SWITCH OLED: We played the new Nintendo console, our impressions under all seams

Since last month, you've known as we have that the next declination of the Nintendo transportable console will not venture as far as murmured on the hardware, and puts it especially forward a * OLED screen slightly enlarged ** to complete An interchangeable range according to his desires and his finances.

The size, it counts?

It is noticed that the taking of the Switch OLED is almost similar to the classic version of 2017, since only a few small millimeters and two or three details for the warned eye come to distinguish it. With a higher weight of just 20 grams, impossible to feel the difference, even if the most observer will not fail that the ON, Volume and even aeration have been the subject of some retouching. It is once lit that the difference appears more clearly, since the reduced edges of the screen allow you to enjoy an enlarged image, which gives the feeling of enjoying a little more space. The proportions Having been carefully reflected, the ratio of the image does not change, so we enjoy this new OLED screen for splitting in two via a small versus of families on Mario Kart 8 deluxe, obviously won by your servant.

By detaching the White Joy-Con, a trace that could let think that Nintendo seems to have understood four years later that his drift poisons the life of the players, nothing does: despite a hardware Reduced on the two shudges of the Switch OLED , these detachable controllers are identical to those that regularly talk about them. What a pity.

The OLED screen draws immediately its game pin, obviously emphasizing once more dull contrasts, even on the first games of the machine: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe displays more brilliant colors than ever, and the game to two Locally is all the more appreciable than no reflection comes to interfere with the frenetic action of a necessarily furious race. For attempting the exercise of the comparison in the wake, we can assure it: the difference is flagrant.

Éric, at the table!

It is still in table mode that we are then invited to revive Super Mario Odyssey, which also benefits from a first level that is the beautiful shafts to display its difference. What a pity not to have discovered a more colorful environment like the country of falls, both the experience is appreciable. Here we are now alone in the orders, the opportunity to discover the adjustable support also expanded, and which offers this time the leisure to settle it according to your goodwill. Exit the unique notch of the little stable tongue of 2017 , place at a broad band whose resistance ensures good maintenance and allows to find the ideal angle in all circumstances. The microSD port, always concealed behind, now presents horizontal.

The SWITCH OLED seems definitely drawing its gamepin in table mode, since it is also in this configuration that progress made on the side of the expanded speakers, which offer more finesse, and Allow a few more compositions, for little they do not interfere with anywhere around (otherwise you deserve hell, know it). Nomadic players will retort that they only do it, swearing only by headphones or earphones, and they will be right.

A life of details

For it must be clear: it is outside its dock that the SWITCH OLED reveals the best of its charms , which makes it a priori very dispensable for the sofa squatters ... at a detail. The new dock with rounded shapes (and at the much better finish, say it is indeed equipped with an Ethernet jack, a grail for those who suffer from a random connection or a distance too much with their box.

Failure to have tried an online part (which we would have anyway earned), it is by opening the rear valve that we see the few improvements made to this new model. The facade can now completely come off to facilitate seamless connections on the original, and a curved slot facilitates their exit, a detail that can leave marble but which attests to a copied copy in its smallest details , In the same way as the rounded edges of the dock now more classy. And for those who arise the question: yes, the dock (sold separately via the Nintendo online store) adapts without harm to the 2017 hardware, but no longer marries the edges of the screen, that of the * SWITCH OLED * having expanded its diagonal. CQFD.