Why I Regret Buying the Switch 2 - VERY Disappointing...

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

today we're talking about the Switch 2. I

just got my brand new Switch 2 yesterday,

and as someone who's had the original

Switch, the Switch Lite, the Switch OLED,

I knew I just had to get the Switch 2 as

well. But unfortunately, it's been kind of

bland, boring, and a little bit

disappointing so far. So it costs about

£400, and it's got decent hardware. It

could play fairly modern games from about

4— 3 or 4 years ago, like Elden Ring,

Cyberpunk, stuff like that, Hogwarts

Legacy. So it's quite cool that it can

play these fairly modern games, but it's a

bit disappointing that it doesn't have any

newer games that were released maybe the

last year or two because I'm pretty sure

most people have already played things

like Elden Ring or Cyberpunk. So at first

I was really excited to get my hands on

it, and it is quite a nice sleek device.

As you can see, it is fairly large as well

compared to the previous Switches. Its

screen is much bigger than the previous

Switches. So as you can see, I don't have

extremely tiny hands. I say I have about

average hands, but yeah, I am having

difficulty gripping this comfortably is

quite a large thing. If you've had a Steam

Deck before, this definitely feels around

the size of a Steam Deck, but not as thick

or chunky as a Steam Deck. So the screen

is really impressive. So you've got a big

nice screen. Unfortunately, it's not an

OLED screen. For some reason they've gone

for LCD screen, I think to cut back on

costs. And also apparently there's new

technology with the LCD which makes it

basically as good as OLED. That's what

they claim. But I would've liked to have

had an OLED screen for the price. £400 for

this console. Is quite pricey considering

the fact that a Steam Deck is only about

$350, I think, and you get ROG Ally for

about $300. And those are much more

powerful machines that can actually play

every single game that is currently on

Steam, whereas this one, it can only play

PC games that have been handpicked to be

ported over to the device. So you don't

have a lot of choice when it comes to

games, and there's not many games that

came with it on launch. There's like a new

Mario Kart World game, there's a bunch of

third-party PC games which, like I said

earlier, are kind of old now. So the main

dilemma dilemma I have with this is after

the excitement of unboxing it and playing

around with it and detaching the Joy-Cons,

which do have quite a nice clicky magnetic

attachment— yeah, I do quite like the

design of it— after admiring the design

and enjoying the feel of it in the hand,

you start wondering, okay, what do I do

with it now? I want to play games on it.

There's, there's like no new games on it

that I could play that I really want to

play. So you end up basically just

downloading your old game library from

when you used to have a Switch before,

and then you can download your old games

from the eStore the eShop and then just

end up playing the games you used to play

like 5, 10 years ago nearly on your brand

new Switch 2. So you just paid £400 for

this state-of-the-art modern handheld and

you're basically just playing really old

games on it. It feels like, what am I

doing? Why did I just shell out all this

money and I can't even find anything I

really want to play? It's like I have to

struggle and put in work and effort to try

and find something that I want to play on

this big nice screen. So I know it's just

released, So the launch titles aren't

exactly impressive. You've got basically

Zelda: Breath of the Wild Tears of the

Kingdom, but you've got some improvements

like increased FPS and increased

performance. But you have to pay extra,

like $6 or $10, to get the extra improved

features, which is just kind of silly

because you already paid for the game.

Uh, it feels a bit unfair that they're now

trying to squeeze extra money out of you

by saying, oh, here's some extra new

improvements, but you gotta pay this money

for it. So I'm not going to pay for it. I

don't really care that much about the

increased improvements. I'm not really

going to play Tears of the Kingdom and

Breath of the Wild all over again from the

beginning. These games are long games.

I've already played them. I've already

finished them. I don't really want to

waste my time playing it again. I want to

play new stuff. Now I have to admit, it is

pretty impressive to be able to play games

like Cyberpunk or Street Fighter 6. You

know, these PC games that had pretty good

graphics at the time of the release. It is

pretty cool that we can now play this on a

Nintendo Switch device. But in 2025,

in a day and age where we've got other

handheld consoles that have already

achieved this before the Switch 2 was able

to achieve it— we've got Steam Deck, ROG

Ally, Legion Go, MSI Claw, AYANEO— there's

so many Windows handheld devices that can

already play PC games handheld with much

better performance and much better

graphics. It's not really that impressive

anymore to be able to play Cyberpunk on a

handheld. It's impressive to be able to

play it on a Switch because, you know,

when the Switch first came out, it only

really had Nintendo standard games like

Mario. And to be able to play PC games on

a handheld back then was something

unimaginable at the time. But now times

have moved on, we have already grown

accustomed to having powerful Windows

handheld devices, so it's really not that

impressive when you think about it. And

when you also think about the fact that

you can get a handheld device, a

Windows-based one, for cheaper than this

that has a bigger games category because

you have access to all of Steam, it makes

you kind of wonder Why would you choose

this over one of those Windows handheld

devices? Also, a Windows handheld device

has other functionality, like it has a

full-blown Windows operating system. It

can literally become a desktop computer.

You could run Chrome and browsers on it,

you can watch YouTube, you could do

spreadsheets, you could even edit videos

on it. You could do anything on a Steam

Deck or an ROG Ally that you can do on a

computer. Same can't really be said for

the Switch 2. You can't even watch YouTube

on this. So you can download the YouTube

app, I have it downloaded here, Um, but

when you try and open it, it just says

it's not compatible for some reason. So

there's no YouTube on it, there's no

Netflix, there's no web browser on it.

You can't do anything on this apart from

game, and you can't even watch videos on

it now. I don't know if you can watch

movies on it because it would be nice as

like a little movie viewing tablet because

you've got this nice little kickstand,

you can detach the controllers, and then

you have like a little nice neat little

tablet that would be good for video

viewing if you wanted to do that. But I

don't know why they haven't released a

compatible version of YouTube on it. So

it's like a worse gaming device than a

Windows handheld device. It's also a worse

computer than a Windows handheld device

because there's just no way you can do the

things on it that you could do with a

Windows handheld device. So you kind of

wonder who's going to buy this over Steam

Deck or ROG Ally. So the question— I mean,

the answer to that question is people who

want to play Mario games and Nintendo

Donkey Kong, Metroid, stuff like that,

Zelda. You're gonna have to get one of

these. But if you don't really care about

Nintendo— I've never really been a big fan

of Nintendo games. I only got these

previous Switches because I wanted a

lightweight gaming device that has good

battery life, it's portable and slim. The

problem with these Windows handheld

devices is that they are quite chunky and

thick and the battery life is not very

good, so I have preferred Switches over

the Windows devices mainly because I do

like to play some simple third-party games

like Darkest Dungeon or Mortal Kombat.

And yeah, I never really was a big fan of

Nintendo games. I tried a few here and

there but they never really blew me away

or I never really got hooked on them, so I

never really cared too much for them. So

I'll say at the moment it is kind of

underwhelming, and you might be better off

waiting for a little bit for more games to

be released until maybe there's something

impressive that actually comes out on it.

And also the price of the console might

come down if you wait a little bit longer.

So as of right now, you can buy it and

there are some games on it, but they're

just going to be old games that you've

probably already played, unless you

really, really want the new Mario Kart

World game, which to me basically just

looks the same as the previous Mario Kart.

It doesn't really look any different. If

you want to play old games like Cyberpunk,

older games, like Breath of the Wild or

Tears of the Kingdom, I guess it's a good

console to get if you want to try those

games out. And yeah, I guess we just need

to be patient. As of right now, I can't

really recommend buying it, mainly because

there's just— I don't know what to play on

it. Like, I'm sitting here with it and I

have no real strong urge to play any— I

want to play something on it, but I just

don't know really what I want to play on

it. So for those reasons, I can't really

recommend buying it as of right now, and

it is a little bit disappointing.