When it comes to the Nintendo switch ever since its release March third of
2017 we generally have never ever seen a price drop we've gotten a select number
of bundles that include games and generally it's not discounted too much
and right around the beginning of the holiday season for Black Friday we may
see a bundle that gives you an additional game however never ever have
we seen the Nintendo switch in any of its iterations fall below $300 unless
you go to Game Stop I used one for two hundred and eighty I don't recommend
that but a Nintendo's attempt to finally open up the market for people who maybe
can't afford a premium $300 console and have a 2d s a 3ds they want to convert
them to being Nintendo switch owners and they're doing it with the Nintendo
switch light the Nintendo switch light is only two hundred dollars compared to
three hundred dollars for Nintendo switch and loses the main functionality
of the switch which is to switch between a handheld and a portable console not
only is it significantly smaller but you got a lot less in the box so first let's
take a look at the packaging for the Nintendo switch light as I previously
mentioned it's a lot smaller than the package for the Nintendo switch in
height width and girth the Nintendo switch especially the v2 packaging
focuses on the many different forms and functions of the Nintendo switch this
switch light shows you in almost every single shot correction in every single
shot it being held in a hand to show that it is definitely a handheld console
and the top says Nintendo let's go ahead open this bad boy up
now the Nintendo switch light releases on Friday September 20th 2019 I happen
to get my hands on a curly one by a local shop that was selling it early so
yay I also had to drive six hours for it so that's that's what it cost to me what
did it cost everything so we open it up and here is our Nintendo switch light in
beautiful packaging right below that we lift this up we have documentation and a
single power cord something really interesting to point out here I have an
original Nintendo switch power brick and the new Nintendo switch light power
brick they are completely identical in power consumption input/output
everything the only difference is it's a different serial number they use a
different font and the new one is made in China and the old one is made in the
Philippines they're both the exact same length part of the reason the Nintendo
switch lights packaging is so much smaller is mostly due to the fact that
there's nothing in the box compared to the Nintendo switch which as soon as you
open it it presents itself as being with separate joy cons and below that having
compartments for the Nintendo switch dock power cord documentation joy con
grip and the joy con rails instead you don't have any of that so boom that's it
that'd be the only thing the yellow is not a very bright high-gloss yellow it's
sort of like a gold inspired yellow almost kind of a cheese yellow in this
shot here I'm going to do my best for color correction that way it appears the
exact same way that it appears for me in real life while it's sort of cheese
yellow it's not as cheese yellow as pokemon yellow it's only a shade off
from the let's go Pikachu and Eevee limited edition yellow as opposed to the
arms neon yellow which is a much more green yellow so overall it's yellowness
isn't that loud which is really nice if we were to inspect the top of the switch
light we have ourselves the power button the volume rocker some vents for heat a
headphone jack and a game card slot these two small black circles that you
see right here these are actually Phillips head screws and that would be
how you take apart the switch light and if we look at the bottom
here we have an area for the micro SD card we have two more Phillips head
screws USBC and my finger is covering up the serial number and if we look at the
bottom here we have these two holes I believe this is going to be where the
sound is coming out of I'm not too sure we're gonna find out when we turn it on
and inspecting the front of the switch instead of the four buttons that we have
on the Left joique on which you may be used to instead now we have a firm d-pad
when comparing the d-pad to say the d-pad of the pro controller it does have
a similar feel to it there is not as much travel time and
also there's a much more muted sound as opposed to on the pro controller which
actually is somewhat audible when you press down in a direction when comparing
the buttons on the ABXY the actuation point feels a little bit further down as
opposed to the Joye con which as soon as you press it you immediately feel it
being registered so similar to how the pro controller has a little bit of
travel before it's finally pushed down that's a similar feel to the buttons
here on the switch light the plus and minus buttons that appear at the top of
the switch are the exact same buttons they have the exact same feel as the
Joye cons and when it comes to the joysticks that are on here they feel
exactly the same as the Joye cons now I do not know if they've updated anything
on the inside to possibly address the drifting issue if you want to learn more
about that I recommend checking out my buddy spawn wave he does lots of tear
downs and I'm sure Friday he's going to be doing a teardown of the Nintendo
switch light on the Nintendo switch it does have this glass vessel that goes
around the screen and it's black right here so it doesn't really appear visible
as opposed to the switch light that it's colored back there so because of that
you can clearly see where the Plexiglas begins and where the screen begins and
then the last thing to note is similar to the pro controller which I literally
just learned about this there's an LED around the home button
and here on the switch lights you can see an LED ring around the home button
when they don't further ado let's go ahead and boot up the switch light
I think it's funny that they still use the switch logo of the joy count
attaching on the system that doesn't have detachable joy counts just by going
through like the whole setting up page it feels nice it feels really nice in
the hand also disclaimer I don't have big hands I really don't I kind of have
girly hands they're bigger than a child's hands I'm not a guy with like
big growl a masculine sausage finger hands and said like the pro controller
is like a very comfortable full fit for me as opposed to the Nintendo switch
that well my hands feel cramped over here it's almost impossible for me to
reach things in the middle so if I were to play a game that works exclusively
with the touch screen like Mario maker 2 or poly bridge it's hard for me and I
actually prefer to remove the joy comes when I do something like that here for
the switch light while the screen isn't much smaller I do have like great
control and I can type on to this no problem the shoulder buttons feel very
similar to the joy Khan shoulder buttons however instead of that crisp clicking
this it has sort of more of a muted sound instead you're going to be hearing
all of the buttons that have a muted sound it makes a lot of sense because
this is something you're going to be playing in public and people are gonna
be hearing it all the time I think that's a nice little attention to detail
that they decided to do oh I like the d-pad the d-pad feels solid I like I
really like the clicking this of the d-pad during the setup screen I have an
option here for import user you can copy an existing user and use it on an
additional console or transfer it entirely you still have the console with
your user you want to import yes will you keep using this previous console in
addition to this one yes link Nintendo account system update is
required so we'll be attending to later so the Nintendo switch light at
ship date is going to be shipping with system firmware number oh it doesn't
tell me the firmware it just says system update is ready that was a very fast
update so because of that I'm starting to think that it was on 8.1 and now it
just went to 9.0 which that's the most recent firmware update that happened
that took literally that fast I don't know if I'll keep it in there but it was
I don't know maybe 10 seconds yes and now we're on version 9.0 and there's
sort of a weird feeling here it's sort of the same feeling if you've ever owned
a 3ds and a 3ds XL that while the 3ds XL is a bigger screen the non XL version is
a smaller screen but it it feels more crisp obviously the pixel density is
going to be more tight so because of that it's it's sort of a better-looking
screen I'm not gonna lie when I pick this up I didn't think that I was
actually going to use this because I very rarely played the switch in
handheld mode because I'm recording footage for you guys a lot of the time
but this this feels nice one thing that I did notice almost immediately the
light these are definitely the speakers here at the bottom this is where the
sound is coming out of and if you are in a position that you're resting your
hands like this the sound becomes very muffled
if you have larger hands your hands may be gripping around the outside of the
switch and then covering up the speaker's also if you're laying in bed
and you're playing with your switch on your tummy like a sea otter there's a
very good chance that you're going to be covering up the speaker's the screen
looks really good like I'm really enjoying the crisped nests of this
screen
okay it's very hard to play the game like that with it not facing me at all
and I have to like completely lean over in order to see so what do I think
overall about the Nintendo switch light I really like it if you're someone who
has a lot of important data on their Nintendo switch if you're a content
creator or if you just sync so many hours into your Nintendo switch and you
want a system that let's say is more expendable then maybe the Nintendo
switch light is a good second system for you so you keep this one at home and
then this one is your on the go or maybe this is the family's Nintendo switch and
you want your own which makes sense especially with Pokemon and Animal
Crossing coming out you're gonna want a lot of single-player data so whatever it
may be if this is going to be your first time purchasing a Nintendo switch going
from the full switch to the switch light you're not losing a lot of the
experience you're still going to be able to play this with another controller far
away in a tabletop mode you're still going to be able to play this with
extended battery life which is fantastic so do I think this is a worthy
replacement of the 2d SXL absolutely I need a price point being $100 less than
the switch it's a great way to get in here anyways guys I'm wrapping up this
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