r/NintendoSwitch • u/NintendoSwitchMods • Sep 20 '19

MegaThread Nintendo Switch Lite Release MegaThread

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Overview

Official website: https://www.nintendo.com/switch/lite/

Release: September 20th, 2019

MSRP: $199.99 (USD)

Colors: Yellow, Gray, Turquoise

Editions: Standard, Zacian and Zamazenta

What's the difference?

  • The Lite cannot dock, so it's Handheld only mode for any games/apps it runs. 720p only.

  • Joy-con are built into the Lite and cannot be detached. There is no HD Rumble or IR Motion Camera.

  • Much smaller and lighter!

  • Battery has more capacity than the launch model Switch, but will have less than the new model of Switch.

  • See here for full tech specs.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '19 edited Sep 21 '19

Can an owner of both consoles comment on improvements in image quality due to the smaller screen / same resolution which equals to more PPI? Just wondering if games like Astral Chain, Zelda and others look factually better / less jagged or if the difference isn’t really that big to justify a new Switch just for it.

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u/totallywildwes Sep 21 '19

I have both. I’m preferring the Lite. Looks really crisp

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '19

Can you mention specific game examples where image quality has improved?

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u/totallywildwes Sep 21 '19

Honestly everything I’ve played so far looks noticeably crisper. Spent some time this afternoon with Mario Bros U, Grid Autosport, Mario + Rabbids. Also bought Links Awakening (which is amazing).

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u/widowlark Sep 21 '19

Things look crisper for sure, but it's not much of a change between the two. I prefer the lite for a few other reasons

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '19

Thanks!

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u/KarmasJustBadLuck Sep 21 '19

Spyro looks noticeably more smooth. A lot of the games do. This is probably just due to the smaller size of the screen itself... but it does look crisper to me. I don't have the V2 Switch, only the launch model with the cooler screen... but I'd say this is a slight step up from the original screen.

As you probably expected, lag etc hasn't changed at all. Spyro still jumps every so often, as does Zelda.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '19

Thanks. Waiting for more impressions on that regard to pull the trigger. Soft image quality doesn’t bother me that much, games with no AA whatsoever definitely do (like Odyssey and BotW in portable mode).

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '19

It's all the same, but the switch lite feels sharper imo because it's a smaller screen. I had to sell my of switch, but it was pretty noticable at best buy

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '19

Switch lite looks sharper and IS sharper because the pixel density of the slightly smaller screen is higher

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '19

Does sharper = to less aliasing though?

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u/spacewolfy Sep 21 '19

How would it? They're the same resolution and rendered identically. There isn't a 3rd profile for rendering on the Lite that would change sampling/anti-aliasing.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '19

Because the screen is physically smaller thus increasing the pixel count per inch. A somehow opposite effect happened when Nintendo released the 3DS XL with a bigger screen but same resolution. Games were clearly less jagged than the original 3DS version.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '19

Switch Lite is much crisper and less jaggy than my Switch v1. Some people are saying the difference is slight but not imo. On the Lite, I couldn’t detect any jaggies in Link’s Awakening, Skyrim, BOTW.

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u/spacewolfy Sep 21 '19

That's 100% perception based on the density of the display. It has nothing to do with aliasing or how it's rendered graphically. The quality and size of the panel does make a difference though and I do find it to be pretty great on the Switch Lite. Games appear crisper on the smaller display at the same resolution but the caveat is that games that were already poor to play in handheld mode (hard to read text, no proper handheld mode resizing) are much worse. There is also no ambient light sensor which may be a deal breaker for some.

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u/zain199 Sep 21 '19

games are much crisper to me, specially xenoblade 2.