DO NOT BUY the Switch 2 - VERY disappointed...

Hello, welcome back to a new video.

So today we're talking about the Switch 2.

As you can see, I have my brand new Switch

2 here and we're playing Cyberpunk 2077 on

it.

And there's a few things about the Switch

2 that I've kind of realized, and we're

going to talk about it in today's video.

So currently I have my Switch 2 in the

dock and it's connected to my gaming

monitor, which is a computer monitor, it's

not a television.

And I've come to some realizations upon

docking it to my computer monitor, and

that is basically I don't understand why

the Switch 2 exists.

I feel like the Switch 2 is inferior to my

gaming laptop in almost every single way.

Let me explain.

So I've had conflicting opinions about

this.

First of all, I thought, hey, this is

really cool, I can hook up my Switch 2 to

my gaming monitor and the game honestly

looks really amazing.

Let me zoom in.

We've got 4K quality.

I mean, look at the textures in this game.

Hold on a minute.

Just get the angle right.

So look at the textures in the game, and

keep in mind I'm not screen recording, I'm

literally filming a video of my monitor.

But yeah, the details in this game look

really good, and you would be shocked that

this is running off of a Switch 2.

And, um, yeah, it looks really nice.

So the game runs really well,

but there's a few problems.

Let me, let me explain.

So first of all, uh, you see the black

bars on the side of the monitor?

Yes, this is an ultra

wide monitor.

Um, it's 21:9 aspect ratio.

The Switch only seems to support 16:9

ratio, and there's no— there doesn't seem

to be any ultra-wide support like I have

on my laptop.

So I got Cyberpunk 2077 on the PC as well,

and I've obviously finished it, and

there's actually a wide angle— I mean,

there's, um, ultra-wide support for the

game.

But unfortunately with the Switch 2, none

of the games seem to have ultra-wide

compatibility.

And, um, yeah, it is a bit annoying that

you get these black bars on the side of

the monitor.

Now you can kind of fix this in a way if

you go on to the monitor settings and

choose to fill the whole screen, but then

you get this horrible stretched image.

Let me show you.

Yeah, so now I've chosen full screen, full

wide on the monitor,

and have a look.

So we got the whole screen now filled up,

but now everything is stretched really

wide.

And to be honest, it kind of looks weird.

And I don't know, maybe you wouldn't mind

it, or maybe you could get used to it, but

for me it just seems a bit strange.

Everyone looks really fat and wide,

and it looks kind of weird.

Also, you might have noticed there's no

sound.

Yeah, the main problem with playing

through a monitor like this is that

there's no sound if you don't have

speakers.

Now the weird thing is

Uh, my monitor does have built-in

speakers, but for some reason the Switch 2

doesn't seem to detect that there are

built-in speakers.

Also, when you're running, I don't know

why, but it's like very shaky.

It's like no stabilization.

I— it's kind of making me feel a bit sick,

and I don't know if there's options to fix

this.

So you do get kind of motions.

I don't know if there's a setting in here.

Uh, gameplay.

Um, doesn't seem to be any options.

You've got motion blur, maybe turn that

off.

Graphics mode, uh, you don't really get a

lot of options to be honest with when it

comes to graphical fidelity.

And then with the sound, I've chosen TV

speakers, but yeah, it doesn't matter

which one I choose, there's just no sound

coming through my monitor speakers.

I don't know why.

So yeah, that's a bit annoying.

Um, I wouldn't say it's unplayable like

this.

I'm just saying that it looks a bit

strange with it all being so stretched out

like this.

So I was thinking was that, uh, oh yeah,

there's another really cool thing you can

do, which is you can plug in a keyboard

and mouse into the dock and then actually

use it like a gaming computer.

Let me show you.

Okay, so as you can see, I've now plugged

in my keyboard and mouse to the dock.

The problem is sometimes the keyboard

glitches out and some of these lights come

on and off.

I don't know if it's because the cable's

faulty or not.

But it has happened a few times.

Maybe changing the cable would fix it.

So I got my keyboard mouse, and now you

can play— you get like a PC experience

with the Switch 2, which is actually kind

of cool.

So obviously with things like aiming down

your gun,

um,

I don't know if I change the settings to

performance mode, maybe we'll get smoother

gameplay.

Yeah, it feels a bit better now.

So now you've got this, um, keyboard and

mouse experience but still no sound.

And you know, you think, oh, this is kind

of cool, you get a desktop kind of gaming

experience with a Switch if you just plug

in a mouse, keyboard, and a monitor.

And I guess you could say, you could make

that case, but then you kind of wonder why

would you do that if you've already got a

gaming computer.

And I'm pretty sure most people— I mean,

unless you don't have a gaming computer,

and I agree gaming computers are quite

expensive, they can be £1,000 for it.

Oh my God, look at this!

Jesus, the policeman just— woman or

whatever— so it's stuck inside of the car.

Look at this, that is kind of horrific.

And also hilarious, look at his body.

His body's just stuck in the car.

Don't know if I help him out a bit.

There you go.

And his arm has come off.

Lovely.

So anyway, what I was saying is that, um,

yeah, you get this kind of gimped PC

gaming desktop experience with the Switch,

but there's so many problems.

Like, there's no, there's no ultrawide

support, but on the PC version there is.

There's no sound because I don't have an

external speaker.

Usually I play the sound through the

laptop speakers when I play my gaming

laptop.

So there's like a few things that kind of

ruin this experience for me personally.

Yeah, I have to say it looks, it looks a

lot better when you play it on standard

aspect ratio when it's not stre— yeah, I

mean, it does look really good.

I'm not saying it looks bad or anything,

I'm just saying what is the point?

Because I've already got this game on my

gaming laptop And my gaming laptop can do

all these things that I'm struggling with

on the Switch.

For example, the gaming laptop has

ultrawide support, the gaming laptop has

sound coming out of the speakers,

um,

also the gaming laptop has the benefit of

playing every game that's on Steam without

any problems, whereas the Switch only has

a handful of PC games available for it.

So then I'm thinking, you know, it's kind

of confusing because first I thought, hey,

this is really cool, I really like this,

And then I realized, wait, I can do all

this already with my gaming laptop.

The only benefit the Switch would have is

that you can play it as a handheld device,

which you can't— I mean, you could do that

on the laptop.

You could use the laptop as a handheld

device.

It wouldn't be comfortable.

And then the portability thing is, yeah,

okay, Switch is more portable, but it's

not like the gaming laptop is not

portable.

I mean, look at this thing.

This thing is pretty portable.

You could slot this into a backpack

without any problems.

Look, you could take that on holiday with

you and have— well, I mean, number one,

you got a bigger screen.

Look at the size of this screen.

That, that screen is way bigger than the

Switch's screen.

So you got a bigger screen, you can plug

in a controller, and you can also do work

on it.

So it just makes me wonder, like, what is

the point of the Switch 2?

Now, the only thing I found about the

Switch 2 which would make it make sense is

if you play games like Mario Kart or Zelda

and you want to play that on the big

screen, because obviously you can only

play those games on a Switch.

So I tried playing some Mario Kart and

yeah, it was quite fun.

I do quite like Mario Kart,

and I guess that's going to be your only

option if that's what you're into.

Um, but yeah, it just made me think, uh,

Switch 2 or my gaming laptop?

I would probably go with the gaming laptop

every time.

Basically because there's all my games on

Steam which I would rather play than

whatever's on the Switch store.

I mean, it's impressive this can even play

Cyberpunk 2077.

It is impressive, but let's face it,

gaming laptops can do this already.

This guy, he's, he's stuck under the

trolley.

Look at this guy.

Oh my God, sometimes this game is pretty

funny.

It really sucks not having sound though.

So the only reason I would say that the

Switch 2 is better than the gaming laptop

in any way is if you want to play

Nintendo-only games like Mario Kart or

Zelda, your only option is gonna be the

Switch 2, obviously.

And yeah, I have to admit, this is pretty

fun on the big screen.

And even an old game like Mario Kart 8 is—

it still looks pretty good and it's still

really fun.

So apart from that, I just, I don't see

the point of the Switch 2 really when

you've got a gaming laptop.

Portability— a gaming laptop is portable.

When it comes to

adaptability, a laptop's probably better

because you'll be able to have more

options.

And it's going to have ultrawide support

and stuff like that.

I don't know if Nintendo are going to

bring ultrawide support to any of its

games.

I guess they don't really think that

people are going to play on an ultrawide

monitor.

They kind of expect people are going to

dock the Switch into a TV, which kind of

makes sense I guess, but they also, they

also should factor in the fact that people

like me have an ultrawide monitor and

would like to use our nice ultrawide

monitors to play games on it.

But yeah, you know, the only time I think

you would favor the Switch is also if you

want to play handheld, like sitting on the

sofa or in bed.

You can't really do that with a gaming

laptop.

Well, I mean, you could because you could

put the laptop on your lap and then use a

controller, couldn't you?

So I don't really feel like the Switch 2

has many things that it does better than a

gaming laptop.

So what my point is, if you've got a

gaming laptop Unless you really want to

play Mario Kart and Zelda, I don't really

think I could recommend it to you

because I don't really know what to do now

because

I'm quite enjoying this docked experience,

but then I keep thinking, wait, my laptop

can also do this, and I've got an Xbox

controller, and I've got, I've got better

games on my laptop than I have on my Steam

Deck— I mean, on my Switch.

And also there's just not a huge amount of

games to choose from on the Switch unless

you want to play old Switch games,

which you could do.

Oh wow, I finished first place.

Are these all bots or something?

What?

How am I first?

I wasn't even trying.

I'm talking the whole time.

Okay, whatever.

Yeah, I came first.

I beat everyone and I wasn't even trying.

What a bunch of noobs.

Half the team's Japanese as usual.

So you're going to play like

Zelda.

Have a look at Zelda.

So here we have Zelda Tears of the Kingdom

and I don't have the upgrade pack, so I

don't have the 60 FPS and increased

textures.

But still the game runs really well,

really smoothly and nicely.

And even though

they look kind of stretched because I'm

using the ultra-wide full screen, it does—

I mean, it still looks pretty good.

You wouldn't even notice it's kind of

stretched unless you already noticed it.

Okay, now I've set it back to standard,

and yeah, you notice everyone's really

skinny again.

It's kind of funny.

So yeah, this is a pretty enjoyable gaming

experience if you had some sound as well.

All you need is sound and then just ignore

those black bars at the side.

And if you really, really want to play

Zelda and Pokémon, Mario and all that,

then I guess you don't have a choice but

you need to get a Switch.

But if you're like me, you don't really

care that much about Nintendo games, you'd

probably be better off with a gaming

laptop.

And if you've already got a gaming laptop,

I don't really see why you want to get a

Switch too.

Because yeah, you can play this docked

mode and get a kind of PC experience with

a keyboard and mouse, but it's not going

to be as good or better than a gaming

laptop, is it?

In the end, what is the point?