Random: That Guy Playing The Switch OLED In His Hallway Is Driving Social Media Bonkers

This is probably even more unrealistic of a scenario than that whole cookout scene from the original Switch reveal trailer lol

Man didn't even like go up to his room or to where his Switch dock is in his entertainment center. He just came home without saying hi to his wife and started playing Pokemon Diamond lol

Although tbf if the game was SMT V I'd be doing the same thing

Well people tell me all the time they play undocked in the house even when TVs are available. This is basically what I picture because any area is absurd to me if there is a free tv.

I mean come on, Who stand there, hurting there back, playing some pokemon in the hallway?

It bothered me more that he kept his shoes on.

@Synecdoche don’t all Americans.

Maybe I'm getting old. Any time I've tried to use my Switch in handheld I end up injuring my back, my neck, and can no longer feel my hands. They keep making those damn fonts smaller as well.

Wow, people are completely missing the obvious here.

See the door under the stairs slightly open? That's where this guy's abusive 60 year old parents force him to live when he's not attending wizard school, and because it's open he knows someone is already in there. So what else is he going to do but get some Switch time in?

Really, it's pretty obvious when you think about it.

@sixrings Not me!

@Synecdoche as an American myself as well... I don't keep my shoes on in the house/apartment/whatever either. If I live there I ain't wearing my shoes all day. I'll only wear them if I need to (like if I need to mop the floor, then sure to make sure I don't slip I might put on some clean shoes, but other than that... I never wear shoes in the house. The closest I get is slippers, and that is very rare as well.)

If you squint into the corner of that photo, you can actually see Sterling diving.

Nintendo's always trying to innovate. The hallway has long been a useless room, used merely for the passage from one useful room to another. Now, with the power of the Switch OLED, it's time to make some USE of that space. #GamesInHallways4Ever

This man OBVIOUSLY cares about correct posture

Man I swear Ninty comes up with memes that make the internet go nuts

I like the ad as a whole. But I thought it was silly and ridiculous too. However, having it pointed out from the POV of a husband and/or dad trying to sneak in some gaming before being asked to switch the laundry or grab the umpteenth snack, I kinda get it and can relate 😂

Basically, we see someone so captivated by the game, he can't even wait to reach [insert appropriate room]. Silly, but purposefully so. Way to mock Nintendo "introducing LAN ports in 2021" when we seem to be discovering hyperboles for the first time this same year.

I think this was Nintendo’s slick way of implying that they know a lot of people sit on the toilet when playing. I’m mean, look at his posture! It looks like he’s squeezing one out and happily doing so.

@Synecdoche Seriously. The wooden bench I laughed at. But who doesn't kick off the shoes when they get home to game.

@Natsura @Synecdoche good work. I never understood bringing the dirt inside.

Sometimes when you're a parent, 5 minutes of hallway or stairway gaming is all you get in a week. Someone there knows how perfect the Switch is for a gaming parent.

@Gerald
No spamming, please.

@sixrings
I mean why not ?
Playing in handheld mode on anywhere is not something wrong, even there is a TV over there.

Not the man's fault he can't play on the toilet right now, his wife probably taking forever in the bathroom so he has no choice but to play in the hallway😔

This is a man who has kids. And just knows the second he walks through that hall he'll have to handover the switch lol

@Anti-Matter no it’s not wrong. But then that would also make the hallway ad ok too

Well, it means a dude can play his Nintendo Switch wherever the hell he likes. Also, since when anybody has anything to do with where he plays his games? He can play videogames naked on the attic floor for all I care.

@sixrings That's the funniest generalization I've ever seen lmao. Nobody I know wears shoes inside!

@scannerdarkly7 True, the only way it is remotely comfortable is to lean all the way back on the couch and rest my head on the back of it. My neck and upper back are a wasteland so looking down for any amount of time is torture.

When I get home from work the first thing I do is remove everything from my pockets and sit down on an ottoman directly next to the door to take off my boots. It’s another 5-10 minutes before I can manage to stand again.

The ottoman is right next to the tv stand, opposite end from where the switch is docked. I may move the switch to the other end to be like this guy. His posture is spectacular.

They can't really show the guy on the toilet as an ad anymore though, it would be hilarious!

The only place in hos home with reliable wifi connection?

I grew up on handhelds and that mindset continues to this day. Most my play is in handheld, even in the apartment.

@dont_simp_for_them as a Canadian with a couple roommates from Indiana I thought it was super strange when they wore shoes inside. Then I took visits down to Indiana to watch some basketball games and that’s what people down there were doing. Indiana isn’t representative of all America but then I started to think of American tv. Everyone wears there shoes inside. Well everyone but mr Rogers. We should all be more like mr Rogers.

Choctopus in his reaction video was the best, with “shut up Tyler I’m about to catch a buizel” made me laugh. This trailer was just so weird on top of the people pretending to play the game trailers, and the guy watching the dread trailer sighed when Samus died, acting like he died?

Presumably this takes place in the alternate reality where young men huddle around 7 inch screens to play NBA2K with sideways joycons and Karen's Switch is still the highlight of local rooftop parties.

@Pak-Man I mean, Nintendo IS the company that managed to mass-produce, market, and sell cardboard to people. Might as well convince everyone that playing in the hallway is the new "straight-edge" or something.

My little brother has taken a liking to our carpeted stairs as his destination of choice with portable electronics lately. I feel for this man.

Uh why is this a thing? Someone is playing Nintendo switch , weather it's in a hallway, entryway, on a plane or on a train, so what ! Get over it 🙄.... Let's focus on something a bit more relevant, not where someone decides to plant his or her ass to play a game!

@sixrings I would imagine for some, it would depend on a number of factors. Cultural, and/or what part of the country you live in or what you live in. Just speaking from my personal experience growing up in the city and in an apartment building my entire childhood, you didn't really have the space or area to properly take your shoes off. At least not in the apartment building I lived in. I mean, I guess we could have taken them off at the door and carried them to our rooms. To be honest, I really don't know. It wasn't really something we all thought about. Everyone was just kind of in and out at all times and

Now, having my own house and married to someone who did grow up with that as a part of their routine, I think differently about that now. Especially with two kids who love to play in all kinds of crud.

Though there are moments where we do break those rules. If we're having a party, I'm okay with everyone keeping their shoes on. I'm gonna be cleaning up later anyways and I'd rather clean up dirt than run the risk of someone's feet smelling like corn chips. But also, it easier to have the kids wear shoes when we are getting ready to go out ahead of time than run the risk of wasting 10 minutes at the garage door to out on shoes, with the possibility of an impromptu WWE match breaking out.

I realize I just got way too deep about the topic, lol. I also realize we're probably really talking about wearing shoes just moseying on about the house all day.

@Cshane80 I agree with your comment. This is just stupid. You can play Switch wherever you want. The day the Switch OLED arrives at my house, I will place a chair next to my front door, sit down on it and play on my new Switch.

Because, I can.

Tbh I haven't even thought about it for a second, when I watched this trailer, like this seemed pretty normal to me.

@sixrings that’s a urban legend I guess. But my experience here in Europe does proof shoes are no issue in the house.

I actually get looked at when I nicely ask to have visitors take their shoes off when entering.

But back to the topic? Why is this so odd. I guess nobody has seen the kids play their games on their mobile phones?

Looks like a lot of people equate Switch to playing Pokémon. No other game is mentioned not even Mario.

Everyone had missed the obvious... He's waiting to take his after work dump in the bathroom that is the closed door next to where he's sitting which is obviously currently occupied.

Makes everything make sense including the weird way he is sitting, which is a rigid posture with the goal of aiding his requirement to hold it against heavy pressure (we've all been there), and he's playing switch to take his mind off the freight train trying to escape that is last night's Chipotle burrito.

2/2 for Nintendo's portrayal of a real situation.

@FatWormBlowsASparky I actually would charge money if someone would make me play anything Pokemon related.

Pokemon is among the worst thing from Nintendo ever.

You know what? People have too much free time.

@Anti-Matter sorry, had a few....

first world problems geez ...at least you know how stupid today's YouTube/Twitter/Instagram youth is

@Ventilator
Well, you can’t like everything, I guess. I wouldn’t watch football if you paid me for instance.

I would probably do that if I was a kid and my parents used a very long time to get ready for the car ride

I'm so tired of Nintendo's Switch commercials featuring so many damn people. I don't want to see the people who are playing the damn machine. Instead, show me the ***** games, gotdammit.

@Gerald,

I told you not to Drunk post or dial.

The most unrealistic thing about Nintendo's commercials is how everyone playing it looks like a model. Needs more pasty unkempt nerds surrounded by mess and socially awkward folk.

Whats more weird is the way the switch materializes out of no where into his hand.
To be honest the weirdest place i played my Switch was after I had my two Covid jabs, the whole siting around for 15 mins afterwards

Dad with two gamer kids here - never underestimate the discomfort you're willing to put up with just to snatch some game time for yourself.

Always docked, always in the hallway

@nessisonett If you squint real real hard you might see Andrew Robertson sitting watching it in the living room.

I did this some times because it's the only way I could get a good WiFi signal on the switch.

But now is made a Mesh network and the WiFi pound is next to my switch.

Maybe it's a way that Nintendo shows us the WiFi in the new version is just as terrible as the old version.

Maybe he‘s waiting for someone to arrive in a couple of minutes? No one pointed that out yet. Pretty sure I sat on the stairs next to our entrance browsing the web with my phone when awaiting someone.

@johnvboy I know, shocking behaviour 😜

It was only a line from ‘World in Motion’
Could have been worse, could have been ‘Vindaloo’

Realistically, none of the people in the commercial would be playing Switch

Actually I have played many times in places like this as I was waiting for someone to be ready to leave house or something similar (like on bus stop, or by the entrance to a restaurant/cinema, etc.)

@sixrings Didn't Mr Rogers switch to shoes for inside his house?

@KillerBOB why's that?

@Lanmanna

They all looked like normal people

I dunno.. handy shelf for storage right next to a makeshift seat.
He's even got an umbrella there in case it's raining on his island.
Ideal.

@KillerBOB more like they fall under the reality show templates of "normal" people. only one that really stands out is the guy whose hair style makes his whole head look like a pineapple...

Personally, I play while going home and then I continue even when I am home, so I could do something like that, but I don't have a bench in my hallway.

Switch I’Loled edition.

While playing online with friends, you don't want to be disturbed with 'How was your day?', 'Can you take the garbage out?'. 'You never guess what happened to me at the nail salon!'.
Best place to play within wifi reach? Exactly. The hall bench.

This is just a director and/or cinematographer shooting for depth.

The comments on fathers playing in the hallway to avoid being given chores or the only place where they will be left alone… actually really relatable.

However the comment he would actually be playing on the toilet really hit the nail on the head

Realistically for me handheld mode is me laying on couch or bed with or without a TV on in the background. None of this bbq , swimming pool or on top of apartment building stuff

As a dad, I find this completely realistic actually. Not necessarily good to waste no time on starting to play the moment one is alone, but very realistic. It's the internet which is unrealistic.

I do this all the time while I'm waiting for my wife to get ready so we can leave. That's why his shoes are on, and why he's in the hall ready to duck out the door at a moment's notice. That's why the bench is there - for putting shoes on and waiting. Why not use the TV? Because I already have my shoes on and because I set the TV to the channel for the dog so she doesn't feel alone while we're gone. There's no time to lose once she's ready because we're already late.

^Not even a joke, this literally happens. Reality is unrealistic.

To be fair I used to play my DS while lying on the stairs for some reason when I was little.

This is just another reminder to is that Nintendo will never make a Switch trailer/commercial as great, relatable, and fun as the iconic 2016 first look.

Honestly I wouldn’t play on in the hallways but I used to just lay on the floor in a room and play my ds.

To be honest, I was so caught up in the fact that there was a new Switch model out that I didn't even notice 😂

@FatWormBlowsASparky I don't watch football either.

For me, the most bizarre part of that trailer was the dude playing Metroid Dread. I know the game isn't out yet, but I'm pretty sure anyone who plays the game isn't going to be that relaxed when an E.M.M.I. unit is that close behind them, and his reaction to being caught is WAY too composed by average gamer standards. I want to know what he is smoking and if he's sharing.

"A bench in the hallway". Seems a weird place to put a seat. You'd eventually use it to put your bags or shoes on if there was no other alternatives anywhete there.

Anyway, OLED Switch anywhere, even in the most unlikeliest of places.

@Chamver
Don't be selfish.
Showing peoples playing Nintendo Switch with some games footage and got excited from commercial was a part of Nintendo's business. Every video games company should show commercial about their product with peoples playing the machines to sell the product.
And mentioning Nintendo Switch machine as a damn machine, that was not a nice thing to say.

@Anti-Matter To be fair, these people are not even playing the game. They're just acting, and the gameplay is edited in afterwards (otherwise we could barely see anything because of reflections etc). That's a pretty standard thing to do as far as I know.

But fair point, some people may want to see the experience, while others want to see gameplay itself.

@Scrubicius Which European country is that?

To be honest, if I was in the bus playing Pokémon and had to hop off to walk into my house while i was in the middle of being super hooked on the new game(s), then I'd probably do the same thing that this guy did. And I have done the same thing that this guy did when my family hogs the living room and and I'm sharing the room upstairs with a sleeping relative and I have no headphones on me and my grandmother or mother are in the kitchen cooking and watching TV and someone else is using the bathroom, this be the next best place since the other free locations are the bug infested outside or the super hot no AC garage. I really don't get why people are finding this man so strange for sitting there to play...

@Sinton Italy, Austria, Germany and Netherlands. 🤷‍♂️

Hey, I've done it before.

I take my Lite to work every day. Sometimes I'm so into it I bust the Switch out in the car in the driveway when I get home and finish up whatever I was doing before going inside.

When ya gotta play, ya gotta play.

It's amazing how people on the internet waste so much time arguing about the most trivial of things

@Scrubicius Strange. Perhaps the American states where people keep their shoes on, are those with ancestors from those countries?

I can only speak for my own country, but here in Norway even door salesmen and handymen take off their shoes when entering a house.

Far better then sitting on the pot and playing. How would that go over with FCC regulations. Shoes or not most people entry way are still were one still has their shoes on.

I normally play in bed or on the sofa. I like being comfy when I'm gaming.

To be honest, I’ve played Switch in almost this exact same setting. But it wasn’t right after getting home, it was while I was waiting for my wife to get ready so we could leave and it was taking forever and I was too lazy to go elsewhere in the house.

This. THIS is what has the Internet upset. Of all the things.

@Sinton my co-worker from Norway Trondheim or is it Troundheim, not sure?
He is cool with keeping his shoes on but he won’t play in his hallway… but I think the reason is cause he only has a doorway in his apartment. 😂

@Scrubicius 😂 Be sure to ask him if he'll wear shoes indoors next time he's in Trondheim.

Too me it's just another overrated commercial showing what you can do but most likely never do because for starters why would anyone bring a Switch outside which is a $350 console that has a fan cooling system then lay it on top of a piece of cloth blocking the in air ventilation that located on the back as well you have to max out the screen brightness just to make it seeable during day light which will drain the battery even faster.

Sure complain about a guy sitting in a hallway but not mention that taking it outside and giving kids the idea to break their $300+ console on day one because some idiot made a misleading commercial.🤦

@Drommajin is it weird that I'd find that more normal than playing in the hall?

@Xv_Scrub_vX Playing naked in the attic? Maybe but it's just your thing!

That isn't what bothered me about the reveal. What bothered me the most was that every single "player" had a game running yet their fingers were not moving. At least make them look as if they're playing the thing.

LOL, that's me in the hallway. Except laying on that carpet runner (no shoes on, of course) with one leg up on the bench.

Inevitably, my wife walks over me and asks, "What the heck are doing?".

@timp29 lol, it looks like that's what they were going for without actually showing it. Notice the mat thingy next to him is obscured and kinda looks like a toilet seat.

And look at the houses they show in the trailer. Only people that make high six-figures buy Switch OLED, apparently.

Actually....at $349 for a 2017 console with a new screen, they may just be accurately representing their market, after all...

If I had a wooden bench in my hallway, why wouldn't I use it?

Well, his life is now a humiliation. Congrats Nintendo!! You ruined a man's life!!!

At least we finally got to meet Karen's husband!

Maybe he just walked in and his old lady is in the sh☆☆☆er so he's waiting to play it from the bathroom? His scenario is actually 100% believable for me. I've done s♧♡t like that before, I honestly play my Switch in the most absurd places. I bust that s◇♤t out at the bars too, no joke. #hellanerdy #stillthecoolestpersonatthebar

@Manah Right!? Especially to get down on a game! "Um don't sit there, that's my Nintendo bench." "Hey can you grab your coat and purse? I gotta play a round of Mario Golf real quick." **At the furniture store** "Excuse me can you point me in the direction of your front door Nintendo benches please?" **Waiting for your roommate that takes gd forever to get ready when you're going out and you're already ready to dip out** "Holy tap dancing carrots! Hurry up!" .....That's all I got.

I sit on the floor with my back on the couch footrest to play my switch, so who am I to judge?

@KillerBOB Lol. What? Normal people don't play the Switch? Only weirdos?
@Shadowmoon522

Hallways are fine. But no guy that looks like that plays Pokémon.

@Lanmanna theres a reason why i put normal in "".
there really no such thing as a normal human to begin with, this entire species is one big abnormality

@sixrings nope, shoes are the first thing to go off when i get home. It's just more comfortable.

Honestly glad Nintendo is using a wider demographic in their Switch ads with more adults, vs almost exclusively young kids sometimes with their parents before.

The more age group NIN Switch can grab the better long-term for their gave development.

"My wife says I have to keep the Nintendo out of the bedroom and the living room and the kitchen."

You mean the ex wife?

Sometimes ya need to shake things up...

His wife/girlfriend is probably in the living room with serious PMT! Towel wrapped round her seething head and right in the mood for an argument!

He should have just headed straight for the garden shed instead.

That ain't that unrealistic. I did somehing like sitting on the bench in the entrance often after car trips if I wanted to finish a level on my DS. Granted, I was 8 at the time.

Well, I didn’t exactly go bonkers over it. But now that I’m reminded, I did actually rewind this scene a couple times just to try to make sense of what was happening.

He could be at a tough part in the game and needed to sit down so he could concentrate, or perhaps he's playing in the hallway so he can show off his awesome Switch when someone walks by. The possibilities are endless.