3 reasons NOT to buy the Switch 2!

Hello, welcome back to another video.

In today's video, we're going to be

exploring 10 reasons not to buy the

Nintendo Switch 2, the latest handheld

gaming console from Nintendo and also the

latest handheld gaming console in general.

So at a price point of $450 or £395,

it is a fairly considerably expensive

device, not exactly a budget device of

£200 or £300.

It is

is at the upper end but not at the super

upper end of extreme gaming consoles that

are handheld.

We have much more expensive consoles like

ROG Ally X, which is almost $1,000 I

believe, and also the AYANEOs are pretty

powerful devices.

So it's definitely not as expensive as

those devices, but it is pretty expensive

for a Nintendo device because the original

Switch only came out at around a couple

hundred pounds or a couple $100.

So it is quite a big upgrade, you've got

big screens, very nice and everything.

But however, um, it is not OLED, so the

screen looks okay in dimly lit conditions,

but when you go somewhere brighter like

into my conservatory, the screen isn't as

vivid and easy to view as you would like

or think.

As you can see, the glare is pretty bad,

lots of glare.

Which is unfortunate because I do like to

sit on my beanbag and do some gaming like

this.

But unfortunately, screen is a little bit

lackluster compared to an OLED screen.

So the Switch OLED obviously had an OLED

screen, and also the Steam Deck OLED has

an OLED screen, and those screens just

obviously objectively and subjectively

look much better than this screen.

This screen is okay, don't get me wrong,

it's just it's not as not as vivid as a

true OLED screen.

So it's a bit unfortunate that they

cheaped out on the screen.

You really need to be in a dark area, like

an indoors area, to be able to get the

best experience out of this screen.

So that is a little bit unfortunate

compared to Steam Deck OLED, which

arguably is about the same price as this,

but it has an OLED screen, it has more

internal storage of 1TB, whereas this only

has 256GB.

Which, don't get me wrong, I was quite

surprised that they even put 256GB in it

because in the original Switch I only had

about 32GB storage and you had to get an

SD card.

I've got all these games downloaded and

there's plenty of room on the device left

over, so I don't even feel like I need to

get expansion storage.

So Steam Deck OLED has OLED screen, it's

got more storage, it's got better controls

because these Joy-Cons are very slim, not

much to grip onto, so it's got better

controls.

And it's got more games because you get

SteamOS and you get Steam games on it.

So you can play GTA 5 on it, which you

can't play on this for some reason.

I don't know why they bring— don't— why

don't they bring GTA 5 onto Switch?

I don't get it.

They've got all the old ones like San

Andreas and Liberty City or whatever, but

they don't bring out the latest one, which

is over 10 years old now.

It'll easily be able to run on Switch too.

I mean, if they can get Cyberpunk 2077 to

run on it, why can't they get GTA 5 to run

on it, it would be so easy.

My second problem is with the battery.

So as you can see, the battery life is

indicated there, and yes, the battery does

go down pretty quickly.

So I charged this to fully 100% last

night, and it's just been on sleep mode

overnight.

And yeah, it's had Mario Kart running in

the background, but I don't think it's

actually running, it's just in sleep mode.

And we have lost

21% battery overnight

even though I haven't even been using it.

And then when I do my gaming session, I

play some Mario Kart World and I play

until the battery dies basically.

So playing from 100% until the battery

dies, you can play Mario Kart World for

maybe 2 and a half hours, which to be

honest is not great.

You would think a gaming device which is

about portability and not being plugged in

all the time being able to play whenever

you want, wherever you want, would be able

to provide you with a better battery life

than a measly couple of hours.

A couple of hours is really what I expect

from something like a Steam Deck or an ROG

Ally, which has more power.

This has a lot of power too, but I

wouldn't really expect it to be using all

that power, because to be honest, the

graphics in Mario Kart World don't really

look that different to Mario Kart 8, and

for some reason I could play Mario Kart 8

for at least a couple more hours and I can

play Mario Kart World on Switch 2.

So it would be an interesting comparison

to run the battery from 100% down to 0

playing Mario Kart World and Mario Kart 8

Deluxe and see which one you can get more

gameplay out of.

Also, I don't really notice a massive

difference in graphics going from Mario

Kart World to 8 Deluxe, so I'll show you a

quick comparison.

Okay, so here's Mario Kart World.

As you can see, we're loading into a race,

and you see the graphics are pretty nice,

aren't they?

Quite nice graphics, very clear, very not

jagged, very nice.

Basically looks really nice.

Look at that.

So we do some driving.

That's Mario Kart World.

Now we're going to switch to Mario Kart 8

Deluxe.

And here we have Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.

Now I don't know if you can tell, but I

can barely tell any difference, to be

honest.

Like, it looks, it looks almost the same

as Mario Kart World.

I'm only playing one-handed, by the way,

so I mean, I can't steer, but it seems to

be automatically steering for me.

So I mean, I couldn't tell the difference,

to be honest.

It looks just like Mario Kart World.

But there's more tracks on Mario Kart 8.

So I thought the graphics would like blow

me away on Mario Kart World, but they— I

mean, they look good, don't get me wrong,

but there's absolutely nothing wrong with

the graphics on Mario Kart 8.

Okay, maybe it's not as smooth and like

the textures are a little bit more jagged

if you look really closely, but who really

cares?

Maybe it doesn't quite pop like the

lighting doesn't quite pop as much as

Mario Kart World.

But the main thing about Mario Kart World

is you've got the new modes like Knockout

Mode, World, Open World, which is— I mean,

Knockout Mode is probably my favorite

mode.

This game has more of a flat look to it.

It's like less of a 3D pop-out effect.

Yeah, you can see like the coins, there's

a bit of jaggedness to the coins.

They're not super round.

And like on those red arrows, they look

kind of a little bit jagged,

but the games are really not that

different to each other.

So the complaint is I don't understand why

the brand new Mario Kart world is so

expensive when it doesn't really look that

much better than the old one.

And also the old Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has,

um, I think nearly 100 tracks And there's

tracks on this that I like, like this

one's pretty nice.

And there's— I haven't really seen a lot

of variation in the tracks on Mario Kart

World.

I do Knockout Mode and it always just

seems like playing the same few tracks,

like 5 tracks, and I get kind of— I get

bored, like fatigued from seeing the same

tracks over and over again.

Doesn't seem like there's a huge amount of

variety.

One good thing is though, the games do

seem to download pretty quickly because I

guess they're not very big games.

Like I downloaded Super Smash Bros.

in Under an hour, I think maybe half an

hour.

I don't have super fast internet, so that

kind of explains it.

Oh, that's the cat.

Meow meow.

Meow meow.

I wonder if he's gonna come over.

I think he's gonna come over.

He always comes over when he sees me.

Meow meow.

Meow meow.

Oh, hello.

Do you like the Switch too?

Whoa, didn't mean to make you jump.

Meow meow.

Why is he kind of wet?

Good cat, good cat.

Maybe he wants to go back out.

Okay, see ya.

He just came to say hello, I guess.

Oh, he's coming back.

No.