Nintendo’s fresh-off-the-press Switch 2? Man, its screen is—let’s just say—something else. This Chinese reviewer, Chimolog, did a deep dive and threw out numbers that meant, well, not much to me at first. Average response time? A whopping 17.06 ms. I’d love to know how they got there, but details? Nada. Anyway, this Switch 2 is rocking a 1080p, 120 Hz, 7.9-inch LCD. Sounds cool until you get those number-crunching glasses on.
Here’s where it gets kinda wild. Best response time? 8.88 ms. But flip the coin, and you’re squinting at a snail-paced 27.46 ms. Average out at 17 ms, and yeah, you can almost see the pixels throwing a party trying to change colors. Result? An underwhelming 60 Hz (60 FPS) gaming experience. I mean, Chimolog stacked it up against plain old 60 Hz and 75 Hz monitors, and surprise surprise—it didn’t just come last; it was nowhere to be found on the same track!
Now, we’re talking the next line-up monitor, the Innocn M2U 27 Mini-LED. That one’s clocking a sweet 11.06 ms response time. It’s a monitor showdown, and the Switch 2 didn’t quite make it off the starting blocks.
Look—Nintendo clearly focused elsewhere for this screen. Chimolog’s notes mention contrast, brightness, color—basically stuff that sounds impressive in a spec sheet. Contrast ratio of 1309:1, brightness doing its thing uniformly at 1.54%, and peak brightness hitting 303 cd/m². Colors? Oh, it covers everything. 100% sRGB, 99.6% DCI-P3, and more. But text? Apparently, it does this funky wave thing with RGB, making it blurrier than my eyesight without coffee. Common issue with OLEDs too—it’s all coming together, or… not really.
And what about 120 Hz? Who knows. Chimolog didn’t fully test that speed demon side. Odds are better with higher refresh rates usually, but with these numbers? Your guess is as good as mine. Probably wouldn’t cut it for a seamless Blur free gaming marathon.
Even with all this info, and when you think it couldn’t get any slower—news flash: It does worse than the original Switch. Ouch. Chimolog or someone else, I forget, mentioned a tortoise-paced 33.3ms average for the Switch 2. Yet here we are, it’s selling like hotcakes, breaking records. 3.5 million in four days! Say what you will, but that Nintendo magic works. Gamers are stuck with this screen unless an OLED knight in shining armor rides in soon.
So, wrapping this jumble of tech talk—anyway gosh, who knew a screen could become the headline? Keep gaming, Nintendo fans. At least we can still enjoy those beloved classics, one pixel at a time.
