 hey folks this is a base normal plain old nintendo switch missing the kickstand but whatever this is the switch that most of you guys own some of you guys probably have the light which is somewhere else in my studio right now but this is a nintendo switch and this is a switch OLED now that might look like just a still image of a switch OLED but actually we do have full video of an unboxing for you of an american a us nintendo switch OLED we also have various images showing comparisons and one small video clip showing direct mario kart 8 comparisons at max brightness now we're going to talk about this in a moment here and how i got all this footage but before i do i want to remind you we are giving away a switch OLED so yes folks we're actually giving away one of these things that we're looking at today in fact the white version you know like the one shown in today's video uh if you want to enter you just got to subscribe to the channel otherwise show up to a live stream we're doing this friday now let's just get straight to the unboxing shall we so this footage was sent to me by a fan obviously we have 72 000 plus fans of this channel but this particular person was able to get their hands on a switch OLED early and as far as i'm aware this was not obtained through any illegal methods that he's necessarily aware of the person he bought it from who knows what they did to get their hands on it early but this does appear to be a legitimate copy or legitimate you know wholesale version of the switch OLED meaning that maybe some retailers might already have some of these sitting in the back room somewhere in the united states i'm not sure but what's interesting about this situation uh is that they don't want me to mention necessarily who they are they'd rather me advertise their son's youtube channel so big shout out to mr zeke 725 that is the son of the person who sent me this uh if you guys are interested and you feel very appreciative of the footage you're seeing right now which is an unboxing go ahead and follow and subscribe to his channel i'm sure his son would greatly appreciate a little boost in subscribers next time he goes to release one of his little he makes like a little short comedy clip or whatever so here's the thing um how did they come across where i have this footage and i'm able to share it with you guys and the images that are going to be coming soon and there's not really um a magical reason to this other than the fan reached out to me i'm excited to show off that they got their hands on a switch OLED and i just asked them simply if we could use some footage and use some of this and do our own kind of exclusive video here at nintendo prime as far as i'm aware we're the first outlet outside of the uh the japan one um that one youtuber in japan who got his hands on it early uh we're the first english person i'm aware of to even post a video like this uh so i'm greatly appreciative to him i even asked him about potentially sending it to me uh so i could do some other stuff ready for launch or you know buying it off him or something like that we'll see if that is something uh that comes to any sort of uh fruition do to benefit the channel but the big thing for me in this isn't so much uh the value of of having that early enough to do better launch coverage um what what what the value of it here is just showing you better looks at things that i feel like the first unboxing in japan didn't do um things like how it actually compares at max brightness this was something i actually had to explain to him how to do because i'm not not everyone knows that you could set your switch to max brightness most people just leave it on auto and it'll adjust based on your lighting and that's fine for most people but the reason i wanted him to turn on max brightness is because in theory the OLED panel should be brighter than the old panel but that's not necessarily true it depends on what the you know the the overall max brightness of the screen is there are actually bad OLED panels where there's true OLED but the max brightness is so low that it ends up not really mattering and as you're going to see here in a moment in some footage uh yeah it's quite a bit brighter uh and there's there's an image over here like fifa in a couple other games and um some close-ups on the dock we'll get that in a moment but i find it to just be utterly fascinating that uh that's just the way that this is designed um to be just that much brighter and that much more vibrant and another thing that obviously stands out is you know i wasn't so sure that seven inch screen size was going to uh be much of a difference but when you see it right next to the normal nintendo switch damn like damn it's definitely significantly bigger in terms of screen real estate and again mario kart 8 might not be the best game and this is not my ultimate comparison i have a comparison moment to be tearing apart the system tearing apart the dock and thankfully the dock does look like it's pretty easy to take apart you do need i'm a tri-wing screwdriver which i have all of the tools here to do all that so um and the dock looks double layered i find that interesting there's like a vent and then there's like a pseudo layer in another vent i'm very curious about that also uh something i noticed and he sent me images of this there's these slits along the bottom and these slits uh seem to be at least to me he was telling me that he felt like that was where the speakers were but the slits are almost too wide to me to be anything of note in terms of speakers i think these are actually air intakes um and that mesh there happens to just be like a dust filter right you don't want to be sucking a bunch of dust into the system uh that's where i think they are they could very well be speaker grills it's just speaker grills usually aren't that wide on a platform like this if i we've seen them where they're as little as just a little tiny dot um when you know the current switch speaker you know doesn't have anything like i'm looking at it right now um we have a similar air intake system on the back of the current switch with two smaller slits um and instead of it using a mesh it's using like a plastic uh little granular sheet um to kind of be a dust filter and this one looks like it's using a metal um you know kind of a mesh to be a dust filter i was interesting though is he's only had this for a short while and already it looks like the mesh is dented he's not even sure how that happened if it was just going in under the dock or you know what what happened because he said he's very careful with his systems uh but it could have also just came out of the box that way that's something to to know but those definitely like some hefty air intakes and it's two of them just like it is on the current switch uh so very interested to see um you know if they've changed the cooling inside the switch all that at all we'll find that out on my ultimate comparison that should be going out day one uh so yeah so i'm curious to see if there's any cooling changes did they change the fan did it change the location of the fan location of the heat pipes are they using a completely different board set up on the inside or is this literally just what's already in the current switch slapped in a new body with a bigger the bigger screen and that's it um nothing else has changed we know the chips that's the same and there shouldn't be any speed differences we do know the memory module should be bigger and we should be able to show that to you guys when we tear it apart but uh yeah we can't we can't know until we tear it apart what else has changed um it doesn't give us a good look at the kickstand obviously we see one angle where the kickstand is kicked up and you can see where the sd card goes in um that's all fine and dandy uh i i kind of hate those angle like slotting in sd card slots like that but they do work and they are on other devices i would have preferred if they would have kept it on the bottom personally uh but again they had the such those long slots for cooling they clearly wanted to put the sd card reader somewhere else so we already know there's going to be a slightly different configuration at least for that sd card reader uh compared to the old switch but yeah it's the kickstand obviously looks like it's massive of course which we should expect that it takes up like two-thirds of the back of the switch um and it definitely has a nice indentation in the switch so the switch definitely only feels flush when it's closed which it should feel flush obviously in that in that scenario um but yeah there's just a lot that we could digest here um but mostly it's just taking a look at stuff it is nice to actually see the lamp port up close um i can't tell from these screenshots it looks like it's wired for one gig but it's so hard to tell from these kind of shots until we actually take it apart and see if that's actually a full gig lamp what i really hope it is i really hope that i'm not running it through usb 2.0 it would make no sense to include one natively on it and have it run through usb 2.0 it should in theory be directly connected to the board which is a very good sign that it's going to be at least one gigs which is bog standard and has been standard for quite some time usb 2.0 is not capable of those kind of speeds so it should actually be a more a much more stable connection especially if you're doing game streaming let alone gaming online it should be a much more stable connection through the dock um that being said obviously i'm very curious about that dock design it is different on the back compared to the current dock um with that double layer kind of thing the air vents notably or what we used to call air vents because we had those two slits on the original dock aren't even located where where you would take an air like it takes an air from the bottom supposedly so what are those air vents doing on the back i i'm very curious if it's like the air goes it flows in through the back and then down through the bottom and up through the switch i'm very curious how that airflow structure isn't again that is something we'll find out when we tear apart the dock but i do want to say a big thank you to the fan who sent this uh to us and got some of the requested footage and requested angles the unboxing and all of that because this is as far as i'm aware an exclusive um at the moment and i do not know if nintendo is going to take this video down um because they probably don't want a video like this out there because then that's them being a that's them letting some letting them be aware that some switches have leaked to the public and uh not doing anything about it makes it seem like that's okay uh and it's probably not okay i obviously didn't think we'd get anything like this at our channel uh we are not a nintendo ambassador we do not get nintendo systems early we don't get nintendo games early um every now and then we'll get lucky where a retailer might be selling something a week ahead of time uh and we just happen to snag a copy usually this is more true at mom and pop shops you might see it at walmarts but usually if it doesn't ring up in their system they won't sell it to you uh but if you go to like a mom and pop shop and they happen to have some sometimes you know they don't really have a normal system sometimes it's literally just a basic register so they might be willing to sell it to you but that's neither here nor there uh personally i'm really really excited about this please go subscribe uh to mr z725 down below at least give him a handful of subscribers to make his his child wake up and be pretty excited today uh to see a little increase in potential viewers uh you guys are amazing thanks for all your support because without all of you guys watching my channel we wouldn't have came across a fan contacting us uh to give us this unique opportunity uh if nintendo does request we take it down of course we will um abide by that it doesn't mean that we won't find some way to do some coverage but nintendo would obviously need to bind us to an nda we are not currently binded to an nda because we are not working with nintendo to get this footage this is just a retail unit that came out to the public and i find what's funny about this if nintendo does end up giving a crap is uh this this is more advertising for the switch OLED than nintendo's done themselves since they announced it notice how nintendo has didn't even talk about it in the direct it's almost like they're acting as if the switch OLED doesn't exist it's weird right very weird so if nothing else they should do this up because it's good advertising for their platform it actually makes it look good against this current switch and gives people a reason to potentially want to upgrade anyways uh i'm nintendo robo jance from nintendo prime oh one last note i thought this was weird on the back of the dock it just pops off that that that cover that you put in your hdmi cable your power cord and your ethernet uh it just pops off it's not a hinge on the current one it's a hinge this one literally just comes off it just pops right off we saw that on the japanese video but the difference with that was because we don't speak that language natively we weren't sure if he just did that by accident it was supposed to be a hinge um and maybe he explains that and i just don't understand japanese but now we know there is no hinge it literally just pops right off which can be a little bit scary at first because you might assume you broke it but it definitely just slots in on the bottom and then pops back in um very interesting design like that i feel like that designs like gonna last as long as a hinge then again maybe the hinges weren't lasting very well i don't know i don't my hinges haven't broke yet i got two different docks at my house um none of the hinges are broken but maybe that's just something uh that has been a concern uh and they figured that this is a more secure way to attach it uh beats me but that that is a a change that nintendo obviously never talked about uh is changing how that back plate opens anyways folks i am Nathaniel robo jance from nintendo prime thank you so much for tuning i'll catch you in the next video