Video: YouTuber's Switch OLED Screen Still Standing After 7,000 Hours

Still... I'm not trying this with my Switch OLED!

The OLED switch is grand to play with those vibrant colours and deep blacks, it just makes the games look so much more gorgeous

Well that's a complete waste of enengy.

I just upgraded to OLED and loving Zelda BOTW on it, feels so immersive! Gonna mod my original for fun

Burn-in are not issue you could simply create after launch, it's an issue that overtime will happen as the hardware or screen age as it got more usage. It won't happen now but that doesn't mean it wouldn't happen someday.

I could leave my switch on for 7000 hours overnight by mistake so easily. I'm still very worried.(😁😉)

This makes my 2,000 hours on Animal Crossing look like nothing

@WallyWest I disagree, testing the durability of a product is not a waste. If anything, it can be real helpful on a large scale. If the screened burned in after a week. People would need to be buying switches every week. That would be much more harmful, especially on a large scale. Thats obviously an exaggeration, but test from a third party is usually much more credible and can help people make decisions on many things.

@WallyWest
There are many worse things out there that waste energy. The Switch doesn't use that much.

I hate playing picross on my OLED for this reason but at the same time, I play other things so I shouldn't be too concerned

@Pichuka97 its not picross on the picture is his game library

@Serpenterror
Which is why they tested it for 7000 hours and continue.
That is already pretty old, especially for a problem like this.

He could also have some dumb luck.

I remember with the Vita some people had burn-in after a few years of usage, and even one of my 2 Vita systems I have has some lighter burn-in.

Funny enough the one that has zero burn-in is over 10 years old and used for thousands of hours.

But burn-in on consoles is less of a issue anyhow, use a OLED for regular desktop usage and unless you try to prevent it, in few months you will already have visible issues.

I’m surprised that the thing isn’t overheating.

@Rayquaza2510
I use my OLED TV a lot for watching Podcasts and the like in background throughout the day, which is not much less of an issue than desktops because of all the static images.

0 issues after 5 years of usage...

Modern screens can protect themselves quite well against that sort of thing, which is why it isn't a usual issue on modern devices.
As long as the software does what it is supposed to...

Also the test they are showing here. If they always have it running on the same image like that for all 7000 hours, then they already tortured this Switch more than anyone ever would through normal usage.

@Greatluigi
Why would it overheat? It's not like a system just continues to get hotter forever if it stays on.

That's nice to see, certainly better than most smartphones and LG TV's. Only problem is I play docked pretty much all the time, so I'm fine with my plain old regular model.

If he’s looking at a screenshot, that means the Switch isn’t counting these hours as playing a game… he won’t be able to prove anything if it gets turned off!

I mean, you'd probably have to watch CNN 24/7 to really burn these screens

I wonder how much his electric bill has been costing him keeping this switch up 24/7.

I don't worry about burn in, but either way, it's a risk I'll take. My LG OLED tv's & Switch OLED have me spoiled. I could never go back to a LED/LCD tv. I can't even play my Switch Lites anymore and my ACNH Switch consoles stay docked to both of my OLED tv's. The vibrant colors and inky blacks are a sight to behold!

@talllennart I know, I'm saying I feel bad for playing picross on my OLED because the puzzles stay on the screen for a long time depending how much you play, especially the bigger ones

Lmao. 7k of consecutive hours on a specific image for still very minor/negligible burn in shows the OLED screen won’t crap on you with actual normal play the entire time you use the thing

@Serpenterror well 7k consecutive hours on a specific image shows it hasn’t greatly effected the screen so how much “over time” are we talking about now and will that even matter for the average Switch gamer that isn’t intentionally trying to mess up the screen?

@WallyWest it's worth it just to get the "burn-in" FUD BS people to STFU.

@Arawn93
well, he/she is kinda right.
OLED doesn't suffer from "traditional" burn-in like plasma or CRTs.
The LEDs of OLED screens get 'old' over time(=use) and keep on losing brightness with every minute they are in operation.
The brighter a LED has to light up in it's life, the sooner it will get dimmer. This can lead to a burn-in like scenario.
Now LEDs do not burn out like bulbs, they just get dimmer over time. That's a physical fact which cannot be prevented. Once the luminous flux reaches 50% a LED can be considered as 'dead'.
Now we are talking here about 50.000+ hours of heavy use.
Samsung(the switch OLED screen manufacturer), Sharp etc make excellent screens though which can reach an extraordinary long life without any hint of "burn-in".
They use software which constantly measures the luminous flux of all LEDs in the OLED screen and will dynamically lower the light output (of all LEDs) to the value of the 'most worn' LED.
So you probably will never notice a burned-in image but only that your screen gets dimmer and dimmer over time.

@Pichuka97 true ^_^

@iLikeUrAttitude Not much. Switch at full draw (most intensive games, docked for the Tegra at full clock) consumes LESS than a SeriesX on standby. It is truly a marvel what the custom clocked Tegra/Switch are able to pull graphically with such a negligible power draw/consumption, and most definitely a cutting-edge technical feature that sadly doesn’t get the praise it deserves.

OLED image retention definitely was and still can be a thing. From what I gather, it has improved a lot. The Switch and many phones with OLED now seem to be among the best in this regard and not really worth worrying about. When I do hear of examples of it happening, it seems to be predominantly TVs, and even then that seems uncommon now. Regardless of that, the Switch OLED seems fine with this.

@WallyWest lol

@iLikeUrAttitude lol