Why I Regret Buying The Switch 2

Hello, welcome back to a new video.

So as you can see, I have the brand new

Switch 2 in my hands.

It is a brand new gaming device, as you

can see, Switch 2.

And, um, yeah, we're gonna do a review

today why this thing is a bit lackluster,

a bit disappointing.

First of all, let's have a look at the

hardware or the actual console.

So, you know, very typical, same as the

previous Switch but bigger screen.

Much longer this way, which makes it kind

of difficult to hold.

You've got these magnetic Joy-Cons, which

I don't really see why they bothered to do

this because I didn't really have any

problems with the original way it just

slotted in.

So you've got this button here, it just

pops out.

Basically this button, all it does is pop

out like a little plastic pin, so you can

see there, and it pushes it away from the

magnet so it separates from the magnet,

and then it clips back on

quite easily.

Like that.

Then you've got the other one there.

So yeah, that pulls off as well.

So the main problem with this thing is the

Switch 2 in general is there's just not

really anything I really want to play on

it, and there's not really a huge choice

of games right now because it's quite a

new console, and I guess that's to be

expected since it's just launched.

And yeah, you go into the eStore and

there's just not really much to play.

I don't really know what to play on it.

You've got Mario World, Kart, Mario Kart

World, which doesn't really impress me

much.

You've got Cyberpunk, which is cool and

everything, but I've already played

Cyberpunk.

I've already finished it.

I've finished it nearly twice actually,

and I've played the DLC, so I don't really

know if I want to actually play it again.

They've got this Fusion, Fast Fusion

thing, uh, Split Fiction.

I don't know what these games are.

You've got the old games like Zelda is

back on, and this time it's got an upgrade

pack where they want you to pay more money

so you can get some extra features like

improved FPS, which I don't really care

about.

There's Street Fighter, which is quite

nice I guess on the handheld, Minecraft

again obviously, Fortnite, Hogwarts

Legacy, No Man's Sky, Hitman.

So yeah, you've got quite a lot of games

on it, but the thing is they are all old

boring games that everyone and their

grandmother has already played.

If you haven't played any of these games,

I don't know how you call yourself a

gamer.

Like, how do you have not played any of

these games yet when they're over 5,

nearly 5 years old, some of them?

So unless you're like a 5-year-old back

when they came out and now you're a

10-year-old or 12-year-old who's never

played these games, then I don't really

see, um, any games on here that I really

want to play, to be honest.

So yeah, I'm just like quite impressed

with the hardware.

It looks nice and everything, sleek, big

screen, very nice, good, good.

But I don't know what to play on it, so I

just went back and downloaded my old games

that I had when I used to have a Switch

before.

So I had Dark Souls Remastered, I had

Darkest Dungeon, I had Mortal Kombat 11,

which I actually played quite a lot, I had

Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

Unfortunately, I can't download Mario Kart

8 because I didn't have the online

version.

I had the soft— I mean, I had the

hardware— I mean, I had the physical disc

thing, you know, the little cartridge.

And I also got Cyberpunk.

I bought the physical copy, which I'm not

sure if I'm actually going to play or not.

So I'm actually playing some Darkest

Dungeon like that.

So yeah, it runs really well, as you would

expect.

Well, I bet it do.

I mean, it would be stupid if it ran worse

than the original Switch.

So yeah, I mean, it's quite a nice device.

I think the Switch

OLED kickstand was better.

So this kickstand is like a frame instead

of having that wide bit of plastic like

the original Switch did.

So yeah, I'm not really sure if I like

this or not.

I guess in a way it's a bit underwhelming,

I guess I'd say.

It feels exactly the same as using the

previous Switch, but I guess it runs a bit

faster.

So you go into the eShop and, um, it

doesn't feel as laggy, but I mean, the

eShop still isn't very snappy.

So when you're like flicking through these

things, it it takes a few seconds to load

the images.

See, it doesn't feel super responsive as

it should do.

And these are the games you can get on it:

Red Dead, Skyrim.

So these are the games you got on the

original Switch as well, because this is

the eShop.

These aren't Switch 2 exclusives, although

I would hope that they run better at

least, but probably not, because I reckon

they haven't really done any optimization

for all the games because that will take

forever.

So yeah, you got your eStore, you got your

home screen, which basically looks exactly

the same with these tiles, although they

put this kind of multicolor border around

things.

Also, the battery drains pretty fast.

I swear I charged this to 50% and I

haven't even been playing yet and it's

already gone down to 28%.

So I don't know why it's using battery.

Also, the YouTube app doesn't work.

It just says could not start software when

you try and open it.

So you've got the— what else?

Switch Online,

where you can play old games, Nintendo

Classics.

So you've got Nintendo Classics, you can

play— you can only play 3 GameCube games:

Soulcalibur, Wind Waker, and F-Zero.

You can play a bunch of Game Boy Advance

games.

And this costs £3 a month for the

membership, so I guess it's quite good

value.

You've got a bunch of N64 games and,

uh, Super Nintendo and Game Boy games.

So yeah, so every generation of Nintendo

consoles has got the exact same games all

the way back to the beginning, apart from

this one maybe.

This is the first one,

and I mean, he kind of looks like Mario.

This is like before they had all the

famous characters.

Oh yeah, you got Mario, I guess.

Bunch of sport games.

Uh, you got a game, and every time you go

to a different generation of consoles,

always same games.

Mario, Kirby, Metroid,

Zelda.

Mario, Kirby, Metroid,

Zelda.

Mario, Kirby, Metroid, Donkey Kong.

Mario.

How many?

There must be like 1,000 Mario games at

this point.

And then Zelda.

It's like they've only got 4 or 5

franchises and they just redo them over

and over and over and over and over again

forever.

And they— it's weird because,

I mean, no other company just does the

same game IPs over and over and over and

over and over again.

Like Metal Gear Solid, they don't have

like Metal Gear Solid 1,000, number 1,000.

Halo, they've done, I don't know, maybe 6

to 10 games, but Mario, there's like 1,000

of them.

Usually game companies would, would milk a

game franchise for a bit and then just

stop making sequels to it, but not, not

with Nintendo.

So yeah, you got the store, you got the

home page.

I don't know what's happening,

and, um, screen looks kind of dark.

I feel like The screen doesn't seem as

bright and vivid as the Switch OLED did.

And then you got the speakers.

Speakers are pretty good.

The glare is quite glaring, so playing it

in here would be—

I've already cranked the brightness to

max.

Embark.

Yeah, so the reason I bought this was

because, um, I want something to game on.

My laptop, gaming laptop, is not the best

experience to do gaming on, especially

because it's not really powerful enough to

play games on my big monitor.

It kind of needs a more powerful graphics

card, so I always have to play games on

lower settings, and even then it doesn't

play super smoothly.

So I wanted to get this to play optimized

games smoothly in a comfortable way with a

high

handheld format.