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Nintendo Switch 2 Slammed for Poor Display–120 Hz with 30 FPS Response Times

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21 points kristianp | 2 comments | 26 Jun 25 21:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.8s | source
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zapzupnz ◴[26 Jun 25 22:50 UTC] No.44392233[source]▶
The comments on that article are wild. They're of people who seemingly play tech specs rather than actual games.

All that mixed in with plenty of people spouting some of the talking points about the screen protector, how the screen in supposedly fragile, etc. that also applied to the Switch OLED. All in all, a lot of unjustifiable, manufactured rage from people who neither own the console nor ever intended to get one.

For $500, were people expecting to put an LG G5 in their backpacks?

Also, I know that we don't editorialise titles on HN, but I wish we could for this: "30 FPS response times" comes directly from the article, but they mean "30 ms", not "30 FPS".

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1. DanielHB ◴[27 Jun 25 07:34 UTC] No.44394566[source]▶
I dunno, Nintendo is going out of their way to promote >60hz >1080p games and HDR.

They care about the people that care about that. The people who care about that care about display latency and ghosting too. The screen is significantly worse than the predecessor in the latency aspect while they market it as being so much better.

If anything display latency and ghosting is more important than upscaling 1080p and HDR.

At least they do make a clear distinction of OLED vs non-OLED because that is another big point and at least the marketing is not deceiving on that front.

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2. frollogaston ◴[27 Jun 25 19:18 UTC] No.44399477[source]▶
I was going to say this too because of friends who told me they care about the screen, but then I looked at Nintendo's own marketing for this, and I only see minor mentions of "better performance." Like the promo video is mostly about Mario Kart 9 or whatever.