Is the new OLED Nintendo Switch made from METAL?! - Durability Test!

the nintendo switch oled edition nintendo has never been one to rush into things yeah xbox and playstation might have already come out with all new gaming systems but nintendo has a little more old school if it ain't broke don't fix it vibe they have however decided to grace us with an all-new larger oled display and it's time to see if it's durable let's get started [Music] [Applause] [Music] it's always a better idea for me to test the durability of a device on purpose so you won't have to find out the hard way on accident it might also be my imagination but right out of the box this new nintendo switch feels heavier there's also a new full-fledged flap of a kickstand traversing the back panel already a substantial improvement over the previous toothpick of a kickstand the new oled screen is slightly larger than the old lcd version by almost a full inch kind of nice the seven inch display is still capped at 720p while playing in handheld mode and 1080p when docked up to a tv same as it was when the switch was originally released four and a half years ago and i don't want to sound bitter or anything but nintendo could have probably saved the planet by dropping breath of the wild 2 in 2020 or at least saved everyone from boredom if we really wanted people to stay home for long periods of time they should have released that game now it is possible to make oled displays from plastic like we saw in the z fold but usually small oled screens like we see on cell phones have a layer of glass on top and with this switch's subtle weight gain glass is what i'm hoping for we can lay out the mohs scale of hardness which helps us differentiate between different materials levels two or three would be plastic 5 or 6 would be glass and level 8 or 9 would be sapphire if we ever get a switch with a level 10 diamond screen well it'll probably cost more than 350 bucks but unfortunately what we're seeing here are scratches at a level three with deeper grooves at a level four which means this new oled screen has a surface layer of plastic looks like my battery is a little low fun side note if your switch ever needs a little juice on the go whatever power bank you decide to use needs to have a power delivery function the pd standard is the only one that can charge up the switch while playing it everything else might still work and give the switch some juice it'll just be way slower my channel sponsor anchor has one of these for like 30 bucks i'll link down in the description where were we oh yeah plastic screens just you know once again it's good to know that the oled screen is soft so that we can avoid putting it in situations where it can be damaged by coins or keys or other metal objects nintendo has said that the screen itself is made from glass and that this plastic film which feels very permanent is an anti-scattering adhesive layer which is there to help keep the glass shards from scattering if the display ever does shatter kind of like the laminated glass on a vehicle windshield and it is probably a good thing to have if you really do want that glass feeling though and make your switch more resilient dbrand does have a glass screen protector that's pretty easy to install and it sits perfectly inside this little outer bezel it's almost like the switch was made for this extra layer however if you really want the protection of glass but the feeling of plastic you can always put another plastic screen protector over the top of your glass screen protector and you can protect that protector with another protector and that protector with another protector [Music] and that protector with another protector it's like a glass and plastic sandwich that just keeps going indefinitely kind of like our weight for breath of the wild too after about 40 layers or so the optical clarity starts to become subpar but my switch is pretty super protected pretty sure i now have the most protected switch on the planet i've just exponentially upgraded nintendo's glass and plastic sandwich i'm mostly kidding about the mile high screen protector thing but dbrand's glass really does take things to the next level especially when somehow they've managed to have the glass layer on the outside so it feels nice while if it ever does break the shards still stay connected science nintendo's probably taking notes i'll leave a link for these down in the description now for the joy cons nintendo has said that these joy-cons are unchanged from the original version but then they've also said that they have changed them up a bit so i'm not sure which is true the buttons are made from plastic and still have the lettering inlaid all the way through the button itself not just printed on top i can slice the top of the letter x off entirely and the x still remains part of my letter x is gone and now i can give it to you x gong give it to you for short the attention to detail and quality is pretty impressive down below the letter buttons we have the joystick which is still coated in a thick layer of rubber and from a durability perspective externally it seems super solid it's the internal durability of these joy-cons though that still remains to be seen if you catch my drift the joy-con housing is made from plastic what's not plastic however is the border around the edge of the screen nintendo has finally incorporated metal into the switch design super glad they did this since four years ago during the same test one of the joy cons did snap off it gives me some hope that maybe this oled switch will survive flipping the switch over here on the back we have the super large full-length multi-positional kickstand above that kickstand is still plastic but the kickstand itself metal yeah this switch might cost fifty dollars more than the original switch did four years ago but with this oled screen and new metal components i think that price increase is totally justified can't let a metal surface pass by without an art class with jerry as soon as you can tell what i'm drawing let me know down in the comments this one's a tough one not many people are gonna get it people have always asked me where i learned to draw so good asking questions like hey jerry did you study with van gogh or picasso and no i didn't i just like practice a lot like yeah you see the finished product and are super proud of my effort but what you don't see is how many oled switches i had to go through to perfect this drawing where do you think i got all those screen protectors practice makes perfect my friends the internal fan has kicked on probably because we are still charging or maybe because my art is hot fire i'm curious to see how many people can guess who this is let me know down in the comments the kickstand itself is still very much attached to the switch body and won't be falling off on its own just like the last one would so that's pretty cool i do gotta say though that i'm a pretty big fan of the vibrance on this oled panel me personally i play my switch docked 99 of the time so i won't ever really get to enjoy this screen but for someone who plays their switch on the go or undocked this would be a pretty solid upgrade oled screens have more contrast between lights and darks and just have brighter colors in general which is great for video games the screen did last for about 35 seconds under the heat from my lighter before the pixels turned white and did not recover the plastic film on top however did not melt which is interesting if you remember four years ago the whole screen was made from plastic and did melt quite a bit i'll unplug anchor's power bank we definitely have enough juice to finish the bin test the top of the screen bezel is made from metal but the rest of everything else though is plastic like the buttons four years ago the weakest point of the nintendo switch was where the joy cons joined with the body this metal rail was screwed into some weaker metal and the screws just popped out with the threads they were attached to when the switch was bent the joy cons themselves are made from plastic but that's not the weak point this year though it looks like the extra metal lip from the screen's bezel is supporting that rail things are looking quite a bit more rigid and stronger the only way to know for sure though is with the bin test there is still flex and all still mostly at the joint where the joy-cons join the body flipping around at the back we see the same thing the console itself though the body with this glass screen and long metal kickstand isn't bending at all it might be game over for link but definitely not for the switch the nintendo switch oled edition is solid nintendo has upgraded the screen and the structure and i'm impressed would i go out and buy a whole new switch if my current switch was working fine i don't know that's hard to say with all the structural improvements though and the nicer oled screen i am surprised that the price only jumped by fifty dollars nice work nintendo the only way it could be cooler is if we could see the insides from the outsides luckily like always i got you covered with my teardown skin from dbrand these are the exact internals of the joycons now displayed on the outside for our visual enjoyment we have a skin for the console as well i just don't want to cover up my art just yet as always links are down in the description what's your favorite game for the switch let me know down in the comments personally if you couldn't tell i like breath of the wild and that weird string flippy game that i forgot the name of unravel or something that was fun hit that subscribe button if you haven't already come hang out with me on instagram and twitter and thanks a ton for watching i'll see you around

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Keywords: Nintendo Switch OLED, New nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch Pro, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo, BOTW, BOTW2, Glass nintendo Switch, OLED display, Link, metal nintendo switch, gaming, video games, video game, mario, new switch, switch oled

Id: jHwEkX9fFaA

Length: 10min 48sec (648 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 22 2021