According to several sources, the second generation Nintendo Switch would have an LCD panel and not OLED. This hypothesis may anger some players, but it is not necessarily such bad news as that.
In preparation for months, the Nintendo Switch is becoming more and more talked about as its announcement becomes clearer (in January 2025 according to some sources, in the spring according to others). The console, one of which mockup seems to have recently leaked, could have a notable improvement in terms of gameplay. This improvement would, however, be counterbalanced by what is likely to be perceived, by some, as a decline in terms of display.
In this case, it is the leaker Deck Wizard, on X, which gives us information. The person concerned reports information that we have recently been able to discover from other sources. According to him, the new Nintendo console would notably have larger buttons, three colors at launch, but also and above all Joy-Con, magnetic this time, using the Hall effect on the joysticks.
This type of pads has the particularity of using magnetic fields, and no longer simple mechanical potentiometers, to gain both precision and durability. The transition to this technology (increasingly common on the market) would constitute a major advance for the Switch 2. And for good reason, the latter would thus definitively get rid of the “drift” problems having impacted the experience of many players on the current console.
Goodbye OLED, return to LCD?
Still according to Deck Wizard, Nintendo would on the other hand choose a “return” to LCD technology for the screen of its Switch 2… instead of the OLED screen used on a separate model since 2021, and that the ‘found more and more frequently on portable Windows consoles.
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This strategy could nevertheless be relevant from Nintendo’s point of view. Returning to a more traditional LCD panel for the Switch 2 would allow the company to reduce its manufacturing costs (to better control the final price of the console), but also to prepare for the subsequent marketing of an OLED version. more upscale. For the first generation of Switch, this approach was rather successful for Nintendo on a commercial level.
Finally, we note that a return to LCD technology is not necessarily such bad news. Some competing devices, such as the ASUS ROG Ally X, for example, have very high-quality IPS LCD screens, offering excellent brightness, optimal readability, and a high refresh rate.
Finally, LCD screens have the advantage of being infinitely less sensitive to burn-in problems than OLED panels. An advantage which also deserves to be taken into account, even if it is true that manufacturers have been able to put in place, over time, effective prevention technologies to combat this problem.
