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Hardstuck-Platinum on 07 June 2025
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Pemalite said:
Hardstuck-Platinum said:

Nah I'm sure it will still look better on Switch 2 even with the worse screen because of the lower resolution and lower image quality it has on Switch 1. Even though it looks good for a Switch 1 game, it has a bit of a washed out and blurry look compared to Switch 2. It will definately make for an interesting comparison that's for sure and if it does look better on Switch OLED than Switch 2 than I think Nintendo have made a mistake with the Switch 2 screen they chose. 

More to visuals than just resolution.

We have already seen there is very little "graphical effects change" with Metroid Prime 4 between Switch 1 and Switch 2, which is by design in order to scale it up to 4k 60fps on the Switch 2.

It will have more vibrant colours and deeper inky blacks on the Switch 1 OLED... To assert that the OLED will have a more "washed out" look is literally a big fat lie and literally flies in the face of already established evidence and comparisons between the two displays.

OLED obliterates LCD in terms of colour and contrast. It's a zero contest.

I don't think you grasp how much of a gulf there is between LCD and OLED when it comes to colour and contrast.

Obviously if you are someone who never removes their console from the Dock, the Switch 2 release will be the superior version... 

But if you have highly contrasty games like Metroid Prime 4 or Ori and the Will of the Wisps? You can't go past that inky OLED panel, it just pops and looks incredible.

I think you misunderstood me slightly as I didn't say that it was the OLED screen that would make it look washed out. I meant that the washed out look was intrinsically part of the Switch 1 game. If you look at the side by sides it's pretty noticeable that there isn't as sharp of a contrast as the Switch 2 version. I assume it's because it's less stressful on the hardware to produce a washed out and blurry image than it is to produce a sharp and vibrantly contrasting image. That's just what they had to do to get it running on the very weak Switch 1 hardware I'm guessing. So to summarise, with the OLED you've got an intrinsically blurry and washed out game on a beautiful screen, and on the Switch 2 you've got a sharp and vibrant game running on a duller screen.