Switch 2 LCD is a big upgrade on the OLED key

With the official disclosure of Nintendo Switch 2, we now know that the launch model comes with the LCD screen and not OLED as did the last switch model. This seems to have disturbed a good number truly discount?

The answer is more complicated than you might think, and once the new screen is the LCD screen instead of OLED does not mean that switching 2 is a reduction. Not a long bullet.

Switch OLED screen is good, but it is not good

There is no controversy that the OLED key is a huge visual upgrade on the regular key. The original launch key, which I still have, was especially cheap and bright LCD and which was weak even according to today’s standards. It is a fog in movement, has terrible colors, and forgets contrast.

However, as OLEDS goes, the OLED key is not unique. It takes advantage of OLED’s inherent advantages, especially the ideal blacks and thus infinite contrast. However, later LCD update 2019 is actually more brighter than OLED. Digital museum It measures OLED at about 343 nits.

Keep in mind that since 2019, IPS panels have come a long run, my old ROG and Lenovo Legion jewelry, while do not provide perfect black levels, do not look completely gray or wash like LCD a few years ago.

Likewise, although Launch Vita had an OLED screen, I do not want this screen on any modern iPS. The simple reason is that all these screen technologies in a fixed arms race, and therefore should not assume that the budget OLED panel of 2021 will be better than the LCD plate of 2025 in everything.

Of course, the presence of a modern OLED panel in switching 2 He was It is likely to be better, but this is precisely related to the LCD screen in key 2 being a “rating”, when I think it is a great upgrade in all ways of the gaming system.

VRR and 120 Hz are more influential on games

The screen in the switch 2 is LCD 120Hz with VRR (variable update rate). For actual play, this is particle Upgrade via 60 Hz update OLED update that came before.

Some games will work on 120 Hz, of course, but I expect most of the games will have a variety of frames, and the presence of VRR 120 Hz has a greatly better experience in games that cannot keep a fixed FPS number. LFC (low frame compensation) is also allowed where the decreases are smooth less than 30 frames per second so that you cannot visually see them.

Aside from this, this painting should be much more responsive, and make the games feel upset than any frame rate within the 120 Hz window. After playing a game on ROG ally with its screen that can be able to similar, there is a daily difference in how games appear and feel movement.

1080p is a big jump

There are 921,600 pixels in a 1280 x 720 screen, compared to 2,073,600 for the 1920 x 1080 screen. Now the OLED key has a 7 -inch screen against a 7.9 -inch screen in the switch 2, so you do not expect to double the pixel density. Wars display Calculator, it gives a larger surface area of ​​27.37 %. This leaves a lot of additional pixel units per inch for the OLED key.

You will get a larger screen and The density of the highest pixels. We speak 44,016 for 77.757 pixels per square inch (using This calculatorThis is a big step in intensity. There is definitely a point of decreasing returns, but placing the OLED key next to the ROG 1080p ally, for example, is not an accurate difference.

HDR, vitality, and bottom material!

Nintendo confirmed in its announcement that the built -in offer provides HDR. We do not have a lot of technical information at this stage, but assuming that we are getting a useable HDR from this screen, this means that it will be a lot of brighter than the Switch OLED model.

This also means that this screen contains a type of local blackout, where you can forget the LCD screen with the appropriate HDR. Again, this assumes that the promised HDR is really HDR, but let’s give Nintendo the benefit of doubt here.

Nintendo has also made a point to inform us that this LCD screen is especially alive. For a while, OLEDS also had a vital feature on LCD screens with superior contrast rates, but those days have long been gone.

For example, QLED will be a brighter and more vibrant model than many low OLEDS. The heel heel is still an OLED technique, which is why we now see OLEDS side by side.

OLED will be a reward, but it is not decisive for games

Allow me to be, again, clear: it will be 120 Hz, HDR, 1080 pixels, VR OLED better than the LCD screen that we get at the launch key 2. However, given what we know about modern LCD screens, and the details that have been revealed so far by Nintendo, the Switch 2 screen is definitely a great upgrade on the OLED key for the game, not a step The background that seems to look to think.

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As with any technology on the screen, what matters is what the screen looks for the naked eye. You can talk about specifications and features throughout the day, but what enters the eyes makes all the difference. On paper, without seeing the new console personally so far, I think we have a good reason to believe that the games will look and play better on the LCD Switch 2 of Switch Oled. I would like to hate to prove a mistake, but this is a bet on being ready to take it.