Alright, so Nintendo’s back at it with their new Switch 2 — but guess what? The screen’s kinda meh. This dude, Chimolog, from China — yeah, a reviewer or something — says the screen’s got a lag. Like, an average response time of 17.06 milliseconds. No clue how he tested it, though. Grain of salt, folks.
Anyway, the thing’s got a 1080p, 120 Hz, 7.9-inch LCD. Not too shabby on paper. Best case? 8.88 ms. Worst? A sloth-like 27.46 ms. Basically, if those pixels were runners, they’d trip over themselves trying to keep up with a 60 Hz refresh. He even lined it up against loads of other screens — 60 Hz, 75 Hz, you name it — and, surprise: it tanked.
Oh, and the closest runner-up? Some Innocn M2U Mini-LED thing at 11.06 ms. Like, a 65% difference. Reality check, Nintendo prioritized everything else. Brightness, contrast, color — those bits aren’t bad. Heck, 1309:1 contrast ratio, 1.54% brightness uniformity, and 303 cd/m² peak brightness. And it does the whole color gamut dance: 100% sRGB, nearly all of DCI-P3, Adobe RGB, yadda yadda yadda. Sounds fancy, right?
Here’s the kicker — text. Chimolog says the RGB layout’s wavy or something, muddling up the letters. Think OLED text fuzz. Oof. And did he test 120 Hz? Nah. Usually, speeds up when it hits high refresh rates, but no definite answer here. Make of that what you will.
Oh, gee, and get this: it’s slower than the original Switch? Like, the OG! Supposedly, by 10 ms, even some tested 33.3 ms. Ouch. But guess what? People don’t care. Seriously. Everyone’s buying it. Broke sales records: 3.5 million in four days. Folks love their Nintendo games too much to care about a laggy screen.
Here’s hoping they’ll do an OLED version. C’mon, Nintendo, give us a break.
