Analysis of Nintendo Switch OLED: The screen makes the difference

The story of Nintendo with reviews of your consoles is particularly fun. From the moment we spend from the normal Gameboy to Pocket, we have lived one hundred reimaginations of the machines already available at that time. We have had from reductions in size like that we have cited, to chromatic and design touches such as non-sufficiently remembered Gameboy Advance SP Girls Edition and Tribal .

This idyll for the reformulation of its consoles has almost never immersed in the complex waters of the capabilities level review. No need to remember the New 3DS versions and the exclusive games that divided the community so much. Until now, Nintendo Switch had had a Lite model that in fact cut screen and functionalities in the Joy-Con, to favor the portable game.

The bets were with that rumored Switch Pro , which Nintendo denied just a few days ago. But what has just arrived is nothing other than an upward revision, and again in terms of functionalities and not internal hardware. Nintendo Switch Oled was announced on July 6 and is now when it comes to stores.

Nintendo Switch OLED: The secret is on the screen

The first sensation we have with Nintendo Switch Oled is that produced by its packaging . The box is simple both outside and inside, leaving us clear that in Nintendo the important thing is to play. In the first cardboard we have the screen and the joy-with, so that on a second bottom the dock, the cables and the support that next to the joy-with complies the known as Dog Command appears. Two connections and I would already be.

The second thing that jumps at sight is the reason why this console is called: Your screen . Just turn on the console, even if it is to create your nintendo account or walk through the menus waiting to install the games, to realize that this is another roll. The rise in 0.8 inches based on cutting the console frames, already gives to speak. The maximum resolution in portable version is scarce for current 4K standards, but superlative for the dimensions of the console. Therefore, there was room for the improvement doing this triquiñuela, and it is appreciated.

It is no longer that look bigger , is that it looks better . Without improving the resolution, Nintendo has enabled switch to a higher graphic step with those 0.8 inches ... but also by, obviously, the OLED screen .

just what the portable game needed

For those who do not have much idea, the screen of the normal switch models and switch lite was LCD , which makes use of the backlighting system to add visibility. OLED technology, on the other hand, uses the luminosity of each pixel to generate this visibility. In this way, The colors are purer and the contrasts between them much more notorious . This does, for example, that showing a black color is equivalent to turning off a pixel and not to illuminate one that does the same. Hence the difference in tones.

And those two things are the biggest changes in Nintendo Switch Oled. It is not that there is no more, that there are and we will detail them below, but it is that these two things are the ones that really give meaning to the version and make it superior to the current switch. They are adjustments that improve the lives of all users, and they really make OLED vs the classic version in any type of use.

We have been testing the console with the novel game Metroid Dread , and the feeling we had was always playing in the best possible conditions. At the anecdote level, I was playing in the living room during the morning last Sunday while my partner saw a series on television and it was her who lowered the blind so that he did not reflect the sun on the screen, and not me that was at side of the window.

and more improvements

As for the rest of the functionalities, we would like to highlight the audio system in portable mode , which improves the sharpness of sound in an important way. It is appreciated that portable machines are not small from the Gameboy syndrome, in which the quality of sound and battery spending, made us play without sound in not a few occasions.

It is also important to highlight the new metallic finishing base and adjustable position , which earn by a lot of the Endeble plastic tab that the classic switch had. More interesting is still The possibility of connecting an Ethernet cable to dock , a fact that will appreciate players who enjoy the online sate of various games. Of course, also are appreciated these 32 extra gigas in internal storage.

The datasheet

Name : Nintendo Switch OLED. Date of Launch : October 8, 2021. Price : 349.99 euros. Screen : 7 inches OLED. Storage : 64 Gigas (expandable). News : Ethernet port, higher quality adjustable support, improvement in the sound system.