something in the foreseeable future, I'll think about buying it. I do have some Switch 1 games that are getting a Switch 2 update, but that's not enough for me.
The switch had breath of the wild on launch. The wii u had nintendo land. And the 3ds had fuckin face raiders. The switch 2 does not lack compared to these consoles
Switch 1 also relied heavily on ports from Wii U. Nothing new here. Same was on Wii that got many ports from GameCube. And 3DS? Its first successful game was Ocarina from N64. But because of high price now everybody suddenly opened their eyes. Better late than never, I guess.
@@Sly2Coopernah they just wernt around to know other console launches. Its just playstation and xbox kids whose first consoles were ps5 and xbox series dogging on Nintendo for the millionth time
With the download speeds, I think its worth mentioning that the Nintendo servers everything is downloaded from might be throttled when demand is very high to maintain server stability. I can see how the servers would be under stress with literally millions of Switch 2 consoles being setup and starting to download a whole lot of games within just a few days. I saw this happen on Xbox when Activision accidentally made an update for MW redownload almost the whole game. The download speeds on my Xbox were much slower than usual for a day after that oversized update. It's crazy how one botched COD update could bog down servers and significantly reduce download speeds for everything.
True, i played it on GOG on PC, and had a blast. If I get a switch 2, why would i get Cyberpunk if it's just a major downgrade for me, to 144fps to 30fps with drops, might be just me, but that just doesn't seem worth it.
This is true. Although I have purchased the switch 2 I will not purchase cyberpunk 2077 because I already have it on ps5 and I’m not compelled enough by just being able to play it mobile to pay again for it at $69.99
I'm a big Mario Kart fan and I think the bundle is totally worth the money. The S2 is a really good upgrade in most aspects and the same is true with MKW. My favorite MK was MK64 with GC being good also. MK Wii was horrible and MK8 (well, deluxe really) made it good again. MKW is in second place now, and might even overtake MK64. A great game so far.
The launch line-up blows hard, but the console checks all the necessary boxes for a new Nintendo console, imo. Didn't expect the mouse inputs to be this precise on my lap for example. The only minor issues I have with the Switch 2 are the sharp edges at the bottom of the L1/R1 buttons of the new joy cons. They feel super cheap, which they should not, considering their price tag. And the old Pro controller doesn't power on the console anymore when pressing the Home button. That'll probably be patched at some point, but I find it very strange that this doesn't work out of the box. There was a fw update available for the controller, but that didn't fix it.
I think that's how they want to differentiate the pro and the pro 2 controller. Works fine with the pro 2 controller, so I guess it's definitely a design choice by nintendo
Got my son the OLED switch for Christmas 2023, at some point I'll get a 2 but not any time soon. Nintendo has to deliver the software to back up the hardware
Back when I was a kid, Nintendo was all about gamers, humble, innovative - just great consoles and great games. Now, it’s a major anti-consumer corporate juggernaut. I don’t feel like a fan being served anymore, I feel like a human money bag being squeezed.
Same here. First console was an NES. Only thing we can do is not pay. Which ironically, is easier to do now more than ever because we're adults with money and more choice. They're really leveraging Nintendo nostalgia as hard as they. I changed to PC gaming 6 months ago and between Steam, PC gamepass, emulation and Switch 1, it's hard to really care about switch 2
Nintendo was also incredibly monopolistic with dubious business practices. Its approach to the market ensured NES and SNES games were v expensive. To be fair they were and remain the best developers in the world.
Nintendo was ALWAYS a very shrewd company on the business side of things, you were just too young to know or care about it at the time. Even back to the NES/SNES days, the way they treated 3rd party developers and publishers was awful and they had no problem playing dirty to gain an advantage over competition.
Here’s what it comes down to: If you’re looking for an upgrade from your Switch and want to play new 1st party Nintendo games then it is worth it, if you’re a casual gamer who doesn’t play a lot then no it is not worth it.
@Al_Lergic it doesnt have anything to do with "looking like real world". if you have an oled switch and switch 2, put them side by side and look at them. switch 1 doesnt even support hdr, but it looks night and day better on the screen
@Al_Lergic You're missing the point entirely and hanging on semantics. I didnt mean "accuracy to real life". I meant accurately displaying the HDR signal the way that an HDR signal is meant to be displayed....
You said MegaBITS per second for the MicroSD Express spec, but actually those speeds are in MegaBYTES per second due to them relying on PCI-Express lanes. It's a truly UNBELIEVABLE speed increase. The speeds you gave in MegaBITS per second can be reached by some UHS-I microSD cards and are very slow by modern storage standards :P
We already had all this on the ds,dsi and 3ds and people calling it revolutionary on the switch is just crazy 💀 additionally to that discord exists, why use gamechat
It sounded metallic, like a tin can, reminded me of some really cheap headphones with built in mic for a couple of dollars and to be fair some of them might be better than this. Maybe something was wrong with that guys switch. It did not sound good. You can almost hear some 7 year old kid screaming through that mic, it would be like an icepick in the ear.
@@user-10021 Because without gamechat, gamers complains about no native chat service on the console. When they release the native chat service, gamers complain because it features a native chat service when they can just use Discord. You could say, whatever they decide to do, people will complain lol.
Using the Welcome Tour echo demo, my JBL Bar 1000, and my wife 20ft away but facing the general direction of the TV.. The playback sounded almost exactly like her. If far away and not facing the device, heading up/down the stairs, or the vacuum on(to test noise cancellation) the playback sounds a little bit funny but still clear.
I'm glad I'm not the only one disappointed with the state of physical media on Switch 2. When I got my Switch 2, I grabbed Cyberpunk and Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma(Great games BTW) as they were the two coolest looking physical games(as in, with the game on the cart) available at launch As it turns out, they are the ONLY games available on the cart out of the launch catalog outside of first party games. I refuse to buy any key cards. If a a dev only releases as key cards, I'll just wait for a Steam Sale and play it on Deck instead.
Yes, agreed. I'm not fussed about smaller file sizes, I'll happily spare the plastic on those but for chunky games no physical cart is a deal breaker unless very heavily discounted. Being better than a code-in-the box isn't sufficient.
At least Steam sales have the courtesy of giving you your "glorified rental" at a 50-75% discount if you've been busy with other stuff up until right then.
I think people are less bothered about the price and more about the fact that everything has been going up in cost since 2019. This isn’t just a gaming issue, it’s an economic problem.
One thing I noticed was turning off auto brightness definitely makes a difference. Just moving the slider when it’s on, doesn’t have much of a change when moving it up or down.
Yeah, the screen comparison in this video makes no sense. The Switch 2 screen is extremely bright if you disable auto brightness. Otherwise, you will need to put it under sunlight to see the full auto brightness.
In Chile its almost 620 USD, the mario kart bundle is almost 690 USD (nice, but not) and Mario Kart World is almost 100 usd so I'll be waiting for a Christmas deal
Already heard reports of joysticks failing again. Can't believe Nintendo was nice enough to bring switch 2 edition of joysticks with a $450 dollar upgrade.
No, you've heard that hall effect is not used and therefore concluded they will fail again. PS5 and XS also use the same technology and have only slightly lower failrate than NS.
The most level headed, down to earth review of the Switch 2 I’ve seen so far. You highlight so many valid criticisms, holding Nintendo accountable where it matters most. Thank you for this 🙏
The deal breaker for me is the use of key cards I can put up with a lot but I like having a choice between physical and digital key cards are a slap to the face to anyone with a physical collection making only 1 cart size and key carts to test the waters using third parties as a sacrificial genii pig to test the waters basically you first and if people except Nintendo to start using them for there own games I have no doubt that’s the thought process behind them.
Lmao it’s always gamers acting like physical media is sacred. Nobody’s mad their new album isn’t on CD. Nobody’s demanding Netflix mail them a Blu-ray. But a Switch game needs a download and suddenly it’s the downfall of society. It’s not about ownership anymore, it’s about having something to put on a shelf (to collect dust) and pretend it matters.
@@shootermcgavin1208 I like my albums on CD thank you very much, and movies on DVD & bluray. I also like vinyl records. Not all of us are prepared to pay for something and have nothing to show for it. Of course the high seas have always been a place to enjoy freedom...
@@HeavySighSA And you can also speak for yourself. _You_ didn't care when Sony and Microsoft were doing this with disks. A whole lot of other people were angry when they found they couldn't play their favourite games anymore because of it. The "physical vs digital" conversation was a heated one for years.
@@shootermcgavin1208 They can brick YOUR system. That IS the issue. YOUR system is not YOURS It's NINTENDOs. Do some people not understand this? You would think you'd understand being on a channel that talks a lot about MODDING and homebrew. It's like if you owned a car and modified it with aftermarket parts then the car OEM comes to your garage and smashes the engine that you can no longer drive the car. People need to draw a god damn line , otherwise you just keep accepting MORE and MORE corporate overreach. Is it NOT enough that the games industry is quick to jump on $80 and $90 game prices? is it NOT enough we're finding more and more game discs only come with 10MB of data, the rest you have to download is it NOT enough Sony requires and tried push to have accounts to play their games? Is it NOT enough that corporate publishers are pushing subscriptions over game buying? Is it NOT enough they planned to run adds before, during and after gaming session? is it NOT enough that they tried to shove NFTS, and gambling mechanics in games? is It NOT enough they discontinue games in stores and threaten game preservation? Ubisoft "Gamers have to get use to now owning their games" When we have perfectly fine models like DRM-FREE digital offered by GOG Where is the line going to be drawn???
The Switch 2 is not selling at all, unlike he said, in the European and US markets, the 2 major ones, is been a disaster in terms of sales in the first days. Switch 2 is expansive for handheld and the games to, stop saying it is not. In Europe console cost around 600€ avarage, if you buy all acessories you need, its more then 800€ lol. Costs more then a PS5 pro wtf.
We should also remember that a heck of a lot of people would have been downloading titles (as well as re-downloading old software) this past weekend at roughly the same time.
I think it is really cheap for todays market. A damn paprika in the supermarket costs 8 bucks, and a pack of coffee is 10 dollars. A montly subscription for a streaming service is 60 bucks a month... The Switch 2 could have cost 600-800 bucks, and people would still have bought it.
Strange, the HDR, looks great on my LG Oled. Definitely on par with any other console. No washed out look at all. It's definitely a calibration issue on your end. And I don't understand why your Switch display is so dark, as mine is blinding at max settings 😅
@@kyperactivethere is no HDR on the switch OLED. he compared a SDR game vs a SDR game on the switch 2. games that use HDR get much brighteron on the Switch 2 than on the Switch OLED.
Let me get this straight. Nintendo released Zelda games for the Switch, some of which came out on the Wii U, that could not run at full speed and wants those who purchased those games to also pay for a patch that addresses the issue so those games can be played at 60fps on the Switch 2?! Got it. A jailbreak cannot come for this system soon enough. Their greed knows no bounds. I know the system has been hacked as far as a userland exploit, but this does not grant the ability to run unsigned code or backups...yet!
I have enjoyed Mario kart with my wife, we played through the Grand Prix a few times and unlocked most the stuff, and now it will replace the switch 1 nicely as a paper weight till the next big 1st party Nintendo game comes out with the occasional Mario kart race in between.
@@williammoore1030it’s definitely the preferred way to play it. I only put about 25 hours into the Switch 1 version and stopped after I realized they would absolutely be making a Switch 2 version. I wouldn’t call the original release’s performance unplayable, but it is not far off. The consistent performance of the Switch 2 really opens the game up.
HDR isn't just peak brightness, it's specifically the ability to display a wide range of luminance across a frame. without some kind of local dimming technology HDR cannot bet displayed propertly, and the Switch 2 display does not support any local dimming. What the switch 2 to does support is HDR10, which is something like a signal format that contains the extra luminance data which is required for HDR. Interestingly, the Switch OLED did not support HDR either, as the OG switch hardware does not seem to support HDR10 output, so the benefit of the Switch OLED display was actually only that it was much more colour acurate. you would need both the hardware and the display to support HDR to actually get a HDR output to display, meaning that a hypothetical Switch 2 OLED would be nintendo's first true HDR console. (Although the Switch 2 does output HDR10 over HDMI as far as I'm aware, so if you hooked it up to an actually HDR capable display, the image would actually be HDR)
it also depends on how the HDR was implemented on any specific game, so far BOTW and TOTK look subpart because the blacks are raised on both HDR and SDR.
It's fine. I have a big Switch library, and will upgrade sometimes this year. I think I will be far more cautious with buying games this time around, but I think that is more a sign of the economic landscape.
Thank you for your review man, completely honest and direct, i just got my hands on the switch 2 and i bought mk world, hyrule warriors definitive edition and bayonetta 3, the screen looks so cool and the graphics are pretty clean + the game cube emulator is a nice extra!
@@leventelajos5078 the retailers blamed the distributor was to blame, which has exclusive price rights, so they took a larger cut. since the price was same at all retailers. who knows what's the truth tho.
@@hanes2in Hungary we have one of the highesz vat in the world (I think second behind belgium) with 27% And the price for the bundle is around 550-560 eur
The real issue is not the console price imo. It's that you most likely want additional hardware (camera, pro controller, SD card, etc) or simply need to pay extra for features like game chat, GameCube NSO or simply the normal enhancements of Switch 1 (in some cases). So it's kind of a money sucking trap if you are not cautious
@MVG PSA IMPORTANT NOTE For TV mode, set HDR to "Compatible games only", otherwise it will force a fake HDR on games that dont support it (for example SF6 doesn't support HDR and looks washed out when this is on ) Also turn off the 120ghz as it will only be applicable to games that support it AND ONLY if you choose 1080p resolution. The. Choose RGB to either limited or full, depending on if you on TV or monitor.
Nintendo is the Apple computers of the video game industry. - Always releasing hardware that is slightly behind the competition, but still charge a premium for the walled garden. - Will constantly be the first ones to do something anti-consumer, and have the rest of the industry follow suit. - Very litigious.
People tend to forget that the cost of making games has skyrocketed in the last couple decades. Everyone had the same complaint when the standard cost of a AAA title went from $40 to $60. But the fact is, software engineers, systems engineers, artists, musicians, writers, sound engineers, voice actors, logistics experts, management, and all the other staff to support them (e.g. receptionists, building security, IT support, caterers, transportation and travel, etc.), as well as localization staff, QA, distributors, digital infrastructure, licensing (including software libraries for things like physics engines, etc.), all cost tons of money. The number of people involved in making these games, the salaries and benefits for those people, associated taxes, etc., cost more now than they did before - both in terms of raw dollars, and inflation-adjusted comparisons with older works. Many AAA titles have budgets many times the size of blockbuster movies. At some point, the cost to the consumer has to go up to fairly compensate those people. It's also a big part of why indie game development is more popular than ever these days - they DON'T require that much money to make. Don't get me wrong. I'm not blindly defending Nintendo. But it's not like we're not also seeing game prices going up on the competing platforms.
Unfortunately, it's hitting indie studios hard as well. Playtonic Games had laid off about 20 employees as of last week due to those factors you described.
@@quadraforest Agreed. New games look amazing but they're nowhere near as much fun as those from the 90s and early 2000s. My favourite game (that I still play regularly in 2025) is Quake 1 (with the Arcane Dimensions mod) - Awesome fun, completely moddable with a HUGE modding and mapping community built around it which is still active and growing, offline install and play, no internet shenanigans, no DRM crap no activation BS and these days, totally free of charge, and still one of the most fun PC games ever released
Would be a valid excuse, if only these CEOs haven't actually been becoming more and more rich and these companies haven't been constantly boasting about increasing profit. Wages have stagnated, but things are getting more expensive. Someone must be getting all the money from it, and it's certainly not the employees.
2:25 Washed out look? ...You're trying out the docked HDR on an XB321HK IPS monitor. It won't work. You need a Mini-LED monitor with plenty of background zones or an OLED to get HDR to look the way it's supposed to. It will definitely look washed out on an edge-lit IPS monitor without background zones. The HDR looks absolutely amazing on my 65" OLED. I calibrate monitors btw, so I know what I'm talking about. If you don't believe me, watch Monitors Unboxed's "True HDR vs Fake HDR?" video. Your monitor can only do max 350 nits brightness, and it can't control that brightness properly without background zones. Ideally, you should have a panel that can do over 600 nits, but around 1000 nits is preferred. 350 nits is so far from that, and without background zones, it'll just do max brightness most of the time, rather than controlling it, which makes it look washed out. You need to get an OLED or Mini-LED monitor that can do around 1000 nits to test HDR properly. Right now, your monitor "supports" it, but can't show it off properly.
This is exactly what I needed to hear. Getting to your conclusion, as soon as you said, paraphrasing, 'if you don't care for MKW, then the Switch2 isn't worth it', I have internally made the decision to completely pass on it and just get an OLED as my "upgrade". I have an original gen1 switch that I plan on modding (after doing a bit of research on the potential of it bricking), and though my Switch library isn't huge, it's most definitely not small. Nintendo has always had pretty decent software emulation in their consoles with backwards compatibility, but I just don't trust them enough anymore. At the end of the day, this is what happens to a company that focuses [mostly] on one specific thing (video games, in Nintendo's case) and is being run by a bunch of MBAs a business suits instead of, you know, *_actual developers who have a love and passion for what they do._* I honestly don't see Nintendo having a good future with Furukawa (or w/e his name is) as the head of NoJ. I also see the Nintendo Switch 2 performing about as well as the XBOne when it comes to telling their customer base "if you don't like it, don't buy it". Never a smart idea. And this is why I absolutely loathe MBAs and business suits who don't understand anything about their customer base as anything other than wallets to siphon money out of. I'll wait and see if I am actually right about this (which my gut reactions and forward thinking typically are), or if I'm just underestimating the power of the nintendo *_simp._*
Battery life discussion. EDIT: Nintendo updated battery fix info - www.nintendo.com/au/support/articles/the-battery-charge-indicator-or-percentage-displays-incorrectly-on-nintendo-switch-2/
2 hours battery life??
@@danyboy1477 depends on the game. Mario Kart im getting 3+. Like i said, wait for a follow up :)
@4:20 you can resell games for now. Xbox previously tried to prevent reselling of games. I'm fairy certain this is how they'll do it in the future. Just make the license on the card forever tied to a single account.
The software was pretty rushed. I bet it improves in a month.
Hi MVG hope you are doing well. I was wondering if there will be a fix for River City Girls Zero? Was there any communication with Nintendo about this?
As far as I'm concerned, if you can't insert a game into a system which doesn't have the game on it and start playing the game, without internet. It's not a physical release.
Get with the times grandad.
@@Nickbaldeagle02if the times suck I would rather not.
@@Nickbaldeagle02Yes, games are played from a hard drive now. That doesn't change the fact that "physical" copies of games are just a box with a qr code for the manual these days.
@@brendanroberts1310 like if most pc users weren´t already used to this, and nobody cries within the platform about the lacking of physical releases. edit: but yeah, as a switch one user, don´t having cartridges anymore it is kinda of a bummer, i kinda like them, less when youy have to change the cartridge if you want to play another game, i guess companies doesn´t want to split money with store retainers, neither spend money within the cartridges themselves
there are physical games on switch 2.
My main issue with the Switch 2 is that first party games never go on sale on Nintendo platforms. $699 CAD for the console and $99.99+ for first party games will add up very quick.
Nintendo consoles are cheap to buy but very expensive to sustain.
Steam Deck and plus indie games on sale is such a better buy.
@@Sly2Cooper I wouldn't call a 450 dollar MSRP cheap. That's... the same price as a PS5.
@@Sly2CooperThat only apply with the Switch. The older generation Nintendo console are very cheap and the games are superior for its time
Plus the sd card, pro controller. At minimum.
switch 1: ported wii U games
swtich 2: upgraded ports of ported wii U games
Nailed it
$70 for BOTW on Switch 2 WITHOUT DLC is seriously insane. Indefensible greed.
@@aquamidideluxe5079the switch 2 console IS the upgrade (money in the hundreds), gatekeeping that experience is crafty
You will own nothing and be happy. It has already started and everyone who supports this greedy company is to blame.
LMAO the neil druckmann strategy
Switch 2 should not have launched with LCD. Absolutely ridiculous, knowing people will buy the LCD just to buy the OLED again down the line.
And that internal 256GB storage space is ridiculous. This is the same Nintendo that Capcom had to argue with to have 4GB RAM instead of 2GB on the Switch 1.
Yeah, I'm probably going to wait for an OLED revision while I work on my gaming backlog.
Oleds as a technology still have serious longevity issues, which is a problem for a product without a replaceable screen. Not to mention the text readability issues, and most importantly the very poor viability in rooms with light pollution. Overall, you would likely be losing on the option to display at 120hz, aswell as increase the retail price more than it already is.
@@jamil027 Nintendo actually planned to use 4GB from the start and Capcom only more so supported that idea
What make you think an OLED will release?
This is the best Switch 2 review I've seen.
No fanboy nonsense, legit praise for quality improvements, legit criticism for poor implementations of features or greedy business practices, and just a comprehensive coverage of everything we'd want to know.
Thank you!
if you bought it you have no criticisms.
@@UnKnownv5 Then why did MVG have many criticisms? Like I said, no fanboy nonsense.
your "criticisms" are pointless if you're paying for thing you're criticizing. you've showed company making that thing that you don't really have any serious issues with the product.
@UnKnownv5 That makes zero sense. Then again, the dumbest logic imaginable is found on the internet.
BTW, I don't have a Switch 2, but you can criticize products you buy. By your logic, every game you've ever bought is a 10/10. Can't be anything less, otherwise you're criticizing the game!
And everyone knows you can't criticize something you buy, right? 🙄
@@corey2232 I just play everything on a PC, upoo front it's not cheap but you get the best quality.
In finland its 580 euros. With mario kart its 620 euros. Now add 90€ pro controller, 24€ online and another 80-90€ game.... 800+ euros is just crazy.
I do think Nintendo wants to leave Europe behind. Europeans need to start dealing with it
Much the same in Ireland. Pricing is very out of touch with cost of living crisis. Prices for everything are flying up here, people don't have that much spare for a console
If I ever order a Switch 2, it will be from somewhere else like Spain or Germany. Bergsala is greedy.
It offers so little value compared to the Steam Deck. Unless you absolutely have to play Nintendo exclusives, passing on the Switch 2 is a no-brainer.
@@Darkness_at_Noon56 I believe that's the feeling all of us got, no matter where you're from. Living costs are higher than ever so how come can we justify these prices? Entertainment is luxury nowadays it seems, we're messed
I still find it funny that you have to pay $10 to essentially raise the fps cap and resolution, and maybe tweak LOD bias. What a great value.
What do you mean? Are those features somehow locked behind that $10 tutorial game? full transparency I'm 30 seconds into this video 😂
@@emericask8r130 They're talking about TotK and BotW. Which both technically offer more than a performance boost in their Switch 2 Edition, but most of what you're spending $10 on for their respective upgrade packs is the boosted resolution and framerate cap.
There were 12 games with free upgrades for that at launch. Some games are free upgrades and some are paid just like PS and Xbox.
@Nifterific what are paid upgrades for non nintendo games?
@@decegreaseNintendo doesn’t set third party game prices. RE Village and Hogwarts Legacy aren’t free upgrades on PlayStation or Xbox because they don’t set third party prices either. Nintendo bad because another company charged you for a game I guess.
The switch 2 is a hard pass for me, at least buying anything new/from nintendo.
A 50% price hike is absurd, the price of games is ridiculous, and worst of all is the new terms of service where they explicitly say they can brick YOUR device if you do something they don't like, yeah, nah, gonna pass on this one.
to be fair every other company selling a game console or service like steam can do the very same thing and has been able to for awhile now. But fair enough with the price, you're the one in charge of your wallet after all
@@TheEvilRayquaza Steam cannot brick your system wtf you talking about
@@arpanmahapatra342 That dude is sniffing glue or something. He doesn't know what he's talking about, lol.
@@arpanmahapatra342 it sure can remove your library/account for any reason
The fact they are charging to have voice chat and they have a dedicated button for it is criminal
WHAT?! I didn't know that lmao. Nintendo is insane.
And that the other consoles stopped charging for the same feature years ago. Nintendo literally stands alone with this subscription feature now.
@@sean_mcKinda funny I can just join voice chat either with 1 friend or within a group on PS5 without PS Plus (though no multiplayer online), because it is basic feature but Nintendo is charging for it lol
Funny thing is that it is the C button.
Posting this here now before Discord gets the same idea and starts paywalling voice and other necessary things to follow Nintendo.
"If they can get away with it, we can too!"
Nitro will become more expensive and you'll have a posting limit along with no voice without Nitro. You think that's crazy, but a lot of things we used to think were never going to happen are happening. Never underestimate the power of greed.
The problem was never the $450 for the console, it was all the changes around it. Game Keys, big increases for game and accessory prices, $10 demos, $10 upgrades for many games, insanely expensive storage upgrades, and Nintendo's general anti-consumer attitude of late.
They learned from Sony I guess
Exactly! I would have been fine with the price of the console hardware, it's everything else that turned me away this time around.
@@sunderwire Well, they learned from the players who support the upgrades lol
Nintendo hasn't been pro consumer outside of the Gamecube. Cheap system and also the classics for cheap. The Wii also got classics for games, but after that Nintendo stopped doing that. And for the Wii they also didn't want to bundle Wii Sports, Reggie had to fight for that. They were pretty greedy and for the 3DS they asked so much money at launch they dropped the price a few months later.
The Vita successor we never got lmao
I'll pass, the lack of killer first party games and the price points are a turn off.
It’s not worth it if you already have OLED, I can’t even tell the difference in gameplay TBH
@@RadHobbies You must have not played BotW or TotK on Switch 2 then. There's a MASSIVE difference in how it looks and runs. It's not even close.
@@TroutButterwith all due respect, I’ve played TOTK, as I never beat it the first time around. It’s faster loading, but to say it’s a massive difference is ridiculous
A console that's almost $500 paired with $80 games is ridiculous.
@@RadHobbiesit’s literally double the frame rate. That’s a massive difference, if you disagree go see an ophthalmologist
It seems like Nintendo took all the complaints about their systems and the video games industry as a whole, and doubled down on everything bad.
Hard pass
I look forward to the inevitable "Mistakes were made" Switch 2 video
:)
Let's hope.
One horrible oversight they had is the "strong anti tamper protection".
With an Webkit (and more... ) exploit one could set up a malicious captive wifi AP which triggers this protection and turns the console into instant e-waste.
Nice, a kids toy which can be turned into a brick by connecting it to a random wifi ap (which kids will do) lol
I think ninty will put this under the carpet so why not show off this feature at a ninty event? muhahaha
consoooming is strong in this one.
Next week 😂
That fact that I can still play any game on my GBA by popping in the cartridge, but I will not be able to do so with the $450 Switch 2 is a deal breaker.
You can play any Switch game that's sitting in the memory. Just select and play.
Same here, the idea of a game key is never going to be okay with me. This is step 1 to all-digital. Or maybe step 2, I don't know.
I have all my older consoles and games and I can pop in literally any of them at any time and play them. And if I can't because the disc or console stopped working, I can get them easily on an emulator. But part of my love of Nintendo was the collection aspect, and if that goes away like everything else good, I'm gone. Plenty of old games to play to keep me entertained when I feel like gaming.
Game keys are ass but you can just not get those releases or just get the digital version instead.
Personally, it's not the biggest issue for me. No true physical, no buy, and I play something else and that's the end of it.
The only savior will be piracy.
You people are having hypocritical tantrums as if xbox and sony haven't been doing this for years and years.
I think you're probably the only dude I can trust right now who's capable of giving the most fair and objective review of this console without being too overly negative or emotionally-driven for the sake of, well, saying the same popular opinion because everyone else is.
yeah because there's no valid reason why anyone should be mad at nintendo or anything, it's just a fad, they haven't been threatening lawsuits against the emulator community or putting jailbreakers into lifelong debt or anything
@@data043 JUST CONSUME PRODCUT AND GET EXCITED FOR NEXT PRODUCT
wait until a dragon ball game release until them is a pretty paper holder
@@data043 That's their problems. Not the average joe
@@data043 Only Yuzu was sued because they sold Totk-ready builds on Patreon when the game wasn't out officially but it was leaked and jailbreakers (Bowser guy to be specific) were arrested because they were selling piracy tools and not home brewing tools. Both would harm revenue and thus Nintendo had legal right to sue. Nintendo doesn't go after Cemu devs do they even though Cemu emulates Wii U games which are also on Switch.
Ryujinx wasn't sued and instead it was bought by Nintendo and then shutdown.
This is the review I needed. Some of these comments make it seem like a life-or-death issue. It’s not. But it’s clear I don’t need to buy this right now
I feel like Nintendo has profited from my nostalgia long enough. They seem very slimy at the moment.
lol, they have been very slimy in the last 2 decades, crazy how people can be so blind to deny the truth.
@@LucasCunhaRochacould say that for all these console manufacturers. atleast those past 2 decades nintendo was still putting out decent shit. not anymore
You mean for the last 10 years?
Yeah, that "Moment".
the current CEO is literally just a financial suit. previous CEOs all had careers in development or the larger history of the company, but this guy is literally a spreadsheet dude.
Just like Disney
People are missing the issue. Yes, this is “expensive” but the bigger issue is how much buying power our dollar has lost.
Yeah we all knew this was gonna happen tho
As true as this is, I've found people just don't want to hear it. They don't want to bring up inflation calculators to compare the prices of past consoles and games or anything. Logic has nothing to do with the objections people have on prices, and it's pointless to try to talk them down on it. The 'games are cheaper than they were 30 years ago' argument has never gotten much traction. I paid $90 for Super Mario RPG in the 90s on release. People just don't understand how good we've had it.
@@wavestation999you’re not wrong homie
If people didn't realize this over the last 4 years, they never will.
So in turn we should be getting more than this from Nintendo........ But people like you are clearly missing this.....
When you live in Brazil where they give nearly no second thought about their decisions here, and when you realise the console's price here is the most expensive in the world, the answer is absolutely no.
We don't have localisation for games, prices are absurd across the board. Yet you find those that defend this situation. I never managed to get the original Switch, even to this day I only find it for way too much money, where I just want one I can jailbreak and use for anything other than actual Switch games for that reason, needless to say I'm not getting the new one.
A great video as always, MVG.
Whats the console price for you
@@Thefess Just the console itself starts at 750 USD, with games it can well go above 800. That is if you can find one at retail at all, I'm sure they'll ramp up the prices as they begin to acquire units.
Why do you need localisation? I'm from the Netherlands and all video games in my youth (NES, Game Boy, PC) were in English. It never bothered me.
@@Brinta3 I only know English because of this lack of localisation that did not arrive until the mid era of the PS3/360 days, PC fan translations aside. It's not about being bothered, but being accessible. The amount of people I know that dropped games because they couldn't understand the plot, games like the Zelda series. And the fact we are one of the biggest markets in the world, it's about respect. Indie devs care more than they do.
@@Brinta3 respect, the games are localized for spanish but not portuguese, and they sell games in brasil, not sure why you're defending nintendo lack of localization for your country too
the only reason i can be okay with all-digital on my pc is because the amount of game-per-dollar steam offers is kind of unbelievable. 1-2 year old games for half price or often way cheaper. these $80 switch 2 games will never drop in price and will only have rare, very limited sales.
if i'm spending $80 on a game, i better be getting a nice box, an instruction manual, and the entire game loaded on the card ready to play without internet. something that used to be standard for full price games but is now so rare it has to be talked about and praised as an exception when it happens.
nintendo has rapidly accelerated the decline of mainstream gaming with this release and i'm not giving in to it just for a pretty mario kart and a 2-generation old zelda game finally running at 60fps.
I think the game key-card thing should be illegal.
With the Switch, some devs were complaining that gamecards could get expensive.
I think that's why they offer this in-between solution. It's a digital game, in essence, that you can trade like a physical game.
It’s 100 percent illegal, if they would’ve taken notes from why their 1st one was successful then the switch 2 could’ve been somewhat of a decent system
where were the complaints when sony and microsoft were doing the exact same thing, just without telling the consumer a single bit that this is what they're doing? don't get why nintendo being upfront about it is an issue, but sony and microsoft doing it quietly is just fine
@@EeveeEuphoriaBeing transparent is a great way to catch hate
@@Kattmandew_93 Could've been? You're nuts if you think it's not a good system.
Finally, the WiiU Pro 2
Exactly
keep coping
Bro you're well within your rights to say you don't want one or don't like it for whatever reason. But don't lie and pretend it's not massively successful 😂
@@BarryRerack147 lol what do you know. N is famous for flopping half of the time.
@@cosettapessa6417I saw lots of people at midnight launches all around the world. I've seen that you can't get one anywhere in my city. I've seen a very favourable response from the public. I've just watched Nintendo sell 160 million switches and release an improvement that people wanted. And people have gone mad for it. Sorry to give you the bad news. But hey, im just the doctor. I didn't make the needle sharp 😂
Original Switch launched at $299 and frequently had MK8 bundled. Nintendo is tripping balls if they want us to believe this thing is worth $450 standalone.
That was in 2016. $299 back then is worth the same as $396 today, so we're only talking about a 13% price increase in real dollars. And to be honest, $299 was a crazy good value back then; the Switch 1 offered better performance than the Wii U in a portable form factor for the same price.
I don't wanna pay $449 any more than you do, but let's not act like this is some outrageous act of price gouging.
@@noahvangilder4836 $449 makes sense if it had OLED and was somewhat close to the performance of the PS5 or the Xbox Series X, as the PS5 is literally only $50 more. Lets be frank, the Switch 2 is using 10 year old technology, it is at best at PS4 or PS4 Pro level, its GPU is at best a GTX 1050 Ti or 1060 (which are basically 10 year old gpu). Look at the current prices of a PS4 and PS4 Pro, they are $200-$250. Heck even the Xbox Series S before the price increase was $300 and after the price increase is $380. The more egregious part is when you compare the specs of it to the Steam Deck, as the Steam Deck beats the Switch 2 in processing power, RAM capacity as well as having access to steam library without needing to pay extra. Usually processing power wouldn't be important, but when it comes to third party games, the Switch 2 will struggle due to a lack of processing power compared to the Steam Deck. With the OLED Steam Deck, it loses in hard drive capacity as well. This also not mentioning how the Steam Deck can emulate a Switch.
So $450 for a Switch 2 is price gouging, a fairly price Switch 2 would be $350-375, not 50% more than the Switch 1 price. Unlike before with the Switch, the Switch 2 is not the only portable console on the market, it faces competition. What do you think will happen if the Steam Deck 2 is released in 2026 or 2027 that is better than the Switch 2 in performance and costs either the same amount or $50 more, at that point there would absolutely be no reason to buy a Switch 2 considering the that emulation exists. Nintendo is playing with fire and this will blow up on their face in terms of sales.
@@noahvangilder4836 The launch is only 1/2 the story though, b/c while it launched at $299, it's kinda irrelevant as 2 months ago it was still $299. You're taking the lower of 2 adjusted numbers and saying it's only 13%. But it can also be viewed as a 50% increase, as it's 50% more than the console it's replacing today.
And also, this is essentially digital only since you can't buy physical games, and in that ilk, the PS5 digital is only $400, the Series S is $430. So it's more expensive than both of those while being more expensive.
IDK, I agree with the OP that they're price gouging here.
@@noahvangilder4836 It sits at 655 USD in Norway, I would easily pay 450.
Does not fix the glorified DRM keys (game carts) though, which is another dealbreaker.
Basic economics lesson, adjust for inflation and it’s roughly the same price as switch 2 you just didn’t realise
On the game key card thing: discs that only effectively contain a license to play a game and require a download are a rampant problem on PS5/XBS systems, at least Nintendo is being transparent about it by clearly and outwardly marking the boxes of games that do this. On PS5/XBS it's usually some vague "Internet connection required" fine print on the back of the box.
To be clear, I hate it regardless and think physical media should be exactly that: a *physical* storage medium for a game. But if you're gonna ship a license key on a cart/disc, this is the way to do it.
I'm an adult with a full-time job, a family and a house. Right now the economy is so bad. I have a million things to pay for before I waste $80 on a video game. I'll be passing for a few years. Maybe when the kids are older we'll get one.
Stop wasting ur time on RUclips and go get more money so ur kids aren’t embarrassed that their dad is a broke boy who can’t afford a Nintendo.
Exactly.
"This system is not for you breeders" . I'm so glad my kids are grown , there ain't no way they would be getting a S2 for Christmas . Kids want their own device they don't want to share these things . They've created a totally weird negative anti kids vibe.
Nintendo has abandoned the family unit on this one. They chose to keep making a system because of the Covid bounce in profits.
Adults who are buying huge libraries based off of nostalgia feelings while forced to stay home. That's not gonna keep selling , the burnout is already noticeable in comments I read.
I'm one of those people and this new device and it's no game in box direction is a total no go.
I am gonna collect some physicals for my Oled and sit back for 3 years watching this drama play out.
Just sad .
Tbf the switch and most Nintendo games are for for kids, so that makes sense
Yep. Same. Theres not even enough S2 exclusives to make it a must have yet, and from what I've seen Mario Kart 8 still has far superior track layout and aesthetics vs their one new game.
The value isn't there at the moment. I built a gaming PC for around 500$ and with that I can play games, record videos, edit videos, record music, browse the web and even run emulators. For more money I could only have Mario kart to play which is a joke.
It would be mental if stick drift happened again after what happened with switch 1
They changed the EULA so no class action allowed this time. Forced arbitration so there will be no remedy this time you'll just have to buy another $100 Joycon.
It will, it is by design. Selling and reselling multiple joycons is part of the nintendo tax. No winder they stayed away from hall efect
there are already some reports of stick drift on the switch 2, they using the same joysticks again in the new joycons.
It will have drift, and sooner than S1.
@@f0x4nn3 yeah the joysticks are still resistive sliders, so they will absolutely wear out at some point.
Just to let you know the Japan only Switch 2 is not region locked! Its language locked for first party titles with a Japanese option. I posted a rush job video to demonstrate.
That's so shitty, but Japanese companies have always discriminated against their foreign customers.
That still sucks though. First party are a big part of buying a Nintendo. I guess if you read Japanese it's fine
@@monsterhunter445if I’m correct, they do sell Japan only and global versions of the switch in Japan.
The whole purpose of the Japan only is that the Japanese government is subsidising costs, so is cheaper
Did they not say you need a Japanese account? I would have gotten the Japanese-only version since I'll use it in Japanese anyway but my account with all my digital games is European.
At least on switch 1 the language of some games, like Zelda on your video, is tied to the system language setting.
I guess the biggest point would be access to the eshop and account, even if you started from scratch you could be locked out by payment methods.
A very well put together, non-biased review.
the console is 700$ where i am, and the games are 110-115$. Huge pass on this one.
Yeah, it's ridiculous!
The only Switch 2 I can find in my area in the US are from scalpers and they are going for 850$ and up.
Usd?
can confirm im in florida and walmart had listed it for $800 🤮🤮
@@dafeacdamn, such huge domestic difference
nintendo is the disney of video games
Fr
I say apple of video games
disney and nintendo have been trying to copy apple for decades now
@@EstradaDuran-sg6cook excuse me for not knowing everything
Nintendo is the music industry of the video game industry
Something weird about the Switch 2 is how the pricing outside of the US and Japan tend to go into the 600-700$ range.
A lot of people really are getting priced out from next-gen.
PS3 energy lol
Switch 2 isn’t next gen 😂. Base PS4 power.
@@guidope288 it’s next gen for handheld power. X86 alternatives are clunky with abysmal power efficiency. Shoving computer parts into a box isn’t nearly as hard as balancing out the performance profile of a device that needs to satisfy both handheld and TV needs.
It's sad because they'll miss out on all those great next gen features like GAME CHAT
Even on USA you are being scammed with the $450 price, on Japan it's at $350, this should be the price worldwide
Being able to force docked mode on handheld for Switch 1 games is a great shout. You have a 1080p display on Switch 2 and there could be a big benefit there given the Switch 2 should be powerful enough handheld to run switch 1 games on docked mode.
1080p is subpar for 2020, and really subpar for 2025. That processor has way more under the hood. I would put money on a “Switch 2 Pro” coming out next year (or before Christmas) with 2k, 3k, or 4k screen; Possibly the same size. You can get a 5 inch screen with 2k by Sharp thats 10 years old. It was possible.
@@keith_5584 lol I'll take that bet. No way a pro comes out before Christmas 2026, if ever. How much? A £50 bet?
@@keith_55844K 8 inch screen?
You are just saying word now.
@@keith_5584 You're full of it. The Switch has been on the market for 8 years, and never got a "Pro" upgrade to its internals, even when they came out with an OLED model. As for 1080p being subpar in 2025, it's all relative to screen size. Certainly, 1080p is no good for a large television or computer monitor. But it's more than adequate for a handheld. Just because you can go higher resolution doesn't mean you should, since there's always the trade-off of increased power consumption and having to lower settings to meet a higher pixel count. I'd argue that Nintendo should have stuck with the OLED's 720p screen for Switch 2, if not simply to prevent Switch 1 games from having uneven scaling to 1080p.
@@keith_5584 Handheld mode is clocked way down on the Switch 2 but it should still have enough oomph to beat Switch 1 docked.
I don't think Nintendo will do a 4K handheld of the Switch 2, for the most part the Switch 2 is a 1080p system with some 4K support. It's a handheld. What I think we may get is an OLED Switch 2 with an SoC that's not on a crapy Samsung node. Maybe we can get more than 2hrs of battery then.
Will still stick to the Steam Deck for now. Can wait for the oled if it ever comes out
Yep. Emulator and SD card and all games before 2008. And since the games aren’t demanding on today’s hardware; battery life is good :)
@@LTV746 How does it compare to FPGA devices if used for emulation?
@@eightcoins4401can you explain FPGA? I like the ability to use the steam deck how I like.
Sounds like enshittification. I still find it ridiculous having to pay for online service at all, especially if they aren't even going to give a long term guarantee that the servers are going to remain up for a long time. Paying for voice chat is ridiculous. I can kind of understand having to pay a bit for the switch 2 upgrades, because they require some effort from the developers, but that effort is not worth 10$ for most of these games. The console itself is too expensive, at home it competes with PCs that can do way more. Everyone already has and needs one, so just investing that money in a higher budget will yield a much better overall experience. Laptops and Steam Decks are portable as well and can be docked and the games will be way cheaper. It's also competing with cheaper and more powerful PS5s. And 80$ games are ridiculous - for a casual racing game especially and considering you could just play or emulate an older version and have basically the same experience. And the key cards are anti-consumer BS... I'm not impressed by the Switch 2. This entire console generation sucks. At least the Switch 2 will get some exclusives, but the draw of exclusives has also lessened over the years.
Not a bad upgrade but for me it feels overpriced. If you want Nintendo on a budget a Wii U is still hard to beat.
I love my Wii U. I like it way better than the Switch.
16:18 it's the update the switch needed back in 2020 lol
LIES
3:20 minor correction on speeds - these should be 900 megabytes and 600 megabytes per second for reads and writes respectively (rather than megabits, which would be a lot slower!)
Ugh, sometimes I want to go back to the 80s and 90s and slap the people who pushed that megabit nonsense to make their tiny roms and slow data transfer speeds look bigger, especially when it continues to cause confusion decades later.
Agreed. Anytime I'm talking about bandwidth speeds, I always feel I have to post both versions so that people don't get confused, either because they don't know better or only use one version.
I will wait for the revised version; I guess I will wait another 2-3 years.
Same
Exactly this. Might pass on it altogether though either.
Same here
I definitely won't be buying a black ass square like add some colors bruh
Five years
The Switch 2 is just a switch pro everyone speculated but didn’t get.
10:29 Emulators managed to do it. If Nintendo can't find someone to do it, they already know the names and addresses of the ones who can.
"For a launch system, it's fine" That right there is the problem.
no must have games, it is like the old switch but admits old one was weak af, so they pushed a bit stronger gpu
this is not what a console should be, no.
@@arch1107 Mario Kart World is a must have game let's not lie here. It's a follow-up to a top 10 best selling game of all time. That is by every definition a must have game.
@@DigiTensei For anybody who isn't playing with friends, it's really NOT a must-have game at all. I haven't cared about Mario Kart basically since the N64. Hell, even if I had friends who liked Mario Kart, I probably still wouldn't care that much about it. They're pretty shallow games at the end of the day compared to what so many other games offer in comparison. A large empty open world doesn't change this, either.
What’s wrong with fine?
@@neilranson4185 it had to be good, fine means it is more of the same, we already had that, and they know it, that is why the double down on the same
it is fine, and that is the problem, it means stagnation, no progress, no innovation, your new games are the old ones, no new games you must buy, use the old ones that dont run like dog sheet
it is fine, and it is not.
I couldn't imagine spending $530 + tax to play Mario Kart.
Shame on Nintendo.
What truly defines a next-generation console are its exclusive games. So far, the Switch 2 seems to rely heavily on remasters and has only a few new launch titles. Historically, most Nintendo consoles debuted with strong, memorable games right out of the gate. While the Switch 2 introduces impressive features compared to the original, its launch lineup feels underwhelming in comparison.
I'm only interested in the Nintendo exclusive games anyway (especially from the Mario universe). For the rest I have a Pc. So if Nintendo delivers something in the foreseeable future, I'll think about buying it. I do have some Switch 1 games that are getting a Switch 2 update, but that's not enough for me.
The switch had breath of the wild on launch. The wii u had nintendo land. And the 3ds had fuckin face raiders. The switch 2 does not lack compared to these consoles
Switch 1 also relied heavily on ports from Wii U. Nothing new here. Same was on Wii that got many ports from GameCube. And 3DS? Its first successful game was Ocarina from N64.
But because of high price now everybody suddenly opened their eyes. Better late than never, I guess.
@@Sly2Coopernah they just wernt around to know other console launches. Its just playstation and xbox kids whose first consoles were ps5 and xbox series dogging on Nintendo for the millionth time
Switch relief heavily on remasters too. And BotW was originally a Wii U game.
With the download speeds, I think its worth mentioning that the Nintendo servers everything is downloaded from might be throttled when demand is very high to maintain server stability. I can see how the servers would be under stress with literally millions of Switch 2 consoles being setup and starting to download a whole lot of games within just a few days.
I saw this happen on Xbox when Activision accidentally made an update for MW redownload almost the whole game. The download speeds on my Xbox were much slower than usual for a day after that oversized update. It's crazy how one botched COD update could bog down servers and significantly reduce download speeds for everything.
I couldn't even activate my Nintendo Account on the Switch 2 because the login site wouldn't load, so I'll put a coin in this one.
everyone who wanted to play cyberpunk owns it already. i wouldnt rebuy it for $70
Rebuy a DOWNGRADE... lol....
PSN just had it on sale for 30 clams
True, i played it on GOG on PC, and had a blast. If I get a switch 2, why would i get Cyberpunk if it's just a major downgrade for me, to 144fps to 30fps with drops, might be just me, but that just doesn't seem worth it.
This is true. Although I have purchased the switch 2 I will not purchase cyberpunk 2077 because I already have it on ps5 and I’m not compelled enough by just being able to play it mobile to pay again for it at $69.99
I'm a big Mario Kart fan and I think the bundle is totally worth the money. The S2 is a really good upgrade in most aspects and the same is true with MKW. My favorite MK was MK64 with GC being good also. MK Wii was horrible and MK8 (well, deluxe really) made it good again. MKW is in second place now, and might even overtake MK64. A great game so far.
Yeah I wasn’t even planning to get it but after watching this I’m gonna have to give it a hard pass.
Yeah not worth it at all.
ps5 pro $800
This could have been a 5 second video just saying “no”
Why? If you don’t like somthing does that mean it’s not good?
The launch line-up blows hard, but the console checks all the necessary boxes for a new Nintendo console, imo. Didn't expect the mouse inputs to be this precise on my lap for example. The only minor issues I have with the Switch 2 are the sharp edges at the bottom of the L1/R1 buttons of the new joy cons. They feel super cheap, which they should not, considering their price tag. And the old Pro controller doesn't power on the console anymore when pressing the Home button. That'll probably be patched at some point, but I find it very strange that this doesn't work out of the box. There was a fw update available for the controller, but that didn't fix it.
The ps5 got astros playroom on launch.
5 years later it now has astro bot too!
@@Jordanisokatnthwhat does that have to do with op's comment? Nintendo is going to make Switch 2 Goodbye Tour in the future?
I think that's how they want to differentiate the pro and the pro 2 controller. Works fine with the pro 2 controller, so I guess it's definitely a design choice by nintendo
199.99 max. And that’s VERY generous.
Got my son the OLED switch for Christmas 2023, at some point I'll get a 2 but not any time soon. Nintendo has to deliver the software to back up the hardware
That’s never going to happen day one though right, even if it’s a Mario 64 it’s still just one game. Takes time
Quick Awnser: No
Exactly
Back when I was a kid, Nintendo was all about gamers, humble, innovative - just great consoles and great games. Now, it’s a major anti-consumer corporate juggernaut. I don’t feel like a fan being served anymore, I feel like a human money bag being squeezed.
Same here. First console was an NES. Only thing we can do is not pay. Which ironically, is easier to do now more than ever because we're adults with money and more choice. They're really leveraging Nintendo nostalgia as hard as they. I changed to PC gaming 6 months ago and between Steam, PC gamepass, emulation and Switch 1, it's hard to really care about switch 2
Nintendo was also incredibly monopolistic with dubious business practices. Its approach to the market ensured NES and SNES games were v expensive. To be fair they were and remain the best developers in the world.
lol
It's no longer ran by video game enthusiasts, it's ran by bean counters & suits for which video games are "just another market landscape."
Nintendo was ALWAYS a very shrewd company on the business side of things, you were just too young to know or care about it at the time. Even back to the NES/SNES days, the way they treated 3rd party developers and publishers was awful and they had no problem playing dirty to gain an advantage over competition.
Here’s what it comes down to:
If you’re looking for an upgrade from your Switch and want to play new 1st party Nintendo games then it is worth it, if you’re a casual gamer who doesn’t play a lot then no it is not worth it.
More like if you have money to burn and don't care about scummy business practices then it's worth it
@@fnoigyMicrosoft and Sony aren't better
@@vladimir4526 Exactly, and that's why I'm sticking with Switch Lite and PS4 😊
You're not forced to buy something every generation.
I'm sticking with my RTX 3070
@@vladimir4526 yea but nintendo is much worse
HDR10 is basically a tag that means "accepts HDR inputs", because it cannot display them with any degree of accuracy
video game graphics don't need to look like real world tho
especially on switch 2
@Al_Lergic it doesnt have anything to do with "looking like real world". if you have an oled switch and switch 2, put them side by side and look at them. switch 1 doesnt even support hdr, but it looks night and day better on the screen
@@jmporkbob accuracy don't need to be video games . it's art not real life
@@jmporkbob of course oled is going to look better, it was never going to be in the base model, never
@Al_Lergic You're missing the point entirely and hanging on semantics. I didnt mean "accuracy to real life". I meant accurately displaying the HDR signal the way that an HDR signal is meant to be displayed....
The best review I've seen yet. Simple, organized, informative and straight to the point.
Perfect time to upload, I kept refreshing my recommended to watch something while I eat LOL
People complains about 450 USD the price of Nintendo Switch 2 and in my country its costing 800 USD.
You said MegaBITS per second for the MicroSD Express spec, but actually those speeds are in MegaBYTES per second due to them relying on PCI-Express lanes. It's a truly UNBELIEVABLE speed increase. The speeds you gave in MegaBITS per second can be reached by some UHS-I microSD cards and are very slow by modern storage standards :P
I wouldnt call the microphone great
We already had all this on the ds,dsi and 3ds and people calling it revolutionary on the switch is just crazy 💀 additionally to that discord exists, why use gamechat
It sounded metallic, like a tin can, reminded me of some really cheap headphones with built in mic for a couple of dollars and to be fair some of them might be better than this. Maybe something was wrong with that guys switch. It did not sound good. You can almost hear some 7 year old kid screaming through that mic, it would be like an icepick in the ear.
The speakers are not great either. Devices like the steam deck have so much better audio mostly because of front facing speakers.
@@user-10021 Because without gamechat, gamers complains about no native chat service on the console. When they release the native chat service, gamers complain because it features a native chat service when they can just use Discord. You could say, whatever they decide to do, people will complain lol.
Using the Welcome Tour echo demo, my JBL Bar 1000, and my wife 20ft away but facing the general direction of the TV.. The playback sounded almost exactly like her.
If far away and not facing the device, heading up/down the stairs, or the vacuum on(to test noise cancellation) the playback sounds a little bit funny but still clear.
I'm glad I'm not the only one disappointed with the state of physical media on Switch 2.
When I got my Switch 2, I grabbed Cyberpunk and Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma(Great games BTW) as they were the two coolest looking physical games(as in, with the game on the cart) available at launch
As it turns out, they are the ONLY games available on the cart out of the launch catalog outside of first party games. I refuse to buy any key cards. If a a dev only releases as key cards, I'll just wait for a Steam Sale and play it on Deck instead.
Yes, agreed.
I'm not fussed about smaller file sizes, I'll happily spare the plastic on those but for chunky games no physical cart is a deal breaker unless very heavily discounted.
Being better than a code-in-the box isn't sufficient.
At least Steam sales have the courtesy of giving you your "glorified rental" at a 50-75% discount if you've been busy with other stuff up until right then.
Makes no senese to criticize nintendo for lacklustre physical options when you buy digital on steam too. You're part of the problem
Do you have a PlayStation or Xbox?
Lol steam deck is digital only
I think people are less bothered about the price and more about the fact that everything has been going up in cost since 2019. This isn’t just a gaming issue, it’s an economic problem.
One thing I noticed was turning off auto brightness definitely makes a difference. Just moving the slider when it’s on, doesn’t have much of a change when moving it up or down.
Yeah, the screen comparison in this video makes no sense. The Switch 2 screen is extremely bright if you disable auto brightness. Otherwise, you will need to put it under sunlight to see the full auto brightness.
If it is set to auto and you can still move the slider and it doesn't do anything, it is an issue on Nintendo...
10:50 I think you mean to say "while native Switch 2 games are in development"
I really wish Prime 4 would've been a launch title.
unfortunately that would be bad for Metroid sales. Too niche for launch. Mario Kart is an evergreen title and system seller.
For $100 the joy cons should be evergreen
Best honest SW2 review yet. Thanks. Pass 4 Me.
Asus/Xbox HH Z2 Extreme. It will make SW2 look like a distant Memory soon.
In Chile its almost 620 USD, the mario kart bundle is almost 690 USD (nice, but not) and Mario Kart World is almost 100 usd so I'll be waiting for a Christmas deal
South Africa the Switch 2 alone is $705 lol. I don't know a single person spending that kinda money on one here
Already heard reports of joysticks failing again. Can't believe Nintendo was nice enough to bring switch 2 edition of joysticks with a $450 dollar upgrade.
Joy cons don’t cost £450 and all controllers fail to a degree nothing to suggest it’s an issue outside of the norm atm.
Mine didnt fail. Applying your logic, joysticks are not failing again.
No, you've heard that hall effect is not used and therefore concluded they will fail again. PS5 and XS also use the same technology and have only slightly lower failrate than NS.
Pretty expressive for a Mario cart player
The most level headed, down to earth review of the Switch 2 I’ve seen so far. You highlight so many valid criticisms, holding Nintendo accountable where it matters most. Thank you for this 🙏
Fast Fusion is such a good game though, you're really underselling it here. Peak arcade racing.
Me exact thought. Best bang for the buck launch title.
Yep was looking for this comment. It’s so good
The deal breaker for me is the use of key cards I can put up with a lot but I like having a choice between physical and digital key cards are a slap to the face to anyone with a physical collection making only 1 cart size and key carts to test the waters using third parties as a sacrificial genii pig to test the waters basically you first and if people except Nintendo to start using them for there own games I have no doubt that’s the thought process behind them.
both sony and microsoft were doing this years ago with discs, and no one gave a shit then. why is it suddenly a problem now?
Lmao it’s always gamers acting like physical media is sacred. Nobody’s mad their new album isn’t on CD. Nobody’s demanding Netflix mail them a Blu-ray. But a Switch game needs a download and suddenly it’s the downfall of society.
It’s not about ownership anymore, it’s about having something to put on a shelf (to collect dust) and pretend it matters.
@@shootermcgavin1208 I like my albums on CD thank you very much, and movies on DVD & bluray. I also like vinyl records. Not all of us are prepared to pay for something and have nothing to show for it.
Of course the high seas have always been a place to enjoy freedom...
@@shootermcgavin1208 Speak for yourself. I prefer my favourite music on disk.
@@HeavySighSA And you can also speak for yourself. _You_ didn't care when Sony and Microsoft were doing this with disks. A whole lot of other people were angry when they found they couldn't play their favourite games anymore because of it. The "physical vs digital" conversation was a heated one for years.
NO. Draw and a line because It's not just about price.
You don't own the SW2/games. You only buy licenses, and Nintendo can brick YOUR console.
It's just a lease for digital media with extra steps.
so what?
They can brick if you hack your system & pirate software. I don’t see an issue with that.
Ok, you definitely ate some misinformation, you own the games, all first party are physical
@@shootermcgavin1208 They can brick YOUR system.
That IS the issue.
YOUR system is not YOURS
It's NINTENDOs.
Do some people not understand this?
You would think you'd understand being on a channel that talks a lot about MODDING and homebrew.
It's like if you owned a car and modified it with aftermarket parts
then the car OEM comes to your garage and smashes the engine that you can no longer drive the car.
People need to draw a god damn line
, otherwise you just keep accepting MORE and MORE corporate overreach.
Is it NOT enough that the games industry is quick to jump on $80 and $90 game prices?
is it NOT enough we're finding more and more game discs only come with 10MB of data, the rest you have to download
is it NOT enough Sony requires and tried push to have accounts to play their games?
Is it NOT enough that corporate publishers are pushing subscriptions over game buying?
Is it NOT enough they planned to run adds before, during and after gaming session?
is it NOT enough that they tried to shove NFTS, and gambling mechanics in games?
is It NOT enough they discontinue games in stores and threaten game preservation?
Ubisoft "Gamers have to get use to now owning their games"
When we have perfectly fine models like DRM-FREE digital offered by GOG
Where is the line going to be drawn???
The Switch 2 is not selling at all, unlike he said, in the European and US markets, the 2 major ones, is been a disaster in terms of sales in the first days. Switch 2 is expansive for handheld and the games to, stop saying it is not. In Europe console cost around 600€ avarage, if you buy all acessories you need, its more then 800€ lol. Costs more then a PS5 pro wtf.
12:12 FYI: There is a option in the Xbox audio settings that automatically mutes the TV when a headset is connected.
Imagine being on a shit box though.. 😂
@@kolz4ever1980 🥱
@@kolz4ever1980All 3 console makers are shit now, don't play favorites.
We should also remember that a heck of a lot of people would have been downloading titles (as well as re-downloading old software) this past weekend at roughly the same time.
0:23 - who is "we"?
😂
Love this comment 😂😂😂
The channel?
Edit: because the channel doesn't have a gender?
@@Freakazoid12345 lmaooooo
Me and you makes us, baby!
I think it is really cheap for todays market. A damn paprika in the supermarket costs 8 bucks, and a pack of coffee is 10 dollars. A montly subscription for a streaming service is 60 bucks a month... The Switch 2 could have cost 600-800 bucks, and people would still have bought it.
Strange, the HDR, looks great on my LG Oled. Definitely on par with any other console. No washed out look at all. It's definitely a calibration issue on your end.
And I don't understand why your Switch display is so dark, as mine is blinding at max settings 😅
I had a settings issue that was causing the issue on my display he needs to look at the hdr tone mapping setting on his display.
Imma believe him, over you
No duh it looks good on OLED because HDR always looks good on OLED, on LCD, its mid.
@@jimmyjay689you shouldn’t
@@kyperactivethere is no HDR on the switch OLED. he compared a SDR game vs a SDR game on the switch 2. games that use HDR get much brighteron on the Switch 2 than on the Switch OLED.
It's just not a big enough upgrade to justify that price, in my opinion
Let me get this straight. Nintendo released Zelda games for the Switch, some of which came out on the Wii U, that could not run at full speed and wants those who purchased those games to also pay for a patch that addresses the issue so those games can be played at 60fps on the Switch 2?! Got it. A jailbreak cannot come for this system soon enough. Their greed knows no bounds.
I know the system has been hacked as far as a userland exploit, but this does not grant the ability to run unsigned code or backups...yet!
and theres people saying switch 2 is worth it 🤣
MVG with the best level headed review out there. Keep it up my dude.
i guess if you consider ignoring nintendos shady anti-consumer practices as 'level headed' 🤣
holding off for more games wont change anything...its not like the prices will go down..
I have enjoyed Mario kart with my wife, we played through the Grand Prix a few times and unlocked most the stuff, and now it will replace the switch 1 nicely as a paper weight till the next big 1st party Nintendo game comes out with the occasional Mario kart race in between.
I’m playing TotK as if it’s a launch title and having an amazing time.
@@paullucci great cope bro. Nintendo fcked ya
@@paulluccialready played it for over a hundred hours or I would too.
@@williammoore1030it’s definitely the preferred way to play it. I only put about 25 hours into the Switch 1 version and stopped after I realized they would absolutely be making a Switch 2 version. I wouldn’t call the original release’s performance unplayable, but it is not far off. The consistent performance of the Switch 2 really opens the game up.
HDR isn't just peak brightness, it's specifically the ability to display a wide range of luminance across a frame. without some kind of local dimming technology HDR cannot bet displayed propertly, and the Switch 2 display does not support any local dimming. What the switch 2 to does support is HDR10, which is something like a signal format that contains the extra luminance data which is required for HDR.
Interestingly, the Switch OLED did not support HDR either, as the OG switch hardware does not seem to support HDR10 output, so the benefit of the Switch OLED display was actually only that it was much more colour acurate. you would need both the hardware and the display to support HDR to actually get a HDR output to display, meaning that a hypothetical Switch 2 OLED would be nintendo's first true HDR console. (Although the Switch 2 does output HDR10 over HDMI as far as I'm aware, so if you hooked it up to an actually HDR capable display, the image would actually be HDR)
it also depends on how the HDR was implemented on any specific game, so far BOTW and TOTK look subpart because the blacks are raised on both HDR and SDR.
His monitor doesn't support it properly either, where he tested docked HDR, so it's no wonder it looks washed out to him.
That’s why I never got an oled
It's fine. I have a big Switch library, and will upgrade sometimes this year. I think I will be far more cautious with buying games this time around, but I think that is more a sign of the economic landscape.
People commenting before they watched the whole video lol
First time?
Literally, he said its a good upgrade but if you're on the fence to wait for more games to come out like Metroid prime 4 and DK bananza.
The question is were mistakes made?
Greed friend. İts greed.
Some minor mistakes have been made so far. Nothing news worthy so far, but I fully expect a large mistake to be made soon.
Only by those stupid enough to buy this turd...
@@Chad_Thundercock If it runs code, it can be hacked
600e in Sweden. No thanks! I started opting for a new real gaming machine, PC.
you are getting taxed to hell from your country wtf.
PC master race. It's a thing.
Yeah, if I didn't already have a PC, I'd get one over the Switch 2. There's way more variety on that platform and it's much cheaper in the long-run.
Thank you for your review man, completely honest and direct, i just got my hands on the switch 2 and i bought mk world, hyrule warriors definitive edition and bayonetta 3, the screen looks so cool and the graphics are pretty clean + the game cube emulator is a nice extra!
Oh no MVG got the sticker box. Lol
What
@@DonutTPOTer Switch 2 box that doesn't have Mario kart World art on it but just sticker
Do people collect the boxes or something?
yeah, its basically a non bundle pack but they slapped a sticker on and made it a bundle. the actual bundles have it printed on the box.
You’re lucky. The Mario kart bundle is 680eur in Sweden
Taxes
@@leventelajos5078 the retailers blamed the distributor was to blame, which has exclusive price rights, so they took a larger cut. since the price was same at all retailers. who knows what's the truth tho.
@@hanes2maybe go and buy one from a neighboring country
@@hanes2in Hungary we have one of the highesz vat in the world (I think second behind belgium) with 27%
And the price for the bundle is around 550-560 eur
Couldn't you just order it from Germany or something?
The real issue is not the console price imo.
It's that you most likely want additional hardware (camera, pro controller, SD card, etc) or simply need to pay extra for features like game chat, GameCube NSO or simply the normal enhancements of Switch 1 (in some cases).
So it's kind of a money sucking trap if you are not cautious
@MVG PSA IMPORTANT NOTE For TV mode, set HDR to "Compatible games only", otherwise it will force a fake HDR on games that dont support it (for example SF6 doesn't support HDR and looks washed out when this is on )
Also turn off the 120ghz as it will only be applicable to games that support it AND ONLY if you choose 1080p resolution. The. Choose RGB to either limited or full, depending on if you on TV or monitor.
Nintendo is the Apple computers of the video game industry.
- Always releasing hardware that is slightly behind the competition, but still charge a premium for the walled garden.
- Will constantly be the first ones to do something anti-consumer, and have the rest of the industry follow suit.
- Very litigious.
And just like Apple, their fans are die-hard and will always buy their stuff regardless of price.
@@MrSlowestD16 the nSheeple to add to the iSheeple...
- false
- again false
- yes, this is unfortunately correct
People tend to forget that the cost of making games has skyrocketed in the last couple decades. Everyone had the same complaint when the standard cost of a AAA title went from $40 to $60. But the fact is, software engineers, systems engineers, artists, musicians, writers, sound engineers, voice actors, logistics experts, management, and all the other staff to support them (e.g. receptionists, building security, IT support, caterers, transportation and travel, etc.), as well as localization staff, QA, distributors, digital infrastructure, licensing (including software libraries for things like physics engines, etc.), all cost tons of money. The number of people involved in making these games, the salaries and benefits for those people, associated taxes, etc., cost more now than they did before - both in terms of raw dollars, and inflation-adjusted comparisons with older works. Many AAA titles have budgets many times the size of blockbuster movies.
At some point, the cost to the consumer has to go up to fairly compensate those people. It's also a big part of why indie game development is more popular than ever these days - they DON'T require that much money to make.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not blindly defending Nintendo. But it's not like we're not also seeing game prices going up on the competing platforms.
Unfortunately, it's hitting indie studios hard as well. Playtonic Games had laid off about 20 employees as of last week due to those factors you described.
So much cost in making these games yet they aren't even as fun or as well made as the older ones...
@@quadraforest Agreed. New games look amazing but they're nowhere near as much fun as those from the 90s and early 2000s. My favourite game (that I still play regularly in 2025) is Quake 1 (with the Arcane Dimensions mod) - Awesome fun, completely moddable with a HUGE modding and mapping community built around it which is still active and growing, offline install and play, no internet shenanigans, no DRM crap no activation BS and these days, totally free of charge, and still one of the most fun PC games ever released
Would be a valid excuse, if only these CEOs haven't actually been becoming more and more rich and these companies haven't been constantly boasting about increasing profit. Wages have stagnated, but things are getting more expensive. Someone must be getting all the money from it, and it's certainly not the employees.
Also, the reason the prices are going up in competing platforms is because Nintendo has shown it can be done with no consequences.
2:25 Washed out look? ...You're trying out the docked HDR on an XB321HK IPS monitor. It won't work. You need a Mini-LED monitor with plenty of background zones or an OLED to get HDR to look the way it's supposed to. It will definitely look washed out on an edge-lit IPS monitor without background zones. The HDR looks absolutely amazing on my 65" OLED. I calibrate monitors btw, so I know what I'm talking about. If you don't believe me, watch Monitors Unboxed's "True HDR vs Fake HDR?" video. Your monitor can only do max 350 nits brightness, and it can't control that brightness properly without background zones. Ideally, you should have a panel that can do over 600 nits, but around 1000 nits is preferred. 350 nits is so far from that, and without background zones, it'll just do max brightness most of the time, rather than controlling it, which makes it look washed out. You need to get an OLED or Mini-LED monitor that can do around 1000 nits to test HDR properly. Right now, your monitor "supports" it, but can't show it off properly.
Sounds so simple
This is exactly what I needed to hear. Getting to your conclusion, as soon as you said, paraphrasing, 'if you don't care for MKW, then the Switch2 isn't worth it', I have internally made the decision to completely pass on it and just get an OLED as my "upgrade". I have an original gen1 switch that I plan on modding (after doing a bit of research on the potential of it bricking), and though my Switch library isn't huge, it's most definitely not small. Nintendo has always had pretty decent software emulation in their consoles with backwards compatibility, but I just don't trust them enough anymore.
At the end of the day, this is what happens to a company that focuses [mostly] on one specific thing (video games, in Nintendo's case) and is being run by a bunch of MBAs a business suits instead of, you know, *_actual developers who have a love and passion for what they do._* I honestly don't see Nintendo having a good future with Furukawa (or w/e his name is) as the head of NoJ.
I also see the Nintendo Switch 2 performing about as well as the XBOne when it comes to telling their customer base "if you don't like it, don't buy it". Never a smart idea. And this is why I absolutely loathe MBAs and business suits who don't understand anything about their customer base as anything other than wallets to siphon money out of.
I'll wait and see if I am actually right about this (which my gut reactions and forward thinking typically are), or if I'm just underestimating the power of the nintendo *_simp._*
At launch? Hell no.