Don't you think it's funny how they took the Nintendo 3ds XL and they decided hey
the key feature of this is that it plays games in 3d what if we make it cheaper
and remove that functionality altogether and make the 2d yes well it's cheaper
and a lot more people could buy it so that makes a lot of sense maybe it's
about time we do that with the Nintendo switch and guess what that's what they
did
here it is boys and girls here it is world it's finally arrived the Nintendo
switch light friendly reminder we're all still doing a giveaway for a regular
Nintendo switch as well as a copy of sword and shield or Link's Awakening
stay tuned to the end of the video for more info that's right Nintendo has
decided to take their flagship hybrid handheld slash home console and remove
half that functionality altogether and now it's just a handheld console
introducing the Nintendo switch light optimized for handheld play today on
July 10th Nintendo dropped a six and a half minute trailer basically showing
off the Nintendo switch light and all the things that it does well which is
playing in handheld mode it's available in three pretty awesome colors or two
awesome colors and one color we have yellow we have turquoise and we have
gray so when it comes to specs we're given the exact measurements of this
switch here it's 3.6 inches high so it's not much shorter than the current
Nintendo switch in fact it's less than a half inch shorter and it looks mostly
like that's coming off of the bottom area 8.2 inches long so it's lost almost
a full inch coming off to the side that makes sense because the Joye cons are
not detachable we'll talk about that in a moment the depth is exactly the same
at 5.5 inches the Nintendo switch is 0.88 pounds with the controllers
attached this switch light is three-quarters of that weight at point
six one pounds it is a 5.5 inch touchscreen so it's less than an inch
smaller as far as the screen which is really nice however the battery life is
slightly better the battery life is approximately three to seven hours as
the currents which is two and a half to six and a half hours for instance the
battery will last approximately four hours for breath of the wild
approximately three hours for breath of the wild I like how they literally say
if you're playing an intense game this is how much battery life you're gonna be
expecting and they also go on to say to look for the handheld
mode icon on the back of the boxes to see if it's gonna be compatible maybe a
little confusing for like the moms who walk into Game Stop to buy a game but
for a majority of you it's not gonna be problem plus I'm pretty sure there's not
going to be any issues for people who are you know knowing what they're doing
do I own a single game that's not handheld compatible oh la Bo's not
handheld compatible because not detachable joy cards Mario Party super
mario party is not handheld mode compatible on the back you can see that
there is the handheld icon and it's grayed out with the line through it that
is the only game I've found so far that is not handheld mode compatible so you
just flat-out can't play Super Mario Party on the switch light it's a party
game he's gonna be playing in a handheld mode by yourself anyways what kind of
antisocial party person are you and also they're going to be removing the buttons
for the left joy con and replace it with a plus shaped d-pad and the joy cons are
no longer removable they are fused to the system and they've also removed a
bunch of other things let's go over that it's missing detachable joi cons and no
longer has HD Rumble it there's no talk if it has any sort of rumble whatsoever
they've removed the IR motion capture which wasn't used for anything except
for like one two switch and lab oh you can no longer play in tabletop mode you
can no longer play in doctor mode it no longer includes a doc all that it comes
with is the Nintendo switch and the power adapter like I said right here and
they may also choose to not include a Nintendo switch doc in this one bundle
they could bring the price effectively from 300 down to the range of 150 to 200
the Nintendo switch light sports a compact design light weight and a plus
shaped d-pad those are all the advantages that I've been able to find
so far however in the trailer Koizumi son talked about the Nintendo switch
being optimized for handheld mode and then one part of that was when he walked
outside and he made it a point to talk about how bright the Sun was glaring
upon him and also during the trailer there was a
lot of pictures of people playing outside in the middle of the day in very
bright environments this leads me to believe that they're making the screen
brighter also possibly it's going to be an anti-glare screen designed for
outdoor play we've see that proportion-wise they've decreased the
bezel which is nice it also looks like it's indented most likely to protect
this screen when you're on the go that makes a lot of sense it's also gonna
make adding a screen protector much easier that is if this isn't just one
piece of protective Plexiglas right here also all the buttons and joysticks are
white which is pretty nice looking on the turquoise especially on the yellow
it's a little myth oh I get it I get it it's the question mark block
that's what they were going for then went for the question mark block it's a
question mark block not you next question mark block not talking to you
talking about this Ness one and while there is no official notes about this
and there's not a lot of pictures of the Nintendo switches details it looks like
from this image right here there's no game card slot hang on this
shot right here clearly has a game card slot right there game card slot they
probably use like a prototype during these trailers right here because it's
clearly missing right here that's a very noticeable little black area to cut out
and it is not visible however kosumi holds it up and that's a game card slot
okay I got worried there for a second are they going the Xbox 1s all digital
route ok the Xbox sad instead of a kickstand that you have the SD card slot
which is right down here which is really nice so we still have expandable storage
the front looks really clean instead of your hand resting here where like you
don't have a lot of support for the bottom when your hands are slightly
lower your hands now pivot to the center of your palm and when you do that it's a
much firmer grip and less chance of it actually like dropping and breaking
which is nice Optima for handheld play the home button and
the screenshot button are completely out of the way which is nice optimized for
handheld play they did say you are going to be able to pair external controllers
to the Nintendo switch like joy cons they did not say anything about pro
controllers however I would assume you know what happens when you assume I
would assume that you could pair pro controllers to this boy over here in
fact I would go so far as to say there's a good chance you're going to be able to
plug in an adapter that has a USB port and a charger on it not HDMI out
important and then being able to plug in an external controller in fact I'm gonna
pick one of those up and run those tests because those are important questions we
all need to know about oh no you need to buy separate cons play one two switch oh
no this does mean that for games like Pokemon let's go Pikachu and Eevee where
you have handheld mode like this or in doc mode you have the single joy con it
means that you're not going to be able to enable that single joy con mode ever
because the system doesn't dock so you're stuck in handheld mode forever
for a second person to join in they are going to be able to join in however they
do have to have a separate joy con can you play in handheld mode and then have
the second person with the Julie con I don't think that's the thing
Oh while we're talking about Pokemon we are going to be having a limited edition
console for pokemon sword and shields first of all here's a dope little
screenshot of all the systems the color joy cons the greyjoy cons the new gray
system which is a lighter gray then the previous Nintendo switches joy cons and
pointed to note yellow and turquoise they are so clean however as you can see
right here the Nintendo switch light through the I've been avoiding saying
their names the legendaries for pokemon sword and shield there's a limited
edition featuring them inscribed on the back which is pretty neat it looks a
little bit more obvious than the let's go Pikachu an Eevee decals there you go
in this one angle you can see it that's nice and the left side is the cyan and
the right side is the mention sigh sigh an enzyme magenta is a magenta
zama Zenta Zeiss Ian there we go this extra reminds me a little bit of
this so Gallio and Lu Nala 3ds where it's a contrasted color on the
background reminds me of that actually the art style is oh no this has a very
separated look like it's cut out into it this is just kind of drawing on close
enough oh if I talked about price that's 200 bucks for the Nintendo switch -
docking capabilities now this price point is kind of important because even
though $200 compared to $300 I'm losing everything for dock mode does seem a
little whack this is most likely the system that's going to be getting the
price cuts on the holidays there is zero chance that this year we will see a
price cut on either the Nintendo switch at 300 or the switch light at 200
however going forward in the following years while I don't think the Nintendo
switch will ever really come down in price maybe to the $250 mark we may see
the Nintendo switch light come down as low as 150 and maybe if the event if
they really want to push the install base for the investors we may see that
goes low as $99 in only a certain color only like the gray one or something zel
tech just posted this I don't know if he did it but it's a limited edition Link's
Awakening Nintendo switch not real but I love it I love it I want this I want
this this has been the Nintendo switch light it's $100 cheaper but at the cost
of not being able to dock your Nintendo switch and it's optimized for a portable
play handheld mode well it's no longer a mode now it's the only thing
Best Buy already has a placeholder up however they're not yet taking
pre-orders I don't think there's anyone who's like super excited to buy this
system I mean the limited edition sword and shield one yes as like a collector's
item but considering that this is priced pretty much the same as what the the new
3ds XL MSRP is and ain't bad I'm bad at all and you could officially
take your 3dsxl and throw it in the bin (Explosions) so guys I don't
want to know what you think about the switch light leave a comment down below
we are still doing a giveaway for a Nintendo switch a regular Nintendo
switch and a copy of sword and shield or Link's Awakening check the link out down
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until next time austan China