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We also actually have a switch light, but no one cares about that because we also have This that's right folks This is the Nintendo switch OLED system, and I think first Let's just start off by saying that this is going to be an ultimate comparison We will be doing everything we can to test this system and compare it to this system as well as a switch light Let's start by just kind of showing off the difference in the unboxing experiences between the version 2 switch and the switch OLEDs and let's focus on these bad boys. So This is the base Nintendo switch box So we open this up with this tab right here, and then it conveniently opens up like that and Bam, so this is where you would have your switch unit and the two joy-con You'd have the dock over here some other stuff over here We'd have controllers and all sorts of other you guys all know that this is nothing new This is the same unboxing experience as existed in 2019 so Here is the Nintendo switch OLED and again it has a tab well first Let's just take a look at the box you guys and kind of see All that stuff on the box this box is pretty beat up But you know what matters is is the internals what we want it to be So let's open up the box you pull this tab out put it down Open it up and there is the switch over the first we have our white joy-cons now pull this thing This is not my first time unboxing this system So yeah, you're gonna see games and stuff installed on it or attempting to install because we have some comparisons in tow here But let me pull out the actual switch OLED And as you see there this is indeed a switch OLED You should be able to already tell that it has a bigger screen you can see on the back the logo is further down We have a different kickstand all that jazz So let's just slide on these joy-cons and actually set this aside like this Underneath we have things I haven't unboxed yet. We have the new dock This is obviously the big ticket item on the bottom This dock is white and features a lamp or it also can be updated to be a firmware So we will take a look at that pop off this back quick There'll be some other shots as well later that will show off the dock and more detail, but yeah, that is the doc alright and we have HDMI cable which we will use this one power brick which looks to be the exact same power brick which I'm not I'm not surprised Nintendo branded power brick switch We have a grip which is going to be the exact same grip As the original switch so we're just gonna kind of keep that in here because I don't need a second grip right now And that's it. I think there are joy-con straps somewhere out here to go Is that what these things are called and these are just slightly different in that they have? some different sort of Texture on the actual string as it's kind of like a braided style, but overall it's pretty much the exact same So this stuff isn't really what's so different other than they've kind of compacted how they could switch in a box This box is smaller than the original box So obviously they fit the same amount of stuff slightly bigger platform in the smaller box So that's always good better on the environment all that jazz. Let's set this box aside. All right so first thing we're going to do is compare all Of these switches next to each other well turned on so let's put the switch light above and then we have the Switch OLED in the middle, and let's just turn these all out. So here's the normal switch All right, here is the switch OLED And then here is the switch light So you can kind of get a good comparison here of the screen size So one thing you should immediately notice is this screen is more of a true white Whereas these look more washed out This one actually looks almost cyan in comparison to the light and then we obviously have the original switch OLED right here in the middle But yeah, one thing we can look at quit is the difference in the sizes so When we stack up the switches like this you will notice ever so slightly that this one appears longer Longer width wise. So yes, this is definitely a slightly bigger It is supposed to be nine point five inches wide versus nine point four inches wide the original switch I don't know the dimensions of the switch like the opposite switch light is not intended to be bigger Anyways, this is just a look at this Let's get into some of the comparisons you guys might actually care about the most. Let's play some damn games Shall we? All right, so now we're going to take some things apart. So this is first off the new dock So you guys can get a good look at that It is glossy on the inside now someone wondered If it is less scratch resistant and while I'm not going to intentionally scratch at my switch I'm going to say it's probably not less scratch resistant just because it's shiny in there It's still a hard plastic So I would say scratching problems are just as prevalent as they were on the original switch dock It's just there was a matte finish inside. See it's a matte finish versus the gloss otherwise the insides look rather identical which There is one difference, of course I don't know if you guys can tell when we take it apart. You'll see they moved where the air vents are So we know on the back of the normal dock You know, you just have your hgmi and all that jazz And then this one doesn't have a hinge It just pops off. So people kept telling me it has a hinge I have the thing in front of me. There's no hinge and we see we have our ethernet jack in here So what we're going to do is we're going to take these docks apart And compare them. So let's get the original dock apart first And then go from there. All right. So already noticing some differences here So on the back of the board, they did move the ribbon cable that connects the charging port on the inside Over to the right a bit more to the left and then there's more chiplets back here So we have one two three chiplets right here But we also have one two three four and then there's a little tiny one right there. This Is an arm microprocessor This has the ability to manage the whole chip And everything happened on including the ethernet And it also has memory in it that can be updated. This is where you get your firmware updates in comparison to the original So this is new This is new Technically this particular model number is capable of upscaling I can't say it's going to upscale or handle upscaling, but it is capable On this side, obviously we see our standard ethernet port which does have A separate controller for that ethernet port. So this should be full one gig speeds But we'll see on the internet speed test if that holds true. You can see on this side It's a much more simpler board on the original I'm gonna take some close-up shots of these as well some images here to show you guys but Yeah, this looks uh This looks good This looks really good. I'm there is a controller in there that can do upscaling. So At least based on what I was able to look up That is fascinating. All right So now we're going to be taking uh these all apart now technically I already have I don't have to take apart this switch because I already have a switch here that is a part We'll look at that in a moment. Uh the switch light by the way I already took all the screws out and I've already taken it apart once I didn't put the screws back in So we're just going to get this thing apart one thing I know what some people wanted to know quick And I didn't address this yet Uh is if you want to know if this game card flap is any better than the original game card flap Now they are slightly different designs as you can see Um, this one obviously being more shiny because the whole switch OLEDs a matte finish Uh, if you guys look at that it's a matte finish compared to glossy Uh or glossy year. Um, so if you want to know if this is any better So this is like a rounded obviously got the little rubber there I wouldn't say that this is necessarily any better. Um, you can see it's basically using the exact same Um hinge system there. Uh, they're just slightly different shaped at the top to match the body designs, but um, yeah You guys see a look at the top and see the extra Functionality here. I guess we'll see what that is when we take it apart Obviously the difference in the power buttons here Everything else is the same. I did take apart the joy con already I will note that we're not going to be showing that on video because it turns out that the joy con are exactly the same They're they did just put a white shell on it. There's no updates to the joy con. Sorry to say these are not Um, yeah, these these are the same sticks. I'm sorry. I was hoping they'd be new but they're not anyways Let's uh, take the OLED apart. This is my first time. Um, and let me get the switch light apart here um Of course, I already squeezed this thing back together switch lights a bit of a pain to take apart All right, and they said just kind of flies off like that Um, so that's just the back plate of switch light and then there's this This is the power and volume stuff right here. This is the original switch Which you guys know, you know, there's the back plate for the original switch. Um, it's got totally dried out thermal phase but whatever, uh, kind of Disassembled at this point. Um So this would normally be, uh, get this in frame here. So this would normally be, uh, Covering up this and then this would go Like Like this this would this would go Like that. Uh, this is the sd card reader. That would be right Uh here And then it's missing the game card slot. This is actually an extra switch I use for parts Um, the battery is still good in it. So that's like as an example. I ever need to use switch battery I can get it right out of here These do use two different batteries the light and the normal switch will see what battery this one uses Uh, but yeah, you can see obviously, uh, the fin stack here Um, and I want to get it kind of close up. This is the original blades, but we'll compare that And this is the same chip. So I don't know if I'm going to go down to the chip level here This is the memory modules the 32 gigs again So I don't know if we're going to rip up the plate that's going to be on the other one Because literally the chip's going to be the same inside, uh, but we'll see we'll see what happens Um, so yeah, that is that let's get taking apart the OLED So nintendo like a lot of companies likes using triwin. I have yet to have to change my, uh My screwdriver here triwing has been plenty and I am using an iFixit kit I'll put a link to this iFixit kit this exact one, uh down in the description It is something that I find to be extremely useful. Um, and it comes with the cover here that you can kind of organize your screws on It's not magnetic, but there are ridges and stuff. So I find it to be Quite useful. Um, I'm someone that takes apart electronics quite frequently I would suggest this is something you do to your switch. Uh, notably it could void your warranty technically opening Any electronic is not, um, legally a way to avoid warranty However, there's legal and then there's obviously, um, when you start messing with the chip, okay, those are actually Those are philips head They are so strange in how they switch between philips head and triwing, but this is just This is just what nintendo does They want to confuse you they want you to strip all your screws So that was the wrong one for this one. This is the one we need. See how much easier that came out All right, let's separate that because that is a different type of screw. It's a really tiny one Now i'm not sure if we're gonna have to remove the kickstand I know, uh, when I watched austin evans video because he was the first person to take apart a switch Oh, that sort of he sort of took it apart. He took the back plate off um that he didn't uh He did remove Um this but i'm not so sure that we actually need to remove that Now I am going to disconnect Uh, the rails here I'm not sure if I need to disconnect the rails, but we're going to Do it anyways and good. They all use the same screw size. So that's nice So we're gonna unscrew the rails anyways I can't remember if on the original switch if I had to unscrew the rails or not But it's not that hard to just screw them back in. I'm not just like with the dock I'm not going to show the process of putting them back together Uh, what was fun about taking part of the dock is I thought I I snapped one of the little screws because there's a Hidden tiny screw in there. Um But uh, I didn't so everything's not good. So the rail should just kind of sit there So you can kind of see All of that and you can see where the rail is connected At the bottom here just taking apart the hinge is going to be a pain in the butt, but you know what? We're going to take apart the hinge anyways, right? This is a disassembly So why not just take it all the way apart? I will attempt to obviously reassemble the hinge And kind of see how it kind of rolls down See how well you see that see how it kind of rolls in Rolls out. So that's how the hinge mechanism works So, um, we got the back plate off Uh, but one of the rails broke while I was taking it apart. The ribbon actually snapped off This is a good time to see this is the original switch and this is the switch rail I broke Let's see if they're the same design So it looks like they are identical. So I well actually there's a little bit of difference In this top part here It's rounded up more, but I think I should be able to still use this rail on here. So we're going to get this rail Taken out maybe maybe I could just reuse the cable It's possible because they have a ribbon cable running right here I might be able to just reuse the cable. So this one only uses three screws. This one uses more than three, but Anyways, uh, we're going to transfer the rail off of this one So this is why having to switch with extra parts as I said taking apart your switch OLED is not something I suggest people do at home. Um, so I'm just going to get this rail removed with that cable and see if I can So since I broke that other rail, we're going to re screw this rail down in the bottom It looks like uh, when you take this apart, you don't undo the bottom screw The bottom screw on the rail is not needed to be undone. Oops is not needed to be undone Um, to take it apart. So the key thing is leave The bottom screw in so you don't rip your ribbon cable like I did. That's just a theory a game theory All right, so now we won't rip that one Um Ah dang it. So I got this um Removed from the original switch And where is so this is the rail For the new switch OLED and this is the old rail as you see the difference I had to drill out a screw that that uh, that work We see that the holes are a little bit different and the tops a little bit different But it looks like the underneath is the same. So I'm going to take this board off Put it on here And then we'll keep dissecting the switch OLED after I do that just to make sure I have everything in working order All right, we're gonna give up on trying to fix that rail for now It is what it is My left joy-con my left joy-con might not charge correctly or I won't charge it all to be honest. Um I won't definitely disconnect that ribbon cable though. I want to get this thing apart So inside we still have more phillips head screwdriver or phillips head screws So I definitely did not need to take apart this hinge So I'm gonna first I'll reattach the things that did not need to take apart this hinge All right, let's get the rest of the switch taken apart. I've already gotten this far. So You know I broke a rail. It is what it is. What's the worst I can do now? I say that now let's get all these screws removed So with the ground wire set aside We now have it open and we can now take a look at it compared to the original Now again, I'm not going to take this off right here. Uh, it's just the same chip It's just the same tagger x1 chip Um underneath this heat sink here. Uh, what is noticeable though Is where where did I put that old heat sink? There it is. Um Is uh This is the original nintendo switch heat pipe and this is the new one Um for the OLED and it's much thinner. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's worse But uh, yeah That is interesting and um, the fan looks like it's slightly different. Let me lift this up here. I don't want to Break anything else more than I already did Uh, but you can see the fans the fan fins look a little bit different Um, the fan itself looks like it might be a little bit smaller Um, so that's something to consider Now how much further can we take this thing apart? How hard is it to get the board out? Good question Good question. What more do we have to take apart here? Um, looks like we have a few board screws All right on here. So we'll we'll we'll attempt to take the board out and get down to the screen Uh, we'll see how that goes. Uh, one thing I should be doing right now quick is disconnecting that battery Uh, so let's disconnect all the all the connectors here. We have uh The battery connector here All right, so here we have um the ribbon cable running like this, uh for the right the left rail And it kind of curls under and comes up and connects right there. I just connected the power I can't get this thing. I'm undone right now without some tweezers Um, let's see. Um, what else could we worry about here? So this is, um, interesting if this is the rail I'm curious like is this the why is the left rail all the way over here? Also This pcb Is really different. Um, I know like Austin Evans said this looks the same but look at this Okay, so yeah, this is the um micro sd card reader, which is a separate reader This is the micro sd card reader on the old switch Uh, it's here and it's kind of this giant pcb over here. We have the 32 gig memory module I think this is the 64 gig memory module It's still a separate board, but now it's connected with the sd card reader Interesting I wonder if that gives us faster speeds on the sd card That's very very interesting and this the more I look at it the more this yeah, this is definitely a uh The thing over here. So, um, even the even though I did get this one off It would not have been even close It would not have been even close to long enough to make that run so I think I'm just screwed with this, uh, this right joy con rail for For now, um It just is what it is. Um, I'm just not to be able to do anything about that that joy con rail Um, it's just not to the charge for now Not the end of the world, of course. Uh, this is the hazards of doing stuff like this Um, let's see if I can see anything else to take off Any other screws See, I think that's just holding it down to the board. I don't think that's Uh, am I gonna have to uh Ooh, those are not meant to be taken out. Those are punched in I'm not so sure I can so I'm not so sure I can go much lower Into the switch than I am right now. I wanted to get to the panel Uh, one thing we should do is look at the batteries quick While we're in here I can't get down to the panel level because it looks like they they made this thing They do not want people taking this thing apart. I cannot get past. Um, this part here because these are punched in See on the old switch you can unscrew these you can't do that on this one. So Um, that is unfortunate. Those are like riveted in Uh, and I don't have the tools here to take care of that So instead of breaking things take a look at these batteries here We have um rechargeable eleon battery. This is the hac 003. This is also an hac 003. This is a newer version of it. We uh use adr 622233 adl 808201 Uh rechargeable doesn't really seem to be any capacity differences. This is uh 4,310 million amp hours and this one is 4,310 million amp hours 16 watt hour battery 16 watt hour battery. So um, that is the breakdown of the internals of the switch OLED Well, um, as you can see I got quite the mess in front of me Multiple switches torn apart the switch OLED Is back together. Um, as I mentioned earlier, I did break the right rail I can still connect the joy con and it still will work with the switch I think it everything compared today that I wanted to although right now The right joy con isn't working the home button's not working That's a pain in the butt. Did I really break it break it? Oh boy. No, there it goes. It connected I just can't do it while it's connected to the rail That's interesting. Um, anyways, uh, that's my problem. Um, yeah, I broke my switch OLED It is what it is, uh, but it still works. We'll still be able to do some videos. Um, My general thoughts on this are as follows. Um, this is definitely the What the switch probably should have been back in 2017. Um, this screen size is just beautiful The biggest upgrade obviously is the screen and this screen is in in one word Stunning. Um, I know it's just OLED and I know OLED is not a new technology But seriously this kickstand, this is what the kickstand should have been the whole time. This kickstand is amazing You know, especially compared to the original it it's quite uh, a feat Um, I just like the overall feel the matte finish. I just feels more premium Um, it feels all metal. Uh, one thing I didn't answer earlier if you want to know the screen Is it glass? Is it plastic? This is a glass front screen. It is not a plastic front There is a thin film on it. That's related to the OLED but the screen itself It uses a glass front not a um, not a Plastic one that doesn't mean you shouldn't use a screen protector. Um, the dock will scratch your switch potentially They didn't really do anything to improve it. They just made it shiny on the inside But as far as I could tell all the edges are still the same. It's still pretty rough They didn't really do anything that's going to make that experience better Um, so in the grand scheme, uh, do I think the switch OLED is worth it? I don't know I can't really review it right now. I haven't had enough time with it Uh, today was mostly all about comparing Uh, doing the best comparisons that I can possibly do at the moment with this I have some other tools coming in to do some stuff later But really I want to spend, you know a bit more time with this thing And uh, get back to you guys if you guys have any questions or thoughts about the switch OLED Go ahead and leave them down in the description I will do a follow-up video answering as many questions as I can after spending some time Uh, some more time with it because today was so focused on comparisons Now I just want to take this thing for a general spin Not worry about cross-comparing to the original switch or the switch light Not worry about any of that Just actually just play this thing like I would play my other switch and just see if I even notice That it's a bigger screen if I even care about the OLED experience if I care about anything about this Um, that is something that we'll have to bring to you in a future video because again Maybe Even though all the comparisons and everything might make this look like it's a worthwhile investment Maybe it's not after I've played it for a while and I go, you know what it just feels like a normal switch And if it feels like a normal switch, do you really need to upgrade? Probably not so we'll have to wait and see but for right now. Hey the thing works Um, it's beautiful and it's definitely the best looking switch in my opinion I used to think the animal crossing one was but this I mean this dock I don't know something about it's just really really neat So thank you guys so much for tuning in Uh, this is I guess the ultimate nintendo switch OLED comparison video Yet there's more comparisons to come more impressions to come and more content to come based around this platform Thank you guys for tuning in be sure to check out mason comrad for all of your thumbnail needs Um, be sure to subscribe to enter our giveaway and I will catch you guys in the next video