Why i HATE the Switch 2

So I've been using my brand new Switch 2

for a few days now, and there's a few

things about it that I haven't really been

very happy about.

I'm a bit disappointed with it in general.

It hasn't been as exciting as I thought it

was going to be, and to be honest, there's

not really much difference with using this

device compared to using the previous

Switches.

So there's not really much change here.

We've got the same kind of build layout,

the same kind of ideas, just slightly

improved with slightly better graphics and

processing speeds.

But there's also some downgrades.

So the screen is a is actually LCD and not

OLED, which basically means— well, don't

get me wrong, it is a nice screen and

everything, but it doesn't have the vivid

colors and saturations and the deep blacks

like the Switch OLED had.

So I don't really know why they've

downgraded this screen, even though this

is a very expensive device.

It's about £400, and £400 and you don't

even get an OLED screen is kind of a

rip-off in my opinion.

So you kind of get a device that has worse

performance than, say, a PS5.

So you can get PS5 for less than this, and

you also get a experience than, for

example, the Steam Deck OLED, which is

around the same price point as this.

It has a bigger games library if you're

into PC gaming, and it has an OLED screen.

Yeah, the screen is a bit of a

disappointment.

As you can see, I have it on max

brightness, and this is just not very

bright.

When I'm in the conservatory where the

sunlight comes in, I see a lot of glare.

I can't make the screen brighter because

it's on max brightness, and I just think

this would have been so much better if I

had an OLED.

I remember the Switch OLED really blowing

me away with those stunning visuals, and I

just don't really feel the same with this

device.

Also, it's quite a heavy, chunky device,

and it does get a bit tiring holding this

in the hand, which is kind of funny

because it's supposed to be a handheld.

And the battery life has been kind of

disappointing.

So I can play Cyberpunk for maybe about 40

minutes, and by then the battery has gone

down by over 50%.

So you can't really do a lot of long

gaming with this because the battery life

just isn't as good as the previous

Switches.

And that's mainly because it's more

powerful.

So because you have more power in this,

the trade-off is it's going to use more

power.

Which means it's going to drain the

battery faster.

The previous Switches were lower power, so

you could play lower-powered games for

hours and hours and hours and hours

without having to worry about charging.

This, I feel like I need to constantly

charge it between gaming sessions, and I

just didn't really have that problem with

the previous Switches.

And moving on, my biggest problem with

this has to be I just don't really know

what to play on it.

It is a nice device and I would love to

use it, but honestly, I don't really know

what to do with it.

I've downloaded a bunch of games, the old

games I had when I previously had a

Switch, and yeah, I played them for a bit

and it was fun and everything.

It reminded me of those good old days when

I was in Berlin playing with my Switch,

just playing Mortal Kombat and Mario Kart

8 Deluxe.

And I thought, yeah, that's nice and

everything, but I don't really want to

play those games anymore.

It's 2025, I've moved on.

I want to play something new.

So when it comes to new games, well, first

of all, I don't want to play old games on

my brand new Switch 2 because then it

defeats the purpose of buying a Switch 2.

So I'm looking at games that are Switch 2

exclusive And I'm just not really seeing a

lot of games that pique my interest.

I don't really wanna play a new Mario Kart

World 'cause it basically looks the same

as the old Mario Kart, just with slightly

better graphics, which I don't really care

about.

If the gameplay's the same, then I'm not

really that bothered about improved

graphics.

And then there's a bunch of PC games that

came to the Switch too, which at first I

was quite impressed with and I thought,

wow, really?

Cyberpunk on a Switch?

Wow, really?

Elden Ring on a Switch?

Elden Ring's not out, by the way, yet.

So I got myself Cyberpunk 2077 and I

thought it was gonna be really cool.

Everything.

And yeah, I was blown away with how good

it plays and how well the performance is.

And yeah, it looks really good on a

handheld, and the graphics look nice and

everything.

And it was the same old Cyberpunk that I

knew and loved.

And I've already finished— I've already

finished Cyberpunk 2077 on the PC and had

a great time, but I don't really feel like

I want to play it again.

So I was just wondering, um, why am I

playing this game again when I already

know what happens in the story?

I've already played hundreds of hours in

it.

It feels more like a chore, more like

effort, and I'm like trying to do this

thing that takes effort and work when I

don't really care about, um, actually

playing the game again.

And also on the handheld device, it just

doesn't play as well on controllers with

the Joy-Cons as it does with keyboard and

mouse.

And yet you can do like a mouse effect

with the Joy-Cons if you detach it and use

it as a mouse, and it is kind of cool you

can do that, but it's not very comfortable

to use the Joy-Con as a mouse because

you've got all the buttons on the side and

then you kind of trying to struggle to

grip the thing as you're also aiming.

So it's not the ideal way to play, and the

controllers aren't as good as, for

example, a proper control pad.

And then moving on, we have one of the

bigger problems that I seem to face is the

docking mode connected to a computer

monitor.

We have several issues here, starting off

with number one: I don't like how the

cables are on this side.

So when I put my dock on my table like

this The cables are facing the wrong way.

I want them to come over this side.

It would have been nice if they put ports

on either side, or maybe they made the

ports, uh, flat out the back so that the

stick— they stick in that way instead of

sideways.

So unfortunately, I'm gonna have to place

my dock like this.

And also this plastic thingy here, I do

not like this plastic thingy.

It clips in like that.

But then if I want to pull the cables out

to now hook my monitor back into my

laptop, I'll have to then keep unclipping

this back panel thing.

It would be nice if this was magnetic, to

be honest, so it's easier to take out.

So you've got these cables here and they

point out the wrong way, and there's like

a weird staining on the— I don't know if

that's dust or fingerprints, but it's like

weird.

I don't know if you can see it, like weird

staining.

On the plastic

and it doesn't seem to come off when I rub

it.

I don't know what this is actually.

Surely it can't be finger oils because

that's not very good, is it?

So yeah, now my dock faces the wrong way

and also it doesn't fit snugly inside of

the dock.

So look at this,

it wobbles inside of the dock, which is

really weird.

Why couldn't they make it so it— why can't

they make it so it fits snugly in the

dock?

I don't get it.

Why does it wobble like that?

And it doesn't even like click in to the

USB-C port, it just kind of rests in there

and it wobbles like that.

So that is not very good in my opinion.

And also I don't know if the screen is

safe in there.

So I've heard previously that in the

previous dock, we put the screen— they put

the Switch into there, the screen can

sometimes get scratched if it's like

rubbed against it.

So I really hope that's not the case

because that would suck.

Yeah, so you got the dock like that.

Unfortunately, I'm gonna have to face it

away from me, so it looks kind of ugly.

So yeah, now this is the other problem.

So because I've got a curved monitor which

is not standard ratio— aspect ratio of

16:9, it is ultra-wide aspect ratio of

21:9.

So first of all, I thought there's going

to be black bars on the sides, but there's

not.

They've actually just stretched it out So

everything is kind of stretched looking.

So yeah, this is what it looks like on my

monitor.

As you can see, everything is super

stretched, which looks kind of weird.

And unfortunately, there's— from what I

see, there's no settings where I can

change this to 16:9 resolution.

And there's no like, um— so on PC games,

if they have support for ultrawide, it

will fill up the whole screen but not be

stretched.

Unfortunately, it seems like Nintendo

hasn't really thought about this Uh, when

it comes to the game.

So you're either gonna have to get a

normal standard ratio aspect ratio

monitor, or you're gonna have to get used

to this weird stretchy look, which is a

bit frustrating because this is a nice

monitor and it cost me a pretty penny, and

I was hoping to be able to use this for

some Switch gaming.

I mean, it is usable.

I guess you do get used to it after a

while, and it might be better than having

to buy a whole new television.

Also, you might have noticed there's no

sound.

This is a really weird thing, is the

monitor does have a built-in speaker, but

for some reason the Switch 2 doesn't

detect the built-in speaker and there's

just no sound.

It gives you an option to connect a

Bluetooth speaker, but I don't have a

Bluetooth speaker, so I'm gonna have to

buy a Bluetooth speaker to get any sound

or use headphones, which I also don't have

any headphones.

I mean, the quality is extremely good.

So I've got this set to 4K, I think, and I

think, yeah, this is a 4K monitor.

And it looks so crisp.

I mean, look at the ground details.

The details in the game do look really

amazing.

It's just a shame it's all stretched out

like this.

And look at these, uh, vehicles.

Yeah, it's just crashing into my car.

Thanks for that.

Yeah, the game does look really good, I

have to say.

Um,

yeah, I don't know if other games have—

it's just wrecking my car.

Oh my God.

This person needs to die now.

Look, she's got blue hair as well.

Look at her blue hair.

That's what you get for wrecking my car.

Oh my God, NPCs are going crazy now.

So it's kind of annoying they don't have

ultrawide support.

It would have been nice,

or it would have been nice to have an

option in the settings to be able to

check, change the aspect ratio, and I

checked and you can't.

So yeah, as you can see in the settings,

you have HDR output, TV resolution, So I

can put it to 4K, 720, uh, dock output

information.

What else do we have?

RGB range, that's just the colors.

You can do adjust screen size, but

whenever I do this, it kind of zooms into

the screen and then I have to unplug the

HDMI cable to set it back.

Otherwise it crops in really closely for

some reason.

And there's burn-in.

What else?

Match TV power state.

120Hz output.

There's no aspect ratio option, um, but I

don't know if I'd want to do that anyway

because then I'd have these black bars on

the side.

So there's no ultrawide support, which is

pretty disappointing.

So yeah, I don't know how to figure out

how to make the Switch detect my monitor's

built-in speakers because they just don't

get detected at all for some reason.

The sound doesn't come out the monitor.

Don't really know why.

I guess the only option would be to get a

Bluetooth speaker and then connect that

Bluetooth

speaker to the Switch.

I guess this game— yeah, I mean, it still

looks kind of stretched, doesn't it?

I don't know if you get used to it or not.

Playing without sound really sucks, so I

don't know if I'm going to get some

speakers to play this on the monitor.

I know it's been designed to play on a TV

with the dock, and people don't really—

they're not really going to use a computer

monitor to play console games on, but this

is an expensive monitor and I would have

liked to be able to use it instead of

having to get a TV.

I don't really want to get a TV,

to be honest.

So yeah, this plays pretty well.

I guess you would get used to the stretch—

the stretched look after a while.

Kick me right in the balls.

Yeah, so this is probably the most

disappointing aspect of it, but I guess

it's pretty cool you can, you can even use

the monitor at all.

I didn't think you'd be able to.

It's quite fun gaming.

Oh my God, this game sucks though.

NPC's so hard to kill.

Oh my God, what a stupid game.