Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Finally managed to get onto the My Nintendo Store and the XC3 Special Edition was completely gone.

I finished setting up my OLED and OMG IT'S THE PRETTIEST SCREEN I'VE EVER LOOKED AT.

Right now I'm still in the downloading stuff phase and I can't wait to play Xenoblade Chronicles 3 with the upgrade.

Yes... you really don't understand until you use one for yourself. This is why so many are concerned Nintendo may revert to LCD for Switch 2. It's hard to go back.

@JaxonH

I have a question about the OLED on the home screen is it supposed to look slightly green-sh.

@Kermit1
Nope. Mine doesn't. Though I have heard some ppl see a greenish tint on low brightness. I still don't regardless of brightness, but I'd disable auto brightness and turn it up to near max. Besides which, you don't really get much battery savings on low brightness with OLED because it's already so efficient.

Doesn't the Switch OLED have this screen flicker if you lower the brightness? I remember hearing about it last year and if I were to upgrade to the OLED, I'm afraid that it might be distracting for me. I like having a low brightness setting on all my devices, so I can save some battery life.

@MarioLover92
It was a lot of hoopla over nothing. 99% of ppl can't notice. It's something ppl read and it sounds bad but in real life you have to have some special sensitivity to notice it.

Furthermore, OLED is not like LCD. Battery savings from low brightness are worthless. You might squeeze an extra 10 minutes going from max brightness to min brightness, on a 5 hr battery life. So, 5 hrs 10 minutes instead of 5 hrs, at the cost of an extremely dim screen.

With LCD the battery savings are significant. But because OLED is so much more efficient due to pixels turning on and off, the savings are negligible. Best to crank that sucker to max brightness, no auto-brightness, and enjoy it to the fullest. You'll still get 5+ hour battery life, even as much as cracking 10 hrs in Final Fantasy IX.

@JaxonH Ohhh, OK. So it's nowhere near as bad, that's good to know. Also good to know that OLED is more efficient than LCD. I've been thinking of getting the Switch OLED, I did hear great things about the screen besides that one concern I had, plus the extra internal storage is a nice bonus too. Though, I did have someone suggest I should wait until the next Switch model is announced. Maybe a version that has 128 GB, or something like that... though that might be more pricey so I'm not sure if Nintendo would want to make that. Thanks for the reply!

@MarioLover92
There's always a new model around the corner. Which is why I never wait and always buy day one. Otherwise it's a perpetual "but the next one might release soon" cycle of never upgrading.

I actually think there's a reasonable chance we could see Switch 2 release alongside Zelda next May. And the reason I think that is, well for one, Switch will be in its 7th year by that point, and a new model has to come at some point. But for two, their next model will surely want to replicate the strategy that worked for Switch, which is launching with a must have game. It can be cross gen, but it still needs a top tier, 10/10, "everyone's gotta play" launch title. And while Metroid Prime 4 could certainly be that for the select Nintendo enthusiasts, it's too much of a risk for the broader gamership. Only Mario and Zelda will draw the critical praise they'll want to push their next system. And with new Zelda games only releasing every 5-6 yrs, this is their one shot to capitalize. Otherwise it'll be near 2030 before the next one is ready to go.

Granted, they could launch in 2024 or early 2025 and go with a new mainline 3D Mario instead. That's always a possibility. But I think there's at least a 50/50 chance we see Switch 2 launch with Zelda. Possibly a March reveal with a 60 day lead up.

If not though, we'll at least get a new revision next year. They released Switch in 2017. Two yrs later in 2019 we got Switch Lite. Two yrs later in 2021 we got Switch OLED. Two yrs later in 2023 we'll likely get another revision. Be it a Lite OLED, Switch Pro, or Switch 2. One way or another we're getting something next year.

But I doubt it's a Switch Pro. I could be wrong, but I think it's too late for that, and any jump we see will be to the next generation. So my bet is on a Lite OLED, if its not a Switch 2. But... time will tell.

On the left-side of my OLED on low-ish brightness it's a slight green tint. I did some Googling and turns out it's a defect.

On the one hand this shouldn't bother me and all I need to do is turn up the brightness.

On the other hand I'm getting sick of Nintendo and they're recent lack of quality even though this is probably just a "normal problem".

On my foot I've had a busy day I woke up late and messed up my day, I found out I was getting my OLED early and then the rest of my day was me transferring everything from my OG Switch to my OLED to then set it all up with games and to see there's a green tint and I have a headache. This could just be me complaining about nothing but these little things bother me.

I'm legit tempted to return it because looking more into it seems it gets slightly worse over time.

To say I'm a little angry is not a lie.

@Eagly I'll be doing that tomorrow. Maybe.

As it turns out every Switch OLED has this problem to a certain point, some are worse than others.

The only fix is to keep the brightness up to at least past half way.

@Eagly Looks like this might be the decade of Xbox. Gosh that sounds weird but cool at the same time.

My PSVita has those weird spots all over the screen too. I used to think it was the screen protector, but they remained after I replaced it years later. Too bad.

I can't sleep, I know this is only a small thing but for what you pay (I payed with tax and warranty added around $600) I'd expect better quality.

@Eagly @Kermit1 Xbox is no different, I got the limited edition Halo Infinite Series X at launch (preordering that turned out to be easier than buying the normal Series X at the time) and the controller has the "A" button unresponsive at times as well as ended up with stick drift within a few weeks of getting it.

I didn't return it given that would've been a gigantic mess to do so (I had heard some returns got replaced by a different console because of the lack of supply) but rather continued to use my old controller I used for my XB1 instead.

Are you sure about this? Mine doesn't seem to have it.

But yeah, I'd recommend going for the refund. Hopefully you were just unlucky in this instance and end up with a better quality screen soon enough.

It only shows up on ultra low brightness with a grey background. Without that very specific combination it'll never show.

Imo, it wouldn't bother me. I use white theme, and never have brightness less less than 3 clicks under max.

OLED pixels turn on and off individually, and lose accuracy as you approach off. So it makes sense some grey uniformity issues may appear when extremely dim. With negligible battery savings, there's no reason to keep screen that dim anyways.

My recommendation would be change theme to white, where even on low brightness it's fine, but also just keep brightness up, since there's no real advantage to lower brightness on Switch OLED.

Also depends how bad it is. Every OLED will have slight grey uniformity issues approaching pixels off, but if it's something where you have to scour to see it... eh. On the other hand, if it's like the northern lights, ok maybe I'd return.

I set my brightness as low it would go and didn't see any green tint. Always have the dark background on by default, because otherwise the home screen is like staring into the sun on higher levels of brightness.

Seems like I won the lottery in this regard.