- The screen is a somewhat disappointing downgrade from the OLED Switch; it has that glowing LCD effect going on. It's not bad, but not great either. That said, it does support 120 Hz and VRR, which I'll get to test when my copy of Cyberpunk 2077 comes in tomorrow.
- On the positive side, Switch 2 does some kind of "auto HDR"-style thing: everything on Switch 2 has HDR applied! I fired up the Genesis emulator and the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection, and Holy Moses do they look bright and vivid on my OLED TV.
- Back to the negatives, the Switch 2 has a heck of a time connecting to my router's 5 GHz wireless network: it doesn't work at all in my bedroom office in the basement-- when every other device works fine, including the OLED Steam Deck. The only way I can get wireless connectivity with Switch 2 is by being upstairs, or using my 2.4 GHz network.
- Another negative: Street Fighter 6 has substantial frame drops in some of the stages. On top of it, you can tell it's "DLSS'ing" from an extremely low internal resolution, as the characters' hair is an artifactey mess.
- A positive is that the speakers are a huge upgrade from the OLED Switch: they sound much more bassey.
- Another positive is that the Fantasy Life i upgrade is awesome! 60 fps, and a massive resolution bump-- almost doesn't feel like the same game!
- But another negative: the battery life on Switch 2 seems horrible! I had the thing sitting in its case, suspended, and I took it out later in the day to find out it'd drained itself down to 10%.
- To end with a positive, Fuze runs great! A guy on the forum posted a bunch of benchmarks, and the Switch 2 absolutely blows away the original unit, by multiple factors! Plus with the "auto HDR" thing going on, Skatey-Cat and Dredge have never looked better!
Overall I'd say the platform is kind of disappointing. I'll be curious to see how it sells after all of the hardcore early adopters get them. It doesn't really have much "Nintendo charm", it's super expensive, and it's just a rehash of the original Switch concept, with two steps forward but also a step backwards in some ways, such as the screen and the poor wireless chip.
Tomorrow I'll jump into Cyberpunk 2077 and Mario Kart World, which I haven't tried yet. Maybe my impressions will be more positive then.