Why I replaced my Gaming Laptop with a Switch Lite

Hello! So today I want to talk about why I

decided to replace my gaming laptop with a

Nintendo Switch Lite. Well, I've always

been a pretty hardcore PC gamer. Well,

I'm not hardcore, I just play a lot of

games casually. I don't know if that

counts as hardcore. Well, my favorite game

used to be Rainbow Six Siege, and even

though you can play it on the PlayStation

and Xbox, I liked playing on the PC

because I had a good mouse and a good

keyboard. I had a pretty good setup.

Okay, my laptop wasn't high-end or top-end

or premium, only cost me about £1,000,

which is about $1,300. It was a pretty

good laptop. I bought it last year in

2019. I think the model was

GP63-8RE Leopard,

and it had a GTX 1060 graphics card, 16GB

of RAM, 128GB SSD, And for the

processor, it had a Core i7 8th

generation. So it was a fairly decent

laptop. It could play Rainbow Six Siege on

ultra settings and The Witcher 3 on ultra

settings without any problems. And I

plugged this laptop into a curved 32-inch

MSI gaming monitor. I also had a wireless

Logitech mouse. So I think it's

fair to say that I had a fairly decent

gaming setup there. And why did I trade

all of that in for a very, very cheap £180

Nintendo Switch Lite? So I guess I'll try

and explain in today's video why I decided

to choose a £180 Switch Lite over my

£1,500 gaming setup.

Well, it all began when I went back to

England for Christmas and I decided that I

wanted to have a little gaming device that

wasn't the iPad Even though the iPad's a

pretty good gaming device, it's just a

little bit too big and too cumbersome,

and I thought having a Switch Lite would

be nice because it's smaller sized and it

has buttons and it has much better games

than the iPad Pro does. And you might

be thinking, Daniel, why didn't you just

take your gaming laptop with you? You

know, put it into your bag and then play

Rainbow Six back at home? Because the

gaming laptop is pretty damn heavy, and I

hate it when you go to the airport, you

have to take out all of your electronics

And yanking out that big old laptop with

the power brick and all the cables is just

too much trouble just to play Rainbow Six.

And I would also have to bring my mouse,

my keyboard, plus I would need a table to

sit at to play it. And we were going back

to England for Christmas to spend time

with my family, not so I could sit there

playing Rainbow Six all day. So when I was

back home in England, we went shopping and

there was a game shop. That sells games,

and I saw the Nintendo Switch Lites and I

was just so tempted I couldn't resist. I

ended up buying one in blue, and I

stupidly bought Mario Kart again, which I

didn't have to because I previously bought

it on my older Switch and I could have

just redownloaded it from the Nintendo

eStore. But for some reason I completely

forgot that, that I downloaded it on the

eStore and I could have downloaded it

again, and I wasted £40. I also got

The Witcher 3 on the Switch Lite, and I

really enjoyed it for some reason. I was a

bit surprised I enjoyed it so much because

like I explained in my Witcher video, I

didn't really like The Witcher 3 when I

first tried it all those years ago when it

first came out. But I did really enjoy

playing it on the Switch Lite, so I played

it non-stop constantly all the time during

our Christmas trip, and I played it for 8

hours straight on the aeroplane back home.

Back here to Japan. It's funny, I call

Japan home now. A bit weird. Why am I in

Japan? I'm not even Japanese, I'm bloody

English. Why the hell is Japan my home

now? And can you imagine my dad, my mum

thinking, oh, we've just given birth to

baby boy Daniel. In 30 years' time, he's

going to be living in Japan. But they

never thought that, did they? But they

never expected that, did they? Anyways,

this video is not about my parents or

where I live. What was I saying? Oh yeah,

I played 8 hours straight Witcher on the

aeroplane, then I got back home to Japan

and I thought, well, I'm back home now,

got my gaming setup, my laptop's here,

and I downloaded The Witcher 3 on the PC

again. So this is the 3rd time I've bought

The Witcher 3. That company must bloody

love me. What's the name? Project CD— CD

Projekt Red, I don't know. And I really

enjoyed playing The Witcher 3 on my big

32-inch curved monitor. It was fantastic.

The graphics were just amazing on ultra

mode compared to playing on the Switch.

And I finished The Witcher 3, got the

worst ending where Ciri dies.

Didn't like her much anyway. She just

seemed like a boring, whiny woman.

And I thought, well, now, now I've

finished playing The Witcher 3, I might as

well go back to playing Rainbow Six. So I

tried playing Rainbow Six again. Played a

few matches, but for some reason something

was different. I just couldn't get back

into it. It was just boring after playing

The Witcher 3. I wanted something more

from the game instead of just running

around inside of a tiny house trying to

shoot people. It just felt kind of stupid,

and I thought to myself, I don't want to

play Rainbow Six anymore. And the only

reason I had the gaming setup in the first

place was so I could play Rainbow Six.

There weren't really any other games I

desperately liked playing that I

desperately needed a gaming laptop for.

So I thought to myself, if I just pack all

my gaming stuff up and then sell it, I

could get a decent amount of money for all

that because it cost me £1,600-ish in

total. I could get at least half that back

if I sell it. I could get maybe, oh,

$800 to $1,000 maybe if I take it to

Yodobashi Camera. In Osaka. I've always

been thinking about this in the back of my

mind. Could I successfully replace my

gaming laptop with a Switch Lite? And at

first I thought it wouldn't be possible

because I'm just not really a huge

Nintendo fanboy. I don't like Nintendo

games. I'm going to be completely frank

here. I think Mario is stupid. I think

Zelda is stupid. I think Pokémon is

stupid. I used to love Pokémon when I was

a 14-year-old and I really liked playing

the first Pokémon games on Game Boy. I had

Pokémon Red, my friend had Pokémon Yellow,

and it was great. I was completely

addicted to it. But after I grew up, I

just completely lost interest in anything

Nintendo. So as you can imagine, I wasn't

really that excited to get a Switch Lite

until I realized that there's a lot of

PC games on the Switch, aren't there?

There's a lot of indie games and old PC

games and fairly recent PC games having

Switch ports being made for them, and

they're being ported over to the Switch.

I don't even need to like Nintendo to be

able to enjoy the Switch. And this is why

I love the Switch so much. It's basically

like a tiny little gaming laptop that you

can put in your pocket that's really

inexpensive, and there's loads of PC games

on it, loads of indie games, loads of PC

games that used to be very popular years

ago. You can even get Skyrim on it, for

Christ's sake, for God's sake. You can get

The Witcher, you can get these massive

open-world games that were built for the

PC. Now years later, they can actually be

played from a tiny little portable device.

That just blew my mind. And you can also

get these older PlayStation 1 games like

Final Fantasy. Pretty much all of the

Final Fantasy games are available, plus

you can get the Resident Evil series

games. There's just so much. That you can

get on the Switch. Even if you don't like

Nintendo games, you can get all these

other games, even from Sega. You can get

Sonic on it. My dream is I

wish they had Metal Gear Solid as well,

and I wish they had Jet Set Radio, Crazy

Taxi, you know, some of the Dreamcast

classics would be amazing on the Switch,

and some more PlayStation 1 classics would

be amazing on the Switch. GTA, why isn't

that on the Switch? That would be perfect.

I mean, it's on iPad. If the iPad can run

it, I think a bloody Switch can run it as

well. I think there are other portable

devices that were specifically made to

play Steam games or PC games, but I don't

think they were very successful. I think

Alienware is also making like a rip-off,

very, very expensive Switch of their own,

but it's going to cost like £1,000. I

don't want to spend £1,000 on a portable

gaming device. I want it to be cheap and

simple and good. And that's just basically

what the Switch is. It's extremely cheap.

In Japan, you can get it for £160 brand

new, which I should have done. I should

have bought it in Japan instead of buying

it in England. In Japan, everything's a

lot cheaper. And I can happily say that

after about a few weeks of packing away,

of putting— after putting away my gaming

laptop, I completely lost the desire to

play Rainbow Six. And I feel like I don't

need the gaming setup anymore. I feel like

I've been freed because it was kind

of like a ball and chain. If I wanted to

go anywhere, for example, if me and my

wife had a fight and I wanted to run away

and I didn't know if I was going to come

back or not, I had to pack my bloody

gaming laptop and the power brick and all

the accessories into my bag. It weighed a

ton, made my back ache, and I didn't even

use it because, you know, I was in a

hotel. I had other things to keep me

preoccupied, if you know what I mean. And

I wasn't really in the mood to play

Rainbow Six when I was in that kind of

situation. But I had to bring it with me

because if I ended up not going back to my

wife, then that would have been a lot of

money just flushed down the toilet.

Sometimes people ask me, Daniel, what do

you do all day now? Now that you don't

have a gaming setup? I say I play Mario

Kart or I play The Witcher on my little

nifty Switch Lite, and it's scratching my

gaming itch perfectly well, just as well

as the gaming laptop did. I don't really

do much because I don't work and I just

sit at home watching YouTube all day. And

watching YouTube and Netflix and films is

fine, but I need something else to do with

my hands. I'm not the kind of person who

just likes to watch stuff and then not do

anything else. I like to multitask, so

I'll have YouTube in the background just

playing stuff but I like something in my

hands so I can play with, and the Switch

Lite is perfect for that. I just race laps

round and round Mario Kart trying to get

first place whilst watching Dragon's Den,

and whilst I'm waiting for the next round

to begin, I just watch YouTube whilst I'm

waiting. And yeah, it's great because

there's so many different types of games

on the Switch. If I want to play online

competitive games, there's Mario Kart,

there's— I also got Overwatch, which is

pretty good. Not as good as Rainbow Six,

but it's similar, and it does kind of

satisfy me in a similar way, which is

being able to play with other people

online and shooting them. It is a bit

uncomfortable using the control pad to aim

and shoot. I'd prefer mouse and keyboard,

but you know, you can't really have one of

those on the Switch. And the feeling— how

can I describe it? I feel liberated. I

feel like I'm a little boat in the ocean,

and the gaming laptop was this big old

anchor anchoring me down. And now that

I've cut away from the anchor, I feel so

free and so light. If I wanted to, you

know, run away or go somewhere by myself,

all I have to do is pack my little Switch

into my bag. That's it. It barely weighs

anything. It weighs like 150 grams, which

is nothing. It's just funny. The only

reason I had the gaming laptop in the

first place was because I was so addicted

to this one game, Rainbow Six Siege.

And now that I haven't played it for over

2 weeks, I don't even know why I was so

addicted to it in the first place. You

know, it's an okay game, but it's not that

groundbreaking or rejuvenizing or

revolutionary. It's not necessary. You

don't need to have Rainbow Six in your

life to be happy. And having the Switch

really opened my eyes to that fact.

So I just want to say thank you to

Nintendo for making such a great device,

even though your games kind of suck.

Maybe I would like Nintendo games if I was

a 10-year-old child, but unfortunately I

like my games to be a bit more serious.

Or, you know, it's okay if they look

cartoony, and babyish like Mario Kart

does. As long as the gameplay is good,

then I can— I guess I can forgive it. And

for the future, I would like to see more

PlayStation 1 classics. I'm not sure if it

could handle PlayStation 2 classics. I

would like to see more fighting games. I

know Mortal Kombat is on it, but I don't

like Mortal Kombat. I would prefer

Soulcalibur or Tekken. That'd be great.

And maybe some more Dreamcast games. Sega

already has games on it, so I don't see

why they couldn't just bring out the

Dreamcast Classics. Sonic Adventure? Oh

wow, that would be amazing on the Switch.

So if you feel like you're addicted to a

game and you can't live without your

gaming laptop, I would say just switch it

off, pack it away, put it into your

closet, get a Switch Lite, see how that

goes, because it works pretty well for me

and I've never felt more nimble and

light-footed in my life.