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The Switch 2 finally erases the handheld compromise
Step into the future of hybrid gaming as we deliver our comprehensive hands-on review of the Nintendo Switch 2! After extensive testing, we're thrilled to share our genuine reactions to Nintendo's newest console – and spoiler alert: this isn't just an incremental update.
The hardware improvements are immediately noticeable. From the larger, brighter 8-inch LCD screen that surprisingly outperforms the previous OLED model, to the brilliantly redesigned magnetic Joy-Con attachment system that eliminates the infamous wobble, every aspect feels more premium. The speakers deliver unexpectedly impressive surround sound, the dock is more functional, and even the UI has received thoughtful refinements while maintaining familiarity.
But the real magic happens when you start playing games. We dive deep into Cyberpunk 2077's performance on the system – a game that delivers an astonishingly immersive experience that genuinely blurs the line between portable and home console gaming. We also explore how backward compatibility breathes new life into your existing Switch library, with faster load times and improved performance even without specific optimization patches.
Most importantly, we discuss how the Switch 2 finally eliminates the compromise that has traditionally defined handheld gaming. This isn't a secondary gaming device anymore – it's positioned as a legitimate primary console that happens to be portable. Whether you're playing docked in 4K/60fps or taking your gaming on the go, the experience remains consistently premium.
Join us as we explore everything from the revamped Pro Controller to the controversial "virtual game card" system, and hear our thoughts on launch title Mario Kart World. Whether you're on the fence about upgrading or just curious about Nintendo's latest innovation, this deep-dive review will answer all your burning questions about gaming's newest hybrid powerhouse.
We mash genres. We pitch games. You question our sanity.
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Hello and welcome to the Unofficial Controller Podcast, your weekly gaming podcast, episode number 271. With me, george, this week, joined by a fresh-faced and ever-returning RGT, fresh from the Alpine slopes. Here's Switch 2 to my Switch Poo. How's it going?
Speaker 2:Very well, thank you. I don't remember being in the Alpine slopes, but you know.
Speaker 1:Well, how else did you get that sunburnt face?
Speaker 2:I have no idea. I think it might just be dirt, Because I haven't had a bath this month yet.
Speaker 1:So Standing too near the grill pan, I reckon. You love to see the sausages spit. Let's not mess about, let's get straight into it Now. What have you been playing?
Speaker 2:Pretty much mostly GTA 4. Pretty much mostly GTA 4.
Speaker 1:For those that don't know, that's our playthrough game. Is this because you're excluding the Switch 2 games, or is this predominantly what you've been playing, even though you've got a brand new console?
Speaker 2:This is my main console. So we were saying we were going to do a playthrough each month, but I think that's probably a bit ambitious. So we were going to do a play for each month, but I think, um, that's probably a bit ambitious. So we're gonna play till we're finished both finished, and then that's me and saying geef, by the way, on our discord, and then, once we're finished, we'll announce a new gen 7 game.
Speaker 2:So maybe go with xbox 360 next time, but anyway, I am, so just get me come on, here we go hold it together, son, come on so you're just gonna what are you gonna move on to? Um, I don't know yet. We haven't decided, but once we're finished the game we'll announce the next game. So then, if anyone would like to join with us on the playthrough, they they can, as a few of them have on the gta 4 one at the moment how far have the listeners?
Speaker 1:have they all kind of concurrent with you or?
Speaker 2:um, we set mission markers. Um, I think we're a bit all over the place at the minute because when we actually done the first week of this, I was off for a week, so I, yeah, I hammered home a bit, so to speak.
Speaker 1:Um, yeah, I wondered if you're all gonna get around and beat it simultaneously until it was finished yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:well, I was getting a bit earlier than the others, so I was at Mission 30 before anyone else was anywhere near.
Speaker 1:So they've been sort of edging along and you've just sort of.
Speaker 2:Well, I've just gone hell for leather at it, which got me a bit ahead, which I did apologise for, and then I was at Mission 60 before anyone else Hang on a minute Gamer, you got a bit ahead of you.
Speaker 1:got a bit ahead, did you?
Speaker 2:yeah, yourself but I'm now on mission 76. I've technically only got 12 missions left and I finished the game. But I will say and I know I spoke about this last time I was home but I mean, what a game. I love this game. Anyway, it's my third or fourth time completing that, but what a game I mean. And honestly, george, it got me thinking. I don't know if they make them like this anymore. I don't know if games are made like this anymore well, here's one for you.
Speaker 1:I woke up from a fever dream and found us myself on the show's discord and um, while I was on there, I noticed that you weren't just playing through the stories in the missions, you're out there doing everything yep, yep, um.
Speaker 2:Is it going to?
Speaker 1:include online, or are you just going to stop short the platinum?
Speaker 2:I don't think you can. I think the online's dead unless you go onto a special server. Um can?
Speaker 1:you not do that?
Speaker 2:I could do, I suppose. I mean I've been ticking a few of the trophies off. I didn't get originally. Um, I've done the Jacob missions, which one of them was you had a timed it was like a drug dealer missions and you had to get to this area and that was so tight for time. If you caught any street furniture or a car, that was it. You were out of time, you had to be quick but eventually done it and then I'd done all of which was great fun I'd done.
Speaker 2:Once you um, do all the brucey missions. Your favorite guy, brucey, uh, once you've done all the brucey missions, he puts you in contact on text with a guy called steve and he texts you through cars to steal for him, um, and that's a pacific car in a certain area. So you have to go to that area, find the car, take it back to his garage. But your rewards in money are done on the condition of the car. So you want to get it back there. It's perfect condition. I think there's only two I didn't get back perfect. There's 30 to collect. So I spent quite a few hours doing those. But I'm on like $700,000, $800,000 I've got in the bank just from doing these cars. So then that pinged another trophy clear at them. Um, and I've also been doing the assassins missions, which I don't think there's many of them, seven or eight, I think, um, but I've been doing those as well, as well as the story missions a lot of times.
Speaker 2:Mission 76, um, and it just is like we were talking off air during the week. Um, I've got a new tv, 120, 120 hertz TV, but it's got built-in AI on, so you don't have to set your channels up. It automatically knows what's plugged in and it will set the best, the screen up and sound for that console or Blu-ray player, whatever you're putting in. And the PS3, obviously you've got your frame rate dips at times. It will do the generation. It can't do nothing about that. But the picture, the quality of it is phenomenal. And I was just driving around looking at it and I even sent to my other mate, I sent him pictures saying this is PS3 running on my new TV and he's all that looks phenomenal. I was like, yeah, I know, this is stunning and it's just.
Speaker 2:You were were right, I will hand it to you. You were right, um, you said to me all along gta 4 it's a better game than gta 5. It's it's more soul and it's more life in the city. The story's better. That's a real rags to riches old school and I thought do you know what? You are absolutely bang on with that and it is fantastic.
Speaker 2:I'm going to be playing again tonight. I can't wait to play again. I've loved every single minute of it. It is absolutely brilliant. Yeah, can't fault it If they do like we was talking discussing on discord and that this week, and if, if the rumors are true and they're doing a remake, slash, remaster of it. Um, yeah, I think there's going to be a lot of new people introduced to this game that haven't played this before, dismissed it or was never. You know, it was a bit too young to play at the time. I think there's going to be a lot of new audience introduced to this and think, wow, this, this is a good game because it still holds up very, very well. So, yeah, been absolutely loving that. I've also been playing a bit more of a new hidden gem I found for next week's show. So that is for next week's show, because this week's show is a bit….
Speaker 1:That was meant to be this week.
Speaker 2:No, it wasn't. You just made that up to make me look bad.
Speaker 1:I don't need to do anything no, you don't.
Speaker 2:Uh, my lawyers do what I um, and then all other than that it's just been pretty much since thursday as of recording um, testing the switch to going through bits no, we won't hear anything about that okay, I won't I won't.
Speaker 1:I won't hear a thing about it.
Speaker 2:So other than that, that is pretty much all I've been playing. Young Georgie boy. So what have you been playing?
Speaker 1:Well, before I rip into what I've been playing, a little bit of housekeeping. So this week we have got the Switch 2 review, which is great news, and we're going to major on that. Obviously, this week we've had some Games Fest and a load of other good stuff go on. So we will round all that up and bring you one of our classic bumper news episodes next week. So if you're part of the Unofficial Controller podcast family, you know that we bring you these bumper episodes where we literally drag every single morsel of news out of the air and present it in an episode. We will not leave a stone unturned, but this week we want to major on the Switch too. Before we get there, it's only right and proper that I mention that I've been playing a little bit of Lord of the Rings, the Third Age on PlayStation 2.
Speaker 2:Ooh yeah, how's that going? You must be close now, aren't you?
Speaker 1:Draw ever closer. I think late 60s percent. We hit a bit of a brick wall in terms of not having enough potions and lotions. Do you need a potion?
Speaker 2:What did it have? A bit of a ramp up in difficulty, or has it been a smooth sort of?
Speaker 1:Not really a ramp up in difficulty, just. Well, I suppose, yes, a ramp up in difficulty, but more a just the developer going right. Let's just ramp it right up for no reason at this point, to try and throttle them up a little bit, because you know we'd race through it.
Speaker 1:And as soon as you get to Osgiliath I think it's called the latter, maybe third of that we'd been squeezed up until then, ran out of potions, all that sort of good stuff and, yeah, things started to get a bit more difficult. We died a few times. So we jumped back to the start of the game and literally walked through. Um, it felt longer than this when we first played it through, but we literally walked from start to finish. And well, we skipped maria, um, but yeah, and had a few battles with some low level enemies, just to sort of balance people out, mix, mix the team up, learn some new skills, because if you don't play them you don't get the skills. If you play them and don't use their certain craft, you don't get that skill unlocked. And it unlocks more and more skills as you do it, or spells, or sword craft, as they call it. So we then arrived back at the front line much better prepared. Um, we had a whole host of king's fall leaves. We've done some crafting and found some bags of old toby along the way. If you know this game, you know that's a good thing. Ap and hp all in one, um, yeah, it's nice We've moved it on a little bit for a ringwraith on one of its dragon thingies the other night and then had to subsequently fight four more in a row after that. So that's where the game lets itself down and where I say the developer like, yes, there were multiple ringwraiths, but I don't necessarily want to fight their dragons one after another.
Speaker 1:And again, my comment last week could be in the festival cleanup team you arrive on the Mondays, everyone's leaving going. Oh, that was great. You know, david Bowie came back from the dead and he wrote a firework into the air while mic'd up and singing Space Oddity. It was incredible. While you're picking up what you think is a can of Carlsberg but to be honest, it's half full of someone's urine Maybe a dirty sort of dust-ridden David Bowie T-shirt on the floor so that you can dust off and maybe wear if Mumsy gives it a wash. But yes, it's as close to greatness as you're going to get and that's what brings a third age, and that sounds like I'm doing it dirty, but I'm not.
Speaker 1:It's still a great game.
Speaker 2:Going to see it through, do you think? Completion?
Speaker 1:Oh, absolutely, yeah, I'm compelled to. Now it feels like such a. I was playing it with Rachel. I said do you know what? This? You know the only thing? Because it starts up and it gives you the THX intro. Oh, wow, oh, wow, wow. You know, this feels like a movie. They put the effort in and then you get the studio logo for Lord of the Rings come up and it's like, oh, that feels special. And then good, on your Saran sound as well, I suppose exactly. And it comes up and it's like Lord of the Rings in almost the most basic way, with a blue background of Minas Tirith or something in the background. And I said, oh, shame about this, this is what I'll do back. It feels a bit naff on the front end. And she went no, it doesn't. If you think about it. We've had THX, we've had the movie intro, and doesn't this feel like a DVD menu? And I was like, yeah, yeah, it does.
Speaker 1:It really does brilliant a very 2005, absolutely brilliant, and then bar some Switch 1 games in readiness for this week, just to sort of cast in my mind as they were that moment and to wrap the Switch up in its mummy-like case. One last time I did cry a little tear, you know, as I kind of packed her back up in her case. She's been an absolute stalwart for me and I'm a big, you know, lover of the portal. But with the portal you're always taking that roll of the dice that the hotel is going to have good enough internet to make it work. You're taking that roll of the dice that it's not.
Speaker 1:You get to the hotel and it's oh, it's tenner a night to use the wi-fi. You get 30 minutes free and after that it's like oh, switch was always like here I am, tiny little case, just unzip me, you know you want to touch me. I said okay, okay, okay and it's there, no questions, put the cart in. You don't need the internet to make it work. And, as we'll get into in later in the episode, that's probably going to be the the thing that pushes the switch to up in my um case so, with all that said and done, let's segue straight into the Switch 2 review.
Speaker 1:Now may I wax lyrical, and then you can jump on and off, and then we'll switch to you, we'll pirouette to you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, or do you want to start with a bit of hardware? Go through the hardware first, compare that between us and then we'll jump into software and bits and pieces.
Speaker 1:Okay, get your hardware out. I mean I've got Switch 2. What have you between us? And then we'll jump into software and bits and pieces. Okay, get your hardware out. I mean I've got a Switch 2.
Speaker 2:What have you got? Well, I've got Switch 2. I mean, that's a. I knew you'd say that, so I had it on standby. It's a prop. Here's one I made earlier Brilliant. Yeah, I must admit I was surprised in a good way when unboxing Switch 2. It's got some weight to it, which I'm very impressed with. I was dubious of the Joy-Cons and their new magnetic thing, but you've got nothing to worry about with that so far. I mean, it's early days, obviously, we know that, so don't forget everyone. Everyone's got different opinions on the switch to. These are just ours what we think of it.
Speaker 1:So there's no right or wrong.
Speaker 2:Other people's opinion I know you don't looking for clicks yes but I think the the joy con connection and the magnet and a little and a little bumper you pull to release is genius. I think it's brilliant. It's very secure, way more secure than the rails. Feels really good. The new size is good. I've got big old hands with sausage fingers so bigger Joy-Cons is way better for me. Plays really well. I know people are saying the analog sticks are the same as what's in the switch, but whether they've refined them or what I don't know because they feel better to me.
Speaker 1:Um, I feel nicer to use um, I think I could come around and sell you a?
Speaker 2:um like a suit made out fresh air yeah, probably um, and I know what your lot of sales as well, so no doubt um, probably. And I know what you're like sales as well, so no doubt. Also, screen my previous switch from a Switch One was an OLED, so I've compared brightness of the screens to see what they are.
Speaker 1:Very, very close.
Speaker 2:But you were correct, george, the LCD is brighter.
Speaker 1:I don't like being this right because it's almost posting me up as some sort of untouchable gaming celebrity. I don't like this steady.
Speaker 2:But no, you were right. You were 100% right, and I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1:I'm always right and that's what I write about those haters for clicks, true.
Speaker 2:I jumped in on the switch. I'm always right and that's what I'm right about those haters for clicks. Yeah, true, I jumped in on the Switch Lite and then went to an OLED. I never had an OG Switch, but when I saw comparison videos of the Switch Lite to the original Switch, it made the original Switch screen look almost yellowy, a bit dull and yellowy how dare you. But then when I. But then when I got, then when I got the oled, it then made the switch light look off. Not perfectly white on your home screen looks slightly yellow and not as bright as the oled. Now the switch 2 has now done that to the oled. When I compare them, the oled looks slightly yellowed, not as close. It is close, but it's definitely brighter on the Switch 2, plus, you've got that 8-inch screen which so far, with what I've played in handheld, is a very good screen LCD, obviously, not an OLED, but it's, like you said, lcd.
Speaker 2:Technology's moved on since the original Switch. It's very good from what I've done so far, what I've played um dock wise, obviously now the dock's got the built-in fan. It's a bit chunkier. Um, you've got your two usbs on there as well. Um, similar setup. You know you pop the switch and you're playing a game and it comes up your your TV. Away you go. So yeah, I'm impressed with that. It's still. It's bigger than the original dock, but it's still got that. It's still quite sleek. You know I'm a bit tight for space where I've got mine but slots in a little gap there nice, you know, you don't need a massive unit to put it in.
Speaker 2:So overall, hardware wise, I think it plays well. Wise, um, I think it plays well. Um, I think it looks good. I think the screen's good. I think the dock's good, um, overall, I'm very impressed, even with the stand. I think the stand's sturdy, that's that new sort of u-shaped stand um, I think it's very good. You've got the extra usb on the top so you can now sit it down and charge it rather than having to do what I done with my little, my little horny stand on my mark one. So every, every little thing has been refined. I think they've. They've looked I know you're gonna laugh at the horny stand I think every, every little thing they've looked at and they've refined it. They've done the little you know refinements to make it that that you know, almost an ultimate handheld console. And and I'm very impressed. I'm very impressed, to be honest.
Speaker 1:Hmm.
Speaker 2:What about you? Hardware-wise, what do you think? Because we had a little unboxing together, so come on.
Speaker 1:Let me tell you from the minute I got it in my hands. First of all, I was impressed with the size of the surprise and impressed that's why I said suppressed With the size of the box. I thought it was compact, it was nice, the branding on the front was on point. We've obviously seen it all, but to get it in the flesh, in your hands, it was good feeling yep um. In terms of the, the unboxing experience was also nice.
Speaker 2:I thought it was good where even your delivery box you opened up had mario in and the red inside. Before you took the Switch box out, I thought that was quite a nice little touch as well.
Speaker 1:The whole thing I thought was nice the trays inside, as you say, getting it out the slimmest of the screen Initially, the Switch itself.
Speaker 2:There we go, the joy-cons Delivery box. Look, that's not even the main Switch box. I didn't get that.
Speaker 1:But I bought things from the Switch that's not even the main switch box. I didn't get that. Well, why would I have that? I didn't get it from my Nintendo oh yeah, oh well, ebay and it's a great console to be fair everything about it that I've touched has been as felt like an upgrade.
Speaker 1:The dash, though not completely reworked, feels fresh. There are some questions, which we'll get onto when we get into the UI, that I have about that. But yeah, overall the Joy-Cons feel snappy. To be honest, if we are being genuinely honest, I've always found playing the Switch with the Joy-Cons either side of the screen very jerky, very jerky in terms of player movement and control. You're all over the shop and there's no nice way of saying it. I don't know whether it's the way I hold the controllers or what, but I have noticed when other people play they're kind of jerking the right stick around because they feel I don't know whether it's because they're short throw, I don't know whether it's because they're on the the very extremes of the console. It's just something that I've been aware of from switch one to this. When you're playing in handheld mode, the ability to put in fine, tight motor movements is very reduced or it takes a hell of a lot of getting used to.
Speaker 1:It's a pretty steep learning curve with playing it in handheld. I'm the guy who played a hell of a lot of Switch 1. I'm not here to criticise necessarily the form and function, but certainly some of the implementation. Sometimes on some games notably for me, cyberpunk, where I must look like a guy who's I must look like Skyrim from last week's episode I've had about six monster energies and I don't know what to look at. First. You walk into a room and I'm like it's like the guy's straight at me and I'm like what are you doing, george?
Speaker 1:You're looking at your shoes. Oh yeah, he's straight at me now, about two inches off my face. Hello, how are you welcome to Night City, baby yeah, I found it a lot.
Speaker 2:I haven't played enough handheld on the 2 to know that I found it a lot on the 1 and I then transferred to the bigger, the Hori Pro Pads on the side and that really that stopped all that. They were more like proper, proper half control.
Speaker 1:But I don't buy a switch to go out and buy a third party excuse for an answer for a solution that should have gone out the gates. Plus I want it to be flat. So you know it's OG joy cons for me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's no, but it is a nightmare. The hoary ones don't fit in any cases. Unless you buy a hoary case, you've got to take them separately.
Speaker 1:I don't want that driven.
Speaker 2:No, that's fair enough If they can't do it out the gates, then not acceptable.
Speaker 1:It's okay. I guess I could dial the sensitivity down and that's really in here. So it's not just an absolute Nintendo Switch 2 puff piece which this is actually going to degenerate into um. External speaker quality absolutely flawless, very loud um. You can go into the settings and select it to do a surround sound function, which actually works really well, especially if you're sat up against the wall or something. It really just mounts off there give you that feeling one thing.
Speaker 2:Sorry to just jump in. That's another thing I noticed as well. Then playing on the oled, from playing on the switch to the speaker was like titty and I was like, oh, that hit home a bit. That sounds a hell of a lot better than switch to.
Speaker 1:I didn't notice it with the oled till I've got the switch to and I suddenly thought well, my transition point is from like a mark one, switch one um but you know it wasn't new when I got it been well looked after to be fair, um, but um yeah, the the difference has been has been stark.
Speaker 2:I'll be honest yeah, because you've missed out. From the light to the oled, you've gone straight from an OG switch to a Switch 2.
Speaker 1:I didn't really see, you know you always used to preach to me about the OLED and I looked at it and yeah, the screen's brighter. But you're talking to the guy who had an OLED Vita and then an LCD Vita and didn't really think much difference between them. In fact, I preferred the LCD because of the form function.
Speaker 2:Yeah, maybe of the form function. Yeah, maybe I mean me personally I I love the oled, the screen, brightness and colors and the pop really was a massive jump from, I thought, from from the og, um, but this again is, that is another jump again, which I think is brilliant. But also, I think, for you to go from an og switch mark one to this switch two, that must have been whoa, hang on.
Speaker 1:It was Before we got distracted. I was saying that I also attached my Bluetooth speaker, my Bluetooth headphones, to it. They're only stereo and within that menu, to make the console surround sound, you can also use it to take a pair of stereo speakers and make them surround sounds.
Speaker 1:surround, surround, surround sound, to make them surround sound as well oh, wow and we, nintendo, haven't crowed about this, they've made no big song and dance about this. But right there in the settings you select it, it does a little test and I hear the sound from in front of me and the sound from behind me.
Speaker 2:No way.
Speaker 1:That's incredible. Sony did a massive half-hour video about Mark Cerny going on about the shape of people's ears and he still hasn't been able to get it working for surround sound. What are they doing? I?
Speaker 2:mean I don't have surround sound, I use my well. Well, what I'm wearing now, my Pulse, which actually worked on the Mark I switch, be interesting to see what they sound like on the switch too. I take it they're compatible.
Speaker 1:I have absolutely no idea. I'll have to try that out.
Speaker 2:I'll let you know next week how we get on.
Speaker 1:You'll have to plug your dongle into your switch though that's what I used to do on my old switch.
Speaker 2:Ah right, ok, who knows week? Well, you'll have to plug your dongle into your Switch, though that's what I used to do on my old Switch.
Speaker 1:Ah right, okay, yeah, yeah, right, well who knows, and generally the fit and finish. There's no more of that wobbliness with the Joy-Cons attached to the console itself. You know, before with the old school Joy-Cons you had that wobble, even on a new one, because I thought is it because it's used and I had to go with the new ones. No, it's exactly the same. So that always left me feeling like I was playing with a toy Felt fragile. I don't know if it felt fragile, it just felt a bit wonky.
Speaker 2:You felt the flex sometimes.
Speaker 1:yeah, I felt the flex every time, and it was like you had to get yourself in a position where you kind of flexed it one way so you didn't move, so you didn't do it again. Um, this one, though, feels like a real premium piece of gaming 2025. It's literally bolted together from top to bottom in a real nice way. Fit and finish of the top and bottom vents perfect. Fit and finish of that top, usbc or whatever it's called, as you you say. Perfect. The bottom one as well. Great original position.
Speaker 1:I haven't tried it docked, it's all been handheld. I've been literally having just the time of my life sat on the sofa, and when we get into discussing games, you know I'll go into this a bit deeper, but I've never been so absorbed into Cyberpunk 2077, sat sort of roughshod on a sofa with my headphones on, than I have even sat with a TV screen and a full surround sound set up and the lights out, the whole bag of tricks. I was more absorbed into this moment, handheld, than I've ever been on a screen with that game. I'm not saying it was mind-blowing, it was the best experience, better than any gaming experience I've ever been on a screen with that game. I'm not saying it was mind-blowing. It was the best experience, better than any gaming experience I've ever had.
Speaker 1:No, I'm not, but in that moment it grabbed me and it pulled me into the screen and I could have been. I was in the world. I think that's my point. I was in Night City in that moment, without question, I just let go. And normally I need all the ephemera the lights, the tv, the surround sound, all of it just with my cheap ass little sony headphones on bluetooth.
Speaker 1:Sat there, I was gone and I think also there's always been a compromise with handheld raymond yeah, I was just gonna say in that moment I was gone and that was the first time that for me that it made me realize that the switch 2 has come up. I never had that with a switch one, ever. It was like I'm playing a game on this little toy, never, ever had. It doesn't matter where I was playing witcher or whatever it was this time around, boom, it was gone. No, you say there's always been a compromise. That has. Are we at no compromise?
Speaker 2:that's exactly what I was thinking. Um, you know, even even with the oled, what a great system it is. You always had to compromise them, going from a, from a tv screen to take it with you. You know, a smaller and yes, the switch to is still smaller than a TV screen, I know that. But it's something about the real estate of that screen, the LCD, the pop of the colours, and now you said, the surround sound, your earphones. It's more immersive.
Speaker 2:Yet the thing is now it's that hybrid side of it that you can get immersed in your tv and your surround sound at home. You can pop it out, pop your earbuds in, and away you go and you've still got that immersiveness on the go, which, yeah, you know, I'm not saying that's the first time it's happened, but it must be one of the, you know, it must be one of the first, I would imagine that has done that. I know we've got the steam deck in that. I don't know how. I've never had a steam deck, so I don't know what that works the surround sound and bits and pieces, all the immersiveness, but yeah, it's, it's, it's definitely up there, I think, for for especially the steam deck's probably doing all the flashy bits that the switch do is doing right now.
Speaker 1:But for me I know the steam deck's more powerful but I don't want to carry around the obscene looking thing. Actually I take that back. I know you've all got one, but for me I go traveling a lot, I don't want that in my bag. Even the portals are obscene to me to take. I just want to slot my switch. And that was the good thing about the switch it just slotted in.
Speaker 2:It was nothing. You sound exactly the same as forgive me, I forget his name off Digital Foundry, the American guy and they were doing a live stream the other day and they said about you know, is the Switch 2 going to take over from your Steam Deck when you're travelling? Because he travels a lot and he said, to be fair, when he did travel he tended to prioritise his Switch anyway because of the size and had to slot it in his bag rather than the Steam Deck was big and bulky, he had to take it. He said occasionally he did, but the Switch was always prioritised.
Speaker 1:That because Prior to the Switch, I would rock up everywhere with a Vita or a PSP or something. But you know, the Switch was like, wow, this is a step up. You know Vita was great, but this is a step up. Switch 2 blown the doors off. It dude, literally. My expectations were. I mean, as everybody knows, last week I forgot it was even coming out and Scotty reminded me. I was like, oh wow, I thought it was the end of June, it's actually beginning of June, great. And it's come and sat me like a wet fish. I'm desperate to get back on it.
Speaker 1:Moving on with the review into what I want to talk about, which is the UI, if I may, switch 1 at the end and it got degeneratively worse during the course of its life, as all these things do. But transition of the menus, especially the internet-based menus, ie the sharp or nintendo switch online icon on the left hand side was slow and it was glitchy and it would take a long time to load and even if it did load the pictures, it might not load the words. Um, again, rgt. Not a massive redesign, but a redesign nonetheless, one that I'm pleased to see because it marks that transition to oh, this is a new thing.
Speaker 1:I know when you get into some of the submenus like settings, it's like oh, here we are, we're back on the Switch again. Now one of the things so generally favorably good things to say about that from me. But one of the things that I'm finding quite odd is the virtual game card page. Hang on a minute. But we've got the all software page again on the right hand side that determines whether it's on the console, whether it's cloud, whether it's a card game or whether it's not. Would it not have been easier just to add another menu, add another icon to the menu when you click on those games there anyway, I was thinking exactly the same thing.
Speaker 2:I got the stage, was just thinking this is getting a bit confusing. Now I'm not quite sure virtual game cards downloads, what's on the system.
Speaker 1:I was just like, yeah, this is just why not just go to the right find click on the game? If it's a cart based game that you own, it will say you can insert it but you can't virtually share it. Or if it's a cloud game you've downloaded, there's an option to either download it and get to the console, or there's an option to just share it with a friend for seven days, with all the associated legal jargon. Why put two layers of penetration on this menu to do exactly the same thing as you could have done? Is it to make it feel new? Maybe is it to make a big thing of these game cards being a thing? Maybe Is it hidden behind some sort of Nintendo digital architecture to protect your games from being pirated? Hey, yeah, do you know what? Maybe, but it is.
Speaker 1:It's not even pretty to look at. You know, when I went in there and I saw the image on the car, I was like oh wow, is it going to give us some info? Maybe a little bit of manual, a bit of history of the game? This is exciting. What is it? No, nothing, Just pops up floats.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Or download. Why does this screen exist Again? I want to be honest about the things that hurt me, which are minimal, because I don't want this to be a puff piece. But that's odd. But then again, am I looking for a problem? Really, I don't need to go down there, it's just when I did. I just got hella confused. I thought what's this?
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, I did as well. It's an odd thing, because you've obviously got your digital games, you've got your virtual game cards and you've got your game cards and now you've got the three options. They sort of blur into one. You get a bit confused as to what, and then when you're buying a game, you've now got to look on the box to see if it's a virtual game card or whether it's actually.
Speaker 1:Oh listen, that element of buying it in the shop. I don't give a rat's see if it's a virtual game card or whether it's actually. Oh listen, that element of buying it in the shop. I don't give a rat's ass if it's a download code, it's a card or not. I know the collectors are like, oh, but when I put my red spine piece of plastic on the shelf, it irks me to know there's a piece of paper in there, a piece of plastic. Wow, mate, you know you need something to worry about.
Speaker 2:Some people are worried about where their next model's coming from Exactly, and I mean it is a step up from having a download code in a box, which was absolutely ridiculous on the Switch One, but it still gave collectors a thing to have on the shelf like they've got that game.
Speaker 1:You know, to me it was like well if it's high, it's okay.
Speaker 2:You just buy an empty box, you know, but anyway, at least this one you've got a card, yeah, but I suppose at least you've got a game card in there. I know it's not literally on there, but at least you've got a game card, Even some of the OG Nintendo Switch games I bought.
Speaker 1:there was a hell of a lot of downloading going on before I could and I can't play the game. I can't play it yet. I've got to wait for an install.
Speaker 2:This doesn't feel like the games on the card rgt. There's ways of life. No, please, if not, yeah, I agree with you. I just yeah, it's. It's how how this virtual game card will work. We'll see going forward. I'm a bit with you. I mean, if I'm gonna, I yes, I'm a collector, I like collecting my games. But if I'm gonna buy a game that's on a virtual game card, I'll buy it on a virtual game card and I'll play it. It's not going to stop me buying it.
Speaker 1:I'm a lapsed collector. As it stands I'll still pick up physical when I can. I had the win completely took out my sales when I got the PS5 Pro because I lost my disk drive. But with the Switch I looked how many games I'd bought digitally and it was embarrassing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, bought digitally and it was embarrassing. Yeah, it was embarrassing. Yeah, I agree with you on that, I was. I bought a lot digitally on there. When the sales come up, I'll watch switch up on youtube on a sunday night, or I'll snap that up, snap that up, snap that up.
Speaker 1:Then you look and think, whoa, there's a lot on there there's a lot on there, but from the portability point of view I don't really want to take a load of cases.
Speaker 2:No, you're right, you are, bang on, you are correct and I don't want want to take a load of cases.
Speaker 1:No, you're right, you are bang on, you are correct and I don't want to have to be like that guy on the plane going. Excuse me, madam, I just need to reach into my bag to get my copy of Zelda out and she's like oh my God, what a virgin. You literally make him a skink. You are repellent to me, so I'm really sorry. I've just dropped my little. I've dropped my Yoshi plush, just hang on. She's like oh my God, do you know what?
Speaker 2:This is a true story in Atman to you, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, I can tell as soon as you said.
Speaker 1:Yoshi plush, that's you. Yeah, are you riding it? No, no, no, I'm not. No, but yeah, you just don't want to. You just want to be able to get your console out. Get bored of one game, go in the menu, flick to another one, especially on a portable. I don't mind getting, I don't mind burning the calories. Game as well, I don't mind. But when I and again the Switch, I'm lading Switch 2. I'm lading Bez Cyberpunk. 1 minute. Boom F1 manager, the next Boom.
Speaker 1:Witcher 3, the next Oof, I'm on this that and I'm in and out like a Cub Scout on a bloody day trip to Amsterdam. It's incredible. Rgt.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there is something to be said for that. As I said, I'm a physical collector, but having that all on that one device, if you go on holiday and then you've got 30 games on there, it is a big difference. Just having it on that one system that you could just, you know you ain't got to take an extra case, you ain't got. Well, you know we were discussing game cases.
Speaker 1:You never have to withdraw. You never got to pull out from the moment, you're just in it, no question Like.
Speaker 2:I was saying we were discussing about game cases when we were talking before and yes, they are quite sleek and small, but it's still something extra you've got to take and if you want to put that in a case, you need a bigger case and it all adds up. Having them on digitally yes, it is a plus point.
Speaker 1:I know people are saying oh, gt, I, I believe you're saying this, but you either rock up digitally wearing just a naked Switch right, you've just got it there or you're that fricking nerd who comes with a suitcase full of ephemera. Oh, hang on a minute, I've got my Game Boy screen adapter. She's putting that on. You end up with a Switch, that's over here.
Speaker 2:No, you know the worst ones, don't you? They get this Switch and they get one of them little cube blocks like that, and they all open up and all the games are in it.
Speaker 1:Oh, look at my little. Mario block. Oh, it got personal.
Speaker 2:No, I was just saying, you know, you open a little Mario block up. Oh look at all my games, all stored in here.
Speaker 1:Hang on, this means that you have a suitcase of events which I didn't know, so you thought I was getting personal. You're like how dare you?
Speaker 2:How dare you? When we finish recording, when I finish recording, I have literally got a mini briefcase for the Switch Mate so I can take all my horror.
Speaker 1:I see why you got your chest out all Mal Evans now and then went after me for my tiny little.
Speaker 2:No, I just suddenly thought of your little cube block when you were saying about having it. I thought I can't mention the cube block.
Speaker 1:Mention it. I mentioned it last week. I love it. It's. It's small, Although now I've seen your, although, yeah, now I've seen yours.
Speaker 2:It's nothing really, but I'll show you when we finish recording. I'll show you you'll be is ridiculous. You do not need to take that around with you.
Speaker 1:Well, what can I say? I'm the woman on the plane.
Speaker 2:It's literally hand luggage on a plane. Jeez, yeah, it is ridiculous.
Speaker 1:So, yes, go digital Anything to declare Absolutely nothing. I'm probably the most boring person you'll ever meet.
Speaker 2:Feel free to look through. That's that bad. Mrs RGT gets a seat in a different part of the plane.
Speaker 1:Fair play to her.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Um what else do you want to talk about? Is it the games?
Speaker 2:yeah, I think we've. We've covered the ui a bit, like I say we were talking about. Your ui is very similar to your switch one, very similar, it's just a more streamlined. Also, e-shop is really good now e-shop, compared to the original e-shop which was just, if you remember, it was all, it was um, but with switch 2. Now I mean, I think they've done the update on there just before um the switch 2 came out. So I think they've done the update on that when um, when it's on the switch one. So the eshop's now red, it's not yellow, and it's just quicker, a snappier um, because the old one was a bugbear to go through. Um. But yeah, so eshop's definitely improved ui, um. But you know, I always thought the old ui worked quite well, so I don't know if it needed really to be changed that much.
Speaker 1:No, I'm glad they did, though They've refreshed the icons. I know this gripped a few people when the Xbox came. The Series X came. It continued the UI from the previous system and that's great for uniformity and everything and certainly from a user experience. But over on the PS5, it was a redesign and do you know what? Maybe not always for the better. Sometimes and I'm using it I still have the pro at rachel's and it's just like up to the top across the right, I'm out. Now it's like hold down the bar.
Speaker 1:The home menu feels separate from the game. It's. It's okay, but is it better? No, is it worse? No, not really. Whereas the switch to they've not insulted my intelligence. I've not just walked in and they've handed me the same device. They've redesigned the icons, they've reworked some elements of the home screen, they've added the virtual cards. But, yes, it very much feels like home, in a way, one that's been freshened up. You come home and changing rooms have been around. Lancelot and Bowen's been freshened up. You come home and changing rooms have been round like Alan Bowen's been in the virtual game card area. You're not too keen. You're hoping he's going to leave so you can get the decorators round.
Speaker 2:Just to paint it white again he's got a new dado rail up and that's about it dado rail and he's done a silhouette of him naked.
Speaker 1:You know I don't know what that looks like, but yeah, I'm very impressed with the kind of. It's a fresh place to come. The redesign of the nintendo switch online section on the left is very well received. Again, it's not a massive overhaul but the tweaks for me. I often go in there to collect up my silver coins to spend on cube to hold all your games in no not even.
Speaker 1:Not even that, just the virtual software gifts that they give you, because I do believe they're closing the giveaway area and they're stopping, and, much like Sony is stopping Starz, they've been intending on stopping their rewards program.
Speaker 2:Yes, I believe so, yeah.
Speaker 1:Which seems a little harsh. So I feel like we've covered all ends of the experience there. You got a Pro Controller, though, didn't you number? Two I did yes Are there any other accessories that you got other than the Switch 2 Pro Controller.
Speaker 2:No, I just got the Pro Controller.
Speaker 1:Did you get a case?
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Okay. So if you drop your Switch 2 Pro Controller review, I'll mention a little bit about the case that I got. Did you get a screen protector? Have you got a screen protector yet?
Speaker 2:Nope, I haven't nope.
Speaker 1:You better bag up RGT, because you might get something. Maybe, Get it done before the weekend's out. Get it off Amazon. Yes, okay mate.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it done before the weekend's out. Get it off Amazon. Yes, okay, mate, yeah, I will do. Yeah, I pre-ordered the Pro Controller. First sight when I pre-ordered it I thought, well, it's probably not much different to the original Pro Controller. I was quite surprised when I did get the Pro Controller. I loved the original one. One played all my games on screen at home because I predominantly play unlike you, where you play your switch predominantly handheld I play my predominantly docked um.
Speaker 2:so nice little combination of the two mindsets, I guess yeah, exactly, um, and it was always a very good controller. Um, my favorite controller of all time, as people know, is the dual sense, but the but the Pro Controller is very close. Second, I think it's only the extra things you get with a DualSense that makes it top. But the Pro Controller is a really well-made gamer's pad I always think, feels good, plays well, nice to hold. But the Pro 2 Controller face buttons are slightly bigger, slightly different design back buttons. Haven't tried those bigger, slightly different design back buttons. I haven't tried those yet, but it's got back buttons.
Speaker 2:But the analog sticks are superb. They are the smoothest analog sticks. I don't know how they've done it. I mean I know Badabinks has said on Discord yep, you wait till they pack up after three months and they'll buy you another one. They'll be stick drift. All the rest of it may well be, but the analog sticks are so smooth.
Speaker 2:I had a friend come around last night. Um popped around to see me and he's he's, he's bought one but it's tucked away for christmas, um, and he said to me did you get the? Uh pro controller said yeah, you feel these analog sticks and he was like my god, that is unbelievable. I was like yeah, I don't know how they've done it, it's, but it's a really nice controller to use, um, super smooth, really comfortable. It looks as though they took all the best bits of the pro controller one and same as what they've done with the switch to and they've tweaked it. I think people wanted bigger buttons. Give them bigger buttons. They wanted some back buttons, you know, for if they're playing fortnight, whatever the back buttons on there. You know analog sticks people said they're a bit crunchy before they smooth them out. Yeah, feels really good. Yes, I understand this is a 70 pound plus controller, 100 in america. I understand that it is an expensive controller.
Speaker 1:Um, do you know my bugbear. Just very quickly, I've mentioned it before, I mentioned it again the fact that this console has come with zero analog triggers yeah, that is.
Speaker 2:That's the only thing I was going to get to the, and if they had it, on the pro controller, I would have said fair play to you.
Speaker 1:Ninty forability. You've kept that like that. I get it. Now I'll get a pro controller, no question to play my driving games. But this does not have analogue buttons, does it?
Speaker 2:No, they're very short-drawed, literally Button triggers is what they are.
Speaker 1:Pretty much like the original pro controller.
Speaker 2:Similar, yeah, maybe a little more travel, not much, but similar, yeah. So you are right, if that had more travel, like a DualSense on so you can play your racing games on, this would have been a very good controller to use. Now, well, we'll get to games I've played, because one of the games I found it very good to play on, but yeah, overall.
Speaker 2:Snowrunner no, overall, I think it is an exceptional controller. It's let down by the triggers and I understand the against. The fours are really good. It's a really nice, brilliant controller. But the against are the triggers and it is a bit pricey. When you can pick up a dual sense for a lot cheaper, let's get a lot more tech. I can understand that. But it is a very good controller.
Speaker 1:So and the switch one pro controller is compatible, but you just don't get all the gizmos like the game chat, which I'm not overly bothered about anyway yeah, as far as I know that, they're compatible but, it's.
Speaker 2:It's basically yeah, use your pro controller you got last time, but if you want a chat, you're going to need to buy the pro controller too.
Speaker 1:So it's a bit yes and no disrespect, and we'll see how this develops. But who wants the chat?
Speaker 2:it's the, yeah, the chats to me. I can understand. Them want to have chat.
Speaker 1:You know, as people plan nine bits and pieces, blah, blah they've completely killed that ecosystem on purpose themselves, and now they expect people to go.
Speaker 2:Oh, wow, yeah, chat, yeah and then the little pictures on the screen. If you've got the camera you can see each other in about pixelated little screens that run at about five frames per second. I don't, I mean for some people, for younger people, on the switch too. It's probably going to be good fun. If you're playing mario kart, you can see your mates, you can play, but it's not really something. I mean the game chat would probably be handy if we get together on on the ucp and have another mario kart race and that. But we'll see. You know it's, it's, it's. It's a bit gimmicky, I'd say, but anyway, well, that's what about your, what about your accessories then?
Speaker 1:yes, so the only accessory. I I have bought two items. Let's cover off the first one Boom. This is the official Nintendo Switch carry case. When I talk about portability, that is what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 1:On the YouTube video Head over and I'm showing you the you know and that packed in a suitcase or a travel case.
Speaker 2:Looks like it's got earrings.
Speaker 1:Well, they're the zips, but they actually correspond with the colours of the Joy-Con that. Well, they're the zips, but they actually correspond with the colours of the Joy-Con.
Speaker 2:That's good yeah.
Speaker 1:The sides as well, which is cool. Inside it's got like a like that crushed not crushed velvet, but like a velour kind of felt finish to it inside.
Speaker 1:Now it did come with a screen protector, a film one. Now I took myself off to a surgically prepared laboratory. I sterilized the worktop, I sterilized everywhere, I put on one of those suits, I earthed myself, um, and I looked at the switch. It had a piece of dust on it. So I very studiously cleaned it off. I got this thing immaculate. You could, you could have performed a surgical operation with this Switch and no one would have got an infection. It was that clean.
Speaker 1:I break out the film official Nintendo screen protector and within about two seconds of putting it on to the Switch, it had magnetised every single element of dust that had ever existed in the history of mankind, since the dawn of time to the back. It had magnetised every single element of dust that had ever existed in the history of mankind, since the dawn of time to the back of this film. And as I pulled it off and laid it down on the switch, I'll tell you what it looked like. It looked like a piece of bacon cooked that had been left outside for at least two months. It was disgusting.
Speaker 1:I immediately ripped it off, bathed the switch down in holy water, which is basically Miyamoto's tears washed it all off, thought I don't want any of that again, went on Amazon and ordered I don't know what make it was, but one of those ones with the applicator trays Fitted. That looks flawless, looks almost. It's raised up the thickness of the switch by about half a millimetre maximum, but actually I think it's actually made more of the screen than was actually. I like to see a slightly.
Speaker 2:Is that a glass one? Is it a temper? A glass one? Is it a lot of tempered?
Speaker 1:glass glass yeah, one thing that it did come with, though, and I do like my official bits of ephemera. It came um the case, or the screen protector, more rightly came with a piece of nintendo branded black cloth, microfiber, uh, for cleaning it. And there's also an accessory section of the case slightly larger than the switch one, because of the slightly more real estate of the console. So instead of getting eight games I mean it's only really meant to carry six, but I double them up because double the pleasure, baby, triple the fun, as, as they say, they certainly do.
Speaker 1:And you get that little sort of net carry case underneath it.
Speaker 1:I'll be honest, I've laboured on far too long about a carry case, but one thing I would say about it is it gives me the portability to know that I can take the switch without danger.
Speaker 1:I had a similar one, but a cloth finish for the switch, one that's being kicked around in suitcases and chucked in backs of cars, and I'm always on the move from one place to the next, and the switch has survived in there perfectly, um, equally so for this. So, yeah, I would say, if you're listening, you're thinking about getting a switch too, or or you've got one on order, or you've already bought one. You're saving it for christmas or maybe another day, or or birthday, or whatever it. Do yourself an absolutely massive favour and get yourself a screen protector from Amazon, because before my one arrived, I literally felt like I was walking around with my testicles outside of my flies, just displayed with a target on them, and that's how I feel when I've got no screen protector on a device that I use. I literally feel like I'm carrying my crown jewels around and asking people to slap them.
Speaker 2:I did. I put a one-day one on the OLED and then, once that was tempered glass that fitted so well, looked so good and I felt so much better, I thought, right, done the same to Mrs RGT's switch light as well.
Speaker 1:I remember when I got my switch OG Switch factory launch model that's obviously got that kind of you can move the screen in and out, can't you? And it doesn't feel right and as soon as. I slapped the tempered glass one on there. It kind of gave the whole console a little bit more rigidity, but it meant that you couldn't indent the screen like you could before.
Speaker 2:Ah, I never thought of that, yeah.
Speaker 1:Before you put the screen protector on, it felt like you're rubbing your hand across a slightly matte surface. As soon as you put that tempered glass screen protector on it gave it that OLED feel of having that cold feeling the glass on you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's a good point. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, there you go. Consumer news for the Mark. I Switch Right at the cutting edge. It's retro.
Speaker 2:now it's retro.
Speaker 1:Now it's the cutting edge. I want to take you on a journey to the future 2077, baby Cyberpunk 2077. Now the Switch 1 was known for its impossible ports. Heck, you know, I've played the wheels off what we call on the show Switcher 3. I shouldn't think it's a unique catchphrase. You know we're not that clever, I'm sure someone else has said it, but I played an awful lot of that and I was curious because one of the games obviously I got the mario kart world bundle, which we'll touch on, yeah, but I also picked up cyberpunk because I, whenever I get a new console, I want a big boys game and I want the game, so the game that the company developed, and then a big boys game that's normally third party. Now cyberpunk 2077. When I played this initially on either ps4 pro or very early days of ps5 I, it was obviously at launch for the show. We reviewed it and if you go back you can listen to that episode.
Speaker 1:Now. I never had any bad experiences. I had humorous experiences, but I never had my save wiped or anything crazy like that or a game breaking glitch where I couldn't progress. So I know people out there had bad experiences. Mine was never that bad and although it's been a hot minute since I last played it on ps5, um, this thing looks incredible. I said to you, I've never been so drawn into a game, especially a handheld game. In that moment, where the transit no longer was there a separation between me and the game, a glass screen and the Joy-Cons, I had entered the game. I know that sounds crazy, it's not virtual reality or anything like that, but that's how. The vivid screen, the HDR, the way it looked, the VRR within its own screen, everything was just so good. It looked solid.
Speaker 1:That first time you open the window in V's apartment the night after you get there and Night City is illuminated in daylight and you can see into the distance and you can see the signs and you can see the cars. And I just was like wow to have this in your hand like this. And I know it well. Steam deck did it six months ago, mate get like I know it did. But this thing is so thin and slick and it just felt so right.
Speaker 1:I was looking in the corners to see where the the tape was going to fall down and reveal a little bit of the texture loading in, and there are elements every now and then, but they're so infrequent. To mention the mother as a slight sort of did I see that or not, I think would be do the game a disservice. Everything about it is there. Now you can tell there are slight texture walkbacks but compared to the witcher 3 you know it's practically it's the full fat game running and it felt so good, yet so accessible. And to imagine a game like that becomes so accessible on the switch, um, that I enjoy it like a whole nother. It was. Sounds are great, stereo sounds with those headphones and everything.
Speaker 1:Obviously I'm not here to review the game necessarily, because it's been reviewed a million times before and I'm a big fan of the storyline. But to review its arrival on the Switch is an honour and a pleasure and I will see it through and Phantom Liberty over the years I'm not saying I'm going to rush it through, but over the period of owning the Switch 2, I think Cyberpunk 2077 will be one of those warm, comforting blankets that you can go back to again and again and again during the Switch 2's life. Have you brought a game to review or are you going to do? What games did you pick up? Rgt?
Speaker 2:I just got it bundled with Super Mario Kart World, which I've played a bit of that, but I also I've mainly used mine to just go back over a few of my OG Switch titles to see how this software Well, do you want to before we we go, because I've got a few games.
Speaker 1:Obviously I'm sure my experiments in the backwards compatible suite are very different to yours, but before we go down the backwards compatible route and either the upgrade pack route as well, um, let's talk about mario kart world. What?
Speaker 2:do you?
Speaker 2:think to that um, I think it's interesting because I think when you've got a long-lasting um ip like super mario kart you know, like you do with super mario and anything like that I've said this a million times before on the show you you have to do one of two things you have to keep it familiar to the fans, but you have to do enough change to make it different, and it's quite hard to do. Um, I've only played a couple of cups on it so far. Um, but what I will say? I think it's got that really nice aesthetic of mario kart. I think you know us Mario Kart. You can jump straight in from Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and you'll be drifting around corners and you'll be winning races. So it's got that to it. But they've also just give you that bit more, a few more weapons and that you can use more characters. And then you've got the open world side of it, which I just found myself driving around and trying to find things and going up this little swirly mountain part and I just thought, yeah, this is, this is quite a lot more to an add-on for something that's just oh, you can just do this. I think, yeah, this makes this a really big game and a lot more in-depth and a lot more playable time to this game. Um, yeah, I'm impressed with it. I can see myself putting some hours into this, really enjoying it. I think friends around playing as well, it's great fun.
Speaker 2:Um, I've seen a few people say it doesn't really look that good for 4k and I think I'll disagree with that. I think think it looks. You know, mario as an animation and as an art style is what he's going to be, so what you're only going to add is your pop in your depth of screen and your 4K resolution, which they've done. I think it looks really good. It looks gorgeous. Yeah, I'm quite impressed. To be honest, I know people are saying about this £80 game sort of thing. It's obviously cheaper if you buy it with the packing. It works out about £50, I think, if you buy it as a packing with your Switch 2. But yeah, I think it's the same as Mario Kart was for the Switch. I think it's one of them that you'll always have and you'll always keep playing for the life of the console. Yeah, I think it's good. I'm really enjoying it. I think it's good. Yeah, what about you?
Speaker 1:I'll tell you what I thought from the minute I turned it on, got to the loading screen. You see Mario storming down that desert road. Yeah, you know the scenes that we saw from the trailer comes up and straight to the screen. I thought this has got the hints of something special about this.
Speaker 2:Very polished.
Speaker 1:Very, very polished. Transitioning through the menus, I was thinking, yeah, this has got a little bit of grit to it. When in the first one obviously did the race and you get the section where you race the next race and I was like, yeah, I'm having fun and I'm smiling and I'm enjoying myself and you know what? That's what I want from Mario Kart. Now I know people are saying I know you brought up the money thing and what I'll say about that is we get Mario Kart now. It's 80 quid, or we got it with a bundle, it was 50.
Speaker 1:You get Mario Kart in 10 years time, when the Switch 2 is on its ass, it will be the same price. Yeah, get it now. Great thing, you're never not going to have it in or around your console. You know you've got a virtual game card version of this because you've got it packing in a box, right. So obviously means the plastic case is 30 quid's worth. Fair playing, isn't it? Um, that kind of stint of a period of it always being in there or just waiting for my train, or just have a quick go on Mario Kart, or just have a quick go on Mario Kart World, or I'll just get a little mosey around in Mario Kart World between games. Just have a quick go on Mario Kart World. You can see it now and then all of a sudden price per minute. Ratio of enjoyment this game is not even a consideration.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's not a one and done game, is it? It's something you're going to keep going back to?
Speaker 1:I will always appreciate that not everybody has got 80 bucks, not everybody has got $450 pounds. Call it what you like. I know that right, I do know that, and we hate to review it. And we also understand that people have to make a compromise. But if you're saving up for a Switch, you're probably best off getting that Mario Kart World pack. And if you won't even have that one game until Christmas, when Granny gives you a little bit of money, you're not going to complain 100%.
Speaker 1:On top of the slew of new Switch games that have arrived, of which I chose Cyberpunk and Mario Kart World, rgt chose Mario Kart World and he's yet to pick his second wife, my wife um, but um, both of us and the switch have one of the most enviable libraries going and I know you shouldn't come in pick up your brand new console, sit down and play a game from five years ago. But hell, we're gonna, because rgt in my experience, if I may be so bold now, obviously these are switch games, so you can only push them so far. But load times, improved texture, popping, reduced solidity of the graphics I'm witnessing on screen massively improved. Witcher 3 to me looked like a different game to the one I played historically on switch. I'm not saying it was this, you know.
Speaker 1:I'm not saying it was a, the patched version, I'm not saying that. But certainly the quality of the textures close into the camera was higher. The spread of the textures and the pop-in as you got further out into the world was massively reduced. So I was very impressed with that and certainly it became. I would say it was never unplayable, but certainly moments made it feel like the Switch was struggling to make your actions represent on screen in the way you wanted them to, or they didn't unfold the way you wanted them to, or they didn't unfold the way you wanted them to. Now the responsiveness on the buttons is there because the code is not even sweating. It is super enjoyable. One of the best examples, because I think you've got the upgrade packs to discuss, haven't you for Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the?
Speaker 2:Wild.
Speaker 1:Yes, we'll major on those in a moment, if we may. Um, obviously I slapped in f1 now. We've joked about f1 on the switch before because f1 manager listeners. If we want to be explicitly clear, it's on the ps5 and things like that is flawless, it's instant loading. The graphics are incredible. Now again, this hasn't been patched in any way, shape or form, but the brute force of the which switch to means I'm not waiting two minutes for the circuit to load underneath the cars yeah yeah, everything's got.
Speaker 1:And there is that moment. It's a bit like when you put an ssd in a ps3 if you blink and you'll miss it. But it's better than blinking twice and then the then the proper texture fading in exactly, and and that's the kind of x you know like.
Speaker 1:Was that flaw there or not? Yeah, it's there now and that's all I care about. You know, it's like. It's a bit like the version of robocop that they launched you know where. For a moment their eyes would be hanging out of their head and then you'd look again and the texture had loaded and it was fine. This is the kind of experience, but I'm happy. I slapped in Farming Simulator as well just to see, and that looked really solid. It's a very old game on there now, but it did look really, really solid.
Speaker 1:And I think that's my takeaway from it. There's nothing where you're like, oh, it looks unbelievably better because these games aren't patched. But the solidity of what you're seeing by forcing that Switch code into the very best situation it could ever be in really pays off. Yes, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I think, for anyone that don't know basically what Nintendo have done, they've done it in software on the Switch 2. So you'll have a certain few games which have had an upgrade patch, like your Hogwarts Legacy 2, hogwarts Legacy sorry, breath of the Wild Tears of the Kingdom, things like that, but your OG games that haven't. They have a software inside.
Speaker 1:Hogwarts Legacy's got one.
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, that looks completely different.
Speaker 1:They were in the store for £12 last week.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was watching IGN today and they were comparing Hogwarts Legacy Switch 2 and Hogwarts Legacy Switch and it was night and day.
Speaker 1:Has it got rid of the load in between areas?
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All that's gone, money, money, but basically to cut it down right. Basically, what they've done is, if you get a switch game that was always chugging along a bit, they've literally wiped the vaseline off the screen, made it clearer and knocked out at 60 fps where they can. So these games are now running smoother and they look a lot more clarity on the game standard. Like george says, these aren't massive patches. They've just refined it, made it look a bit sharper and they've put this as where they can 60 fps.
Speaker 1:Just to be clear, in the games I talked about, there were no patches yeah, exactly you talk about.
Speaker 2:They have had a patch yes, they have had a pattern. They've had literally. I mean, like you say, they've had a 4k upgrade patch where these actually haven't. They're just running the switch software a lot better and basically the the software they've got in the switch to recognizes that and pushes it on a bit. Now I tried, um, before I go to the zeldas, I tried I was talking to you about and I thought do you know what I've got? Fc24 now.
Speaker 2:I always thought that was a decent port of that game. I always played that on the PS5. Always played the FIFA games on PS5. And I bought that on the original Switch to go on holiday and I thought that was the first time. Obviously, they dropped the FIFA name, so they went all in on it a bit. Rather than just making an old PS3 title, they just kept doing legendary additions. They had rebuilt it from the game up and you had literally everything you had on the ps5. Now, frame rate was a bit jaggedy and also, I always found that when you done your interviews after a match, your manager got stuck before he'd even walked in the screen. He said, and then you carried on having the conversation, he was just stuck there Now, but the actual game itself. You had everything. You had your use, you had your transfers, you had everything that the PS5 game had, which I thought was quite an achievement to get that on the switch. Now, tried it on the switch too, straight away.
Speaker 2:Update oh, there's an update for this. I didn't think ea would patch ea fc 24, but I'll pop it in. Had an update lasted about 15 minutes, played the game. Uh, when I first booted it up I thought resolutions, better. That looks nice. Um providing fc 25s already. You know it's been out a long time while I'd patch 24. I don't know, but anyway, um looked really good. Um started playing a training game before my main match and I thought I don't know if it's changed any more, that still seems a bit jaggedy, but played the game. Um, frame rates are so much better, so much better. Um really made the game more playable. I enjoyed it anyway.
Speaker 2:But I think now, when the new EAFC comes out and the Switch 2, are you going to be missing out if you've got a Switch 2 rather than a PS5? I don't think so. They're going to be as close as you can get, I think. And yeah, this is a very, very playable version. Now, I tried the first half of the game with my Pro Controller, which is an absolute joy to play EAFC with. It was smooth analogues and the controls suit that controller so much more, maybe even a little better, than a DualSense. It really plays to the strengths of that. And then I played the second half, handheld mode, which I was 5-0 up at half-time I finished 5-4 because I struggled so much like you, which I was 5-0 up at half-time at finish 5-4 because I struggled so much with, like you said, with the Joy-Cons.
Speaker 1:Those Joy-Cons, yeah, and I don't quite know what it is that triggers it to be so odd in your hand. I don't know whether it's the short throw or the sensitivity.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think because your sticks are larger and you've got more angle. You know it's a bit more sensitive, I suppose, but anyway, still played really well. Um looked really good on the screen. Um, on that little screen it was a smoother silk, you know it was. The frame rates were brilliant, so that was really really positive. Um, and then I went on to breath of the World. I've been wanting to play that again.
Speaker 1:You see, now that has had an official Nintendo expansion pack release, that's taken that from Switch 1's older to. Let's face it, let's not beat around the bush here it's a Switch 2 version of Breath of the Wild. Pretty much yeah.
Speaker 2:Pretty much. Yeah, obviously, if you've got the expansion pack and you're online, that's a free upgrade. Other than that, I think it's 799, am I correct? I?
Speaker 1:think they're 10 pound per upgrade 10 pound, okay, um.
Speaker 2:So yes, I've done breath of the wild. I've been wanting to play it again. I've hung off because I knew they're doing this upgrade for the switch to um. Put that in play, that strata wire for frame rate, 60 fps. This thing is smooth, is so much smoother. You don't notice how much smoother until you go back to your original switch, which you didn't notice much. But now you think, oh, my god, that is smooth. And also, um, that cel-shaded graphics. I just felt about putting that in 4k. That makes it look so pretty, so smooth, the draw distance. And when you look closer and you haven't got any jaggedy grass, now, as smoothed out, it plays. This is the definitive version to play. If you're going to play Breath of the Wild and you're getting a Switch 2, wait to get and play it on there.
Speaker 1:I'm glad that this has dropped, because one of the biggest disconnects I had with that game was it just. I know older Zeldas don't look great either I mean N64 Ocarina of Time but it had something to stream me in, especially at the time because it looked incredible. But even now it's got that nostalgia for me. But this I didn't have any nostalgia for. This is OG Switch One version, by the way and everything was so barren, it just felt so lifeless. But I've seen footage of this now, where you just get that little bit more detail and it's like that's what I was missing. I'm really excited to play this now see I, I love that being barren.
Speaker 2:I love that you felt like you're alone.
Speaker 1:You're out there I get the idea of you feeling barren and on your own, but this was barren because it was the only way they could make the graphics like that opening world is, is, is, gross well, yeah, you've got to remember as well this is a wii u game, it's not a switch game, it's a. It's just a wii u game release on, whether it's on ps5 or xbox series x or playing on my grand the Mars slipper mate. That opening world is gross.
Speaker 2:Agree to disagree. I love that opening world. That's fine. That's totally fine, just that first section with the church in it, is gross the rest of it I'm totally open to having a discussion about.
Speaker 1:But as an opening world to you, heger, let me throw you in the deep end with nothing but this bearded man who mumsy normally tells you to stay away from, I'll be honest, offering you a cooked apple. Offering you a cooked apple, what a very strange experience to offer up to a child. But yeah, I get it, zelda, I do, but talk to me more about these. Is there anything else? An upgraded sound.
Speaker 2:Like I say, I haven't tried with my headset on yet, I want to try it with my pulse, see what it's like. Um, but it does sound good. Um, they always had good sound on zelda games. They had very good like physics for water splashes and the sound of water raining down and that was always very good. They were good on that. So I can imagine this has had a boost. But this to me and I know people saying, oh, breath of the Wild again, it's now on a third generation of console. Yes, it is right, but if you haven't played it and you've got to switch to it's the definitive version to play. That's basically what it is, but it does look like a new game. This has really refreshed it and I've seen people online saying, oh, it doesn't look any different and I'm like, seriously, you know you could drop to like.
Speaker 1:Even I have to admit that it looks a hell of a lot better now than it did before.
Speaker 2:In fact, it looks like a work of art. Now. If you had a lot of them goblins and that on screen when you're on the Switch, you could almost drop to like 15, 16 frames per second. That got per second. That got a bit chuggy now it's just so smooth and it is, yeah, really glorious and they always had lovely, like when you went to a shrine and you had that blue light come out. Always looked nice on the switch. Now it looks really, yeah, it looks pretty, it is good, um, so, yeah, so, yeah, they look good and I've just tried some of my games I had installed.
Speaker 2:I got a um, um, uh. The puzzle game can't think what it was the mana one I've been trying. That's the. The load times are so quick, they're snappy. You're in the game now. It's just smoothened everything out of your original library and it's just nice that you can pop them in now and you've got snappy load times quicker in and out. They look a bit better and, where they can, if they've really improved frame rates on them. So yeah, I know not all games. Some games have dropped their resolution in the favor of fps a bit, but overall, from my experience, so far so good. So what about you is any anything else from your og you've. You've played on there and try, george um wrestle empire actually got a patch.
Speaker 1:Matt dickie, friendkey, friend of the show, you know.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it came out prior, but you obviously couldn't select it on the OG Switch. But yeah, we've got the maximum textures. Now I think you can double the amount of people you can have in the ring. And it was already ridiculous, mate, if I'm honest with you.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 1:Yeah, wrestling Empire will always be on the go for me on there. I did try bumping down. I've got the no Man's Sky patch for the Switch 2 downloading as we speak. Obviously, sean Murray's always in it.
Speaker 1:The first game I ever bought for the Switch 1 was no Man's Sky. I love that game. I loved it when everyone else was saying it on PS4 launch day. I thought it was great. It was everything I wanted it to be. It's now gone a little bit beyond what I ever wanted it to be. It's become a little bit more impersonal in a way. But anyway, I was excited to see Sean did a little video saying we've got this update for the Switch 2, we've got the graphics up to this level and I'm thinking this is incredible. This is what I wanted no Man's Sky on the Switch to be. But now we're knocking on the door of the modern-gen. It's not that good. It's like PS4 Pro maybe, but it still looks absolutely delicious and I'm quite excited to dive in myself because it was a miracle that that game ran on the og switch.
Speaker 2:but now, yes, a pair of achievements. Get that on there.
Speaker 1:This now it gets its chance to spread its wings and for people to enjoy it, for the reasons why we're enjoying it everywhere else. Plus, you know, one thing I have to crow about is the og switch had the cross save functionality on cyberpunk yeah, well, it's also got cross-save functionality on. Well, it had cross-save functionality on Witcher 3 that I often talked about. Play it on PS5, save to the cloud. Carry on the Switch, save to the cloud. Pay on the PS5. Cyberpunk's got the same cloud-saving mechanism, so you can play it on PS5, play it on the Switch.
Speaker 2:Play it on the Switch. And also, what we didn't mention, it's got gyro. If you wanted to use gyro plus, it's got mouse controls as well. So they've added that in, which is for day one to have first-person game with Joy-Con mouse controls and gyro, because I know a lot of people like gyro. I quite like it in Zeldas, it's handy at times. So, yeah, that's all on there from day one on Cyberpunk. So, yeah, superb.
Speaker 1:So you've got that, and then it feels like I'm flogging a dead horse now. But no Man's Sky has that cross-save functionality as well, so you can be playing not necessarily on the Switch, but you can play on your PS5, get in the car, go somewhere else, be camping with Mumsy. Admittedly, you need the internet.
Speaker 2:That's. I like that, because you know out to be camping with mumsy, admittedly you need the internet. So maybe that's I like that. Carry on, because you know how you think, how many hours you've put in to no man's sky and if you're 90, 100 hours in to just think, you can save that to the cloud on your ps5. Take your switch to one holiday with you and just carry that save. That is brilliant my point exactly.
Speaker 1:You know. You don't need to worry about packing, you don't need to worry about making sure you've got that memory card in your back pocket. It's just literally done. And if you downloaded the cloud save to your Switch before you left, you don't even need internet when you're gone.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So it's that it doesn't. You know, the switch one made its way. If are you ready to wrap up, Cause I'm, I think I'm. I'm formulating a wrap up, yes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm ready when you are.
Speaker 1:Okay, I mean the switch one came along on a bit of a bit of a dark turn for Nintendo. Obviously, the wii? U had crashed and burned and I owned one and felt burned myself when the switch launched. Originally I kind of stood back from it a little bit and it did come in wearing a different coat. Initially, yes, it was your favorite little ninty console and it was a combination of your ds and it was the combination of your home console but and an evolution of the wii?
Speaker 1:U concept of having the screen separate from the TV to allow you to sit with family members while you played, or, with the idea of the Switch, literally just go out in the wild. Very game-alike. But it masqueraded as that guy, that kind of third wheel in the menage a trois. You're dating a girl and then there's that sort of woman or guy that's kind of in your circle that you can't get rid of. Call them a gooseberry I don't know what they call them in, uh, in the united states, but something similar. And the switch actually masqueraded as that gooseberry. Is that cook, as that man in the corner of the room watching his wife with somebody else. It was that console that was. You had a playstation, but you had a Switch as well. Well, for gaming on the go it's acceptable. It was the way that Nintendo kind of got back in the zeitgeist of gaming after a pretty dreadful time of it with the Wii U clawed and scratched its way, along with some Wii U ports, zelda, breath of the Wild, mario Kart, all that sort of stuff, and it had its own games. But Switch 2, it's not the cook anymore, no, he's the main dude. I think Switch 2 is strong enough to stand, not graphically, admittedly, but ecosystem-wise it's right up there.
Speaker 1:There's something our GT said earlier about compromise. Oh, there's always been a little bit of compromise with the handheld. There's always been a bit of a compromise. This time, so far in my experience, there is no compromise and it's the first time I've ever been able to say that out loud about a handheld gaming experience. Psp bit of a compromise. Screen was a bit garbage, didn't have the dual um analogs. It really didn't feel great.
Speaker 1:Vita came along, oh hello here. I am kind of halfway house, but not really switch og switch comes along, like I say, dressed up as the guy. He's wearing a pig mask, comes around your house for a barbecue, ends up keys in the bowl. Bit awkward. You know off you go, switch two. He's come in a suit. It's a gigolo. It's going to take you out somewhere nice, buy you a meal, put some headphones on and give you surround sound. You're not going to know what's going on, but it's. It's probably one of the best gaming experiences you've ever had. Um, and it's the level of refinement. It's like switch but good, but with so much more to come, and I don't know if that might be a controversial thing to say, but I think it's very true.
Speaker 2:For me, I think, yeah, I agree with you 100%.
Speaker 1:I can't imagine you're going to wrap up with the cook reference, but I want to see you try.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's going to be nothing like that. Yeah, it's good to be nothing like that. Yeah, it's good. Right, carry on. No, no, seriously, I was late to the party with the Switch. I jumped in on Switch Lite, then OLED. Yeah, and you're very true, it was the console you had to take on holiday while you couldn't play your Xbox or your PS5.
Speaker 2:Initially, initially, and then I always thought people who only had Nintendos. I thought, oh, you're missing out. You should have a PS5, you should have an Xbox, get that 4K. But then, after a few years of playing the Switch, I started getting it. I started getting the hybridness, I started getting. Well, hang on.
Speaker 2:After a while I started thinking why am I buying a PS5 port when I bought a switch port and I can carry on on holiday? Do you know what I mean? Cause I didn't have a portal. I don't know that all then started. So then the switch two comes along and you suddenly think, yes, you're right, there isn't. I don't think there's a compromise anymore. You can. There's a compromise anymore.
Speaker 2:You can sit at home and play a big boys game in 4k, no problem at all. Then take it out, pop it in your case and away you go and you still play that game and you think there isn't that. Oh, yes, I'm playing switcher 3, but on the ps5 pro it looks awesome. Now, with the ports we're going to be getting on here, you're going to be thinking, oh, hold on a minute. And you're right about Cyberpunk. I watched the Nintendo Life review of Cyberpunk and I was just thinking you would not think this is on a Switch. This looks stunning, this looks. And they were sort of saying, oh well, yeah, it's not as good as a PS5, blah, blah, blah. And I was thinking that ain't far off. That is not far off. It looks very good.
Speaker 1:The thing is, it never turned up to pretend to be a PS5 version, but what it did turn up doing was looking absolutely fabulous.
Speaker 2:And I think now, like, for instance, if you're on the Switch, if you only had a Switch and you had, for instance, like I said, eafc, if you had an EAFC game on the Switch, all you're meant to be like, oh no, that's garbage, you need to be playing on the PS5. When EAFC 26 comes out, people aren't going to be saying that because it's for what graphics you have on EAFC. I don't think it's going to look any different to a PS5. And I know people saying, oh god, all you've done is just brown nose Nintendo over this console. But from our early impressions, it is very good, because at home it's a 4K, 60 frames per second plus really nice games console that plays really well. Not only that, you've then got a portable system which you can carry on playing those games on a really nice 1080p LCD screen. It's a very, very good all-rounder.
Speaker 2:Years ago you were handheld or you're a console, but you're either good at one and not the other. This is good at both. So far. It's very impressive. It's a bit of kit. I think it's where gaming could be going with having that hybridness, but now you've got the tech behind it to get the best of both worlds. So, yeah, very, very good and very impressed.
Speaker 1:To your point. It's still a little bit of a. It still is a little bit of a compromise in a way, but the compromise I suppose now is indistinguishable. The compromise that you're looking at is indivisible from the problem that you're facing. It's nothing.
Speaker 1:Well, I think that the switch 2 has come around at a time where we've almost hit a brick wall with graphical development as well, and the switch 2 has got in at the very back end of what could be considered good fidelity so true now it can map through on the same journey as at least the ps5 and the series x, until they call it and then do a pretty similar job of what the um switch was doing when the ps5 and series x came out, and I mean this place, it's gonna be able to hang on and what made me think that as well was this hogwarts legacy.
Speaker 2:Um, I was watching it on the comparison video today and I was thinking Mrs RGT's got Hogwarts Legacy on her Switch. She plays it on a Switch Lite, she plays it in handheld, so it's not subdued in a handheld mode. You put it on a big screen and you sort of think, ooh, you've done a good job getting that onto a Switch. But when you compare that to a ps5 side beside, you suddenly see this the, the vaseline on the screen, the, the delay, the loading going through doors, that's now all gone. And you're thinking, hang on, this looks really good as 4k, as hogwarts legacy. I find it quite. You can see the ps5 is better, but it's very, very close it's got me pumped for star wars outlaws on the switch that's yeah, I mean if, if, if ubisoft do it properly, it's gonna be decent, it's gonna be decent yeah, good, yeah, it's.
Speaker 2:You know, I'm just very, very impressed that you can. You can have a handheld. It's a really nice side screen, but a decent handheld to travel with and you can just pop it in that dock and you've got 4k, 60 fps on your screen at home it's impressive, like the dock is large but it's not too obtrusive.
Speaker 1:Like I've stayed away at times and I've never been the person to take like the big home console away with me. And last time I went away I went with some colleagues and he took a ps5 and like that day I should laugh, you shouldn't? That day I said to him what are you doing? So I'll play ps5. What, what portal or something? What's portal? He said. I was like, oh, it doesn't matter, what do you mean? You've been playing PS5?. I brought my PS5 down and set it up in my room Fair enough, I suppose it's only one HDMI port. And I thought to myself I haven't ever done that, but I've done similar where I've took the Switch dock and set it up in a hotel so I can play it on the big TV.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Just a point of portability of the console generally to close on. Obviously, the last Switch was very portable, but it had that really chunky wall adapter. It's gone. It's now a little brick and a USB-C to USB-C flawless. Now if you do want to take the dock, it's still not massive, is it?
Speaker 2:So you can still get it and there's going to be a lot of the OG Switch.
Speaker 1:You're going to get these travel docks you can use if you need to, which I had, and it was a game changer.
Speaker 2:So yeah, tiny little thing, I'm happy. Yeah, you know, so it's portable that way as well. You, you can't, you can't fault it for that. It's definitely got that portability. But you always thought of nintendo having the games, having the first-party titles, but they're always behind on the tech. I don't think they are now.
Speaker 1:I think they've managed to get themselves on the grid, but at the back of the grid.
Speaker 2:Yes, no, you're correct.
Speaker 1:But it's good enough.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's good enough to say hang on, is that PS5 or is that Switch 2? What is that? You know? You're now starting to think, oh, whereas before you'd go, oh God, yeah, that's the Switch, jeez. But now.
Speaker 1:You know definitely I've talked about at length my kind of disparity between Witcher 3, ps5, and then playing that cloud cloud save version on the Switch. I couldn't even work out where I was Hang on. I thought I was in that town. Oh yeah, I am, but it looks so different.
Speaker 2:And what I will say as well. This is early days of the system as well, so you think what people were doing at the end of the Switch life, they were really pushing stuff, what they could do. Borderlands always done good ports on there as well. Now I wonder what we're going to be seeing three, four years into this. That's going to be interesting. It's going to be interesting.
Speaker 1:And into you as well. Let's draw a line under the Switch.
Speaker 1:I think, we've reviewed the living wits out of it, definitely Any corner or intimate area of the switch that rgt hasn't invaded with at least three of his massive ham like fingers, and certainly that's one hell of a review. If it's withstood that, if there's some little crevice that we haven't probed or stretched, you let us know and we'll cover it off next time. Plus, if there's any questions or intimate answers you want about the switch, to jump on the discord or messages at questions at unofficialcontrollerpodcastcom. Or if you really want to feel invigorated and you felt certainly very I don't know like a born-again person after listening to our Switch 2 review you could even follow the link at the bottom of the audio show and pay us some money For that RGT. There are tiers. We're not going to talk about them here, but they start off great and they end great, and somewhere in the middle you end up with a T-shirt and a wooden postcard. I'll be honest with you, you couldn't ask for much more RGT.
Speaker 1:Those people that have ponied up, as I call it, to join the UCP community and also support the show with a financial donation. They get their name read out as one of their perks. I'm going to start with the finest man Sweden has ever will ever produce.
Speaker 2:The best.
Speaker 1:There is the best. There was the best sweden ever will be cnox, I don't have a cap to you, sir you're out there repping ucp merch on the streets of sweden. You are one of life's winners without doubt.
Speaker 2:Um next up, we have the fantastic one man george fan club. It is carlos, who has also, I've noticed today, just purchased his switch to. Yeah, I think he'll be. He's an ablors fan.
Speaker 1:Pre-ordering he just walked down there and bought it. He didn didn't get all sweaty three months ago. He just kicked the doors in Midnight kicked the doors in, switched to now.
Speaker 1:No, no, no. I'm going to pre-order it in case I don't get to play that new children's toy on the day it comes out. Carlos, no, no, no, no, no, he's got balls the size of grapefruits. He said you know what? I'm a guy who likes to live dangerously. I'm going to wait until it comes out, I'm just going to walk in the shop and buy it, no question.
Speaker 2:Yeah, thank you, carlos, and I hope you enjoy your Switch 2. I'm sure you will.
Speaker 1:I hope you enjoy your overpriced children's toys who? Have we got? Next the PS5 and Xbox as well. Up next, the man who will take one penny that you give him, shine it up and invest that penny all the way up into a million dollars. It's firm returns. He's a man who can take your financial disaster, turn it round and turn it into the biggest success you've ever seen in your life. He also sells penis extenders.
Speaker 2:Next up we have Tressels of New York. Thank you very much. Long-time supporter of the show. So yeah, thank you very much.
Speaker 1:Thank you, tressels. Everybody stand up for what you believe in. Bada bingster, italian dude.
Speaker 2:Another new song.
Speaker 1:No, it's one of those ones. It's a bit like a fart that was quiet and also didn't smell. No one knew about it and it kind of disappeared. Badabingster's a great guy, but what I gave to him there was a disservice.
Speaker 2:Nice thinking that, but thank you very much. Badabinkster's a great guy, but what I gave to him there was a disservice. I was thinking that, but thank you very much, Badabinkster, for all your support. Next up we have oh, now this is the man for Nintendo. Now this is Smokin' Jacket Cravat.
Speaker 1:Oh no, mate, Something happened. He got Overnight. He got mate. Something happened, he got overnight. He got a switch to upgrade. He sat bolt upright in bed because he lives here with me. He sat bolt upright in bed.
Speaker 2:That's the new one. Yeah, carry on Law's changing quick here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, go with it, ride the wave, ride the wave. We are in love. He sat Wow, he sat bolt upright in bed and and I turned to him and his head did 360 degrees and then his eyes kind of just went black, like a movie and I was like, oh my God, this is unusual.
Speaker 1:Tingle Tingle, are you okay? Tingle Tingle, are you okay? And then he just opened his mouth and out of it came just a stream of old-school internet, like old school internet dial-up noise. And it was, I'll be honest, I was, I was shitting myself, I'll be honest with you, as you would do if your partner sat up in bed and did that.
Speaker 2:Bleep that, phil, phil, bleep the. Yeah, we're cutting this out now, so bleep that. Bleep the. We're cutting this out now, so bleep that after last week right, let me tell you he's sacked.
Speaker 1:Then just these twos, just rolled up to his eyes, fine rolled up in his eyes and he became a switch too wow let me tell you, though, detaching and attaching the Joy-Cons never felt so good.
Speaker 2:So are we not cravat smoking jacket? Nintendo Games Library. Just a little puff, no, that's all gone, just a little puff.
Speaker 1:no, that's all gone. He's Cesare, the guy that you employed for the smoking, that guy that you employed. I had a gentleman contact me from Brussels the other day, representative for the little people's union. He, I'll be honest with you, rgt, the UCP lawyers, the legal department, I will say to you, has expressed most outrageous concern at the suit that's being leveled at us.
Speaker 2:Who have? We got next suit that's being leveled at us.
Speaker 1:Who we got next if you want to settle out of court with Cesare, off the record, they said that might work thank you, tingletuner, who we got next and for clarity, if you call him diminutive smoke blow, in future that would be slightly more appropriate thank you, tingle tuna, who we got next well, the only person that was required to help sort out that whole scenario you just mentioned with Cesare is Digital Monkery, the Discord Sheriff.
Speaker 1:If he sees a crime he's there before it's even happened. It's a bit like the Minority Port. He lies in bed next to me because he lives with me as well. I've got TingleTuner on one side, dm on the other and he sleeps with his fingers in the ethernet socket of this old laptop he's got and somehow he uses that to be at one with the Discord. He knows that a crime is and he kind of sits up bolt upright. So it was a bit scary last night because someone wrote something naughty on the Discord and TingleTune had got his update Boof up like that, both of them like rocks up in bed, boo, either side of me. I was like bloody hell, I don't need to help first. I felt like I was skiing boo, boo either side. I was like Tingle, are you all right? Dm, are you okay? Anyway, transpires he sorted it out. It was a quick edit. It was needed on a post.
Speaker 2:Someone slipped up but got that security. Next up, we have the wonderful Gaming. Graham. Thank you very much for your support.
Speaker 1:Pass us a sauce. Gaming Graham, because he lives with us now. He lives at the foot of my bed and it was really weird because he sat up. Balrog.
Speaker 2:This is going to be a long list this week. Listeners say long list.
Speaker 1:And just as a warning, I was the one who said we need to do the listeners straight this week. Who's next?
Speaker 2:I just did. Jamie Graham, that's your turn.
Speaker 1:Okay, so I get Bold Border. He lives with me now.
Speaker 2:Oh God.
Speaker 1:Thank you, Bold Border.
Speaker 2:He's on the half pipe in the garden. He is Next up. We have. He's on the half pipe in the garden, he is next up. We have. Pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew.
Speaker 1:I'll tell you what he's out there right now. Like a 17th century poet, I think he should rebrand himself as Love Sword.
Speaker 2:Who have we got next?
Speaker 1:My beautiful red-headed stepson the sort of thing that gets thrown out the night after a bad night, but not by me. I'm his stepfather and I love him.
Speaker 2:And I would imagine Ginger's now probably halfway towards getting 800 platinums now because he's an absolute platinum king. So yeah, absolute machine, that boy. And next up we have the Lord of Darkness himself, who did message me the other day and said I'm now actually playing Oblivion as a Lord of Darkness, and he's now playing it the evil way. He messaged me the other day and said I'm now actually playing Oblivion as a Lord of Darkness and he's now playing it the evil way.
Speaker 2:He messaged me as well. Yeah, it's brilliant. That's Harvey Retro. Thank you very much, Harvey Retro. Yeah, I love that playthrough that was very good.
Speaker 1:Now this next listener, thank you. Been on a world tour actually. Sat bowl upright, sitting at the end of the bed. Sitting at the end of the bed? Emma Sharp. She lives with us now, so she's there. She's kicking off Tinkle Tuna's kicking off DM's got his finger in an old Toshiba notebook. Anyway, thank you, emma, just nice to see you around the place. She makes the East Wing look beautiful.
Speaker 2:Without doubt. Next up we have Greg, who is nowhere near Berlin.
Speaker 1:Where is he near?
Speaker 2:No one ever knows. You see, you can't even track him. He's got military planes on that tracking app. You can't see him. There's no way of tracing him. He's there somewhere.
Speaker 1:Look how happy you were. He's not a plane.
Speaker 2:He's a freaking transformer. And I wonder if Forever Skies will be coming to Switch 2 we need that.
Speaker 1:We need that exclusive news. We need to be the ones to break that in the gaming market. If that happened, honestly it would be like Emma Sharp moving in all over again. It'd be next level, next Mumsy.
Speaker 2:Thank you, mumsy.
Speaker 1:Honestly, it would be like Emma Sharp moving in all over again. It'd be next level.
Speaker 2:Oh, next Mumsy. Thank you, mumsy.
Speaker 1:Has she moved in or has she she's moved? Out, because obviously You're a bit over-occupied now, aren't you? Well, she felt like a Switch One, a PS4 and Xbox One party. Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2:Fair enough. Next up we have the RGT Fan Club. Thanks to all of you and you know who you are. Thank you very much.
Speaker 1:Up next a man that's kneecaps are used by Fred Dibner. God rest his soul to smash down chimneys in the black country.
Speaker 2:Who is it then?
Speaker 1:Oh, everyone knows, that's Pete Brocklehurst mate.
Speaker 2:Well, obviously, but some people might not Next up, we have the wonderful Billy Marmite. Thank you very much, Billy.
Speaker 1:Have you ever licked the wrong side of a Marmite spoon?
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Good, it's deadly.
Speaker 2:Not that I've heard.
Speaker 1:Does that mean, I get Simon Pryke?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I can see where this is going. No.
Speaker 1:Perfect Transformed into a bike. I rode him like a trikeke, even though he had two wheels, not three. It was okay, because I rode him so hard.
Speaker 2:It made me happy and last of all we have. Do we have to do this contractually or yes?
Speaker 1:no, in fact, seeing as you've been so harsh to me over the last few sangiefs, I have a sangief for you to do and I want you to method act harsh I don't think I've been harshiefs.
Speaker 2:I have a Zangief for you to do and I want you to method act Harsh. I don't think I've been harsh. I think I've been very.
Speaker 1:You set your stall out like it was the first one, but I was also in a darkened room, sort of, and I actually took myself away and thought what that would be like and I cried while also Zangiefing. So what I want from you I'll be honest, what I want from you is I want you to Zangief, but I want you to feel like a journeyman. I want you to feel like you've thrown a couple of Zangiefs around at home. You feel pretty confident. You've seen the boys doing the Zangief symbol at school and you kind of laugh because you know what it is. You're like yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, my, yeah, yeah, I'm not one of those, but I am. But I know what that is, but I don't know what that is. So let's say, you kind of you've had like six Zangiefs, so you're feeling all confident, a little bit boisterous.
Speaker 1:You started on the Monday. It's Friday already, so you know you're all over it like a rash. Now what's happened there is on the way home. You've gone the field way. You've not gone the normal way. Timmy and Tommy went off a different way and you've gone the field way. Anyway, there you are, minding your own business and you come across what looks like a few pages or something stuffed in the bush next to the pass sign.
Speaker 1:Anyway you pull them out. There's some pages out of k's catalog, the maternity bronze section, but I don't know what it, what's happened to you, but it's come across you like a blood rage, like a poison. You've you've laid them out on the floor in front of you and you're a bit confused. At first you thought why would someone put these case catalogues on if it's the SNES? Oh no, it's not. That one's see-through and it's just hit you like a wave.
Speaker 2:I'm talking like a Sweet Jesus.
Speaker 1:Like a train in a wall and you've just Zangiefed. Now that's the Zangief I want from you.
Speaker 2:That took a long time to describe.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but what I? This is like an introduction to a book. Yeah, but where you give me a couple of bullet points and I fill in the gaps. I feel you need to see the whole journey. I want to get the best Zangief out of you that I know that you've got as a director here. I feel like I need to coach this out of you.
Speaker 2:That's the worst thing. You're looking me in the face while I'm doing this.
Speaker 1:I wanted to yeah, absolutely yeah.
Speaker 2:That's not right, I'm going to shut my laptop off. Jesus, we have just lost the PG rating. If there is ever a trouble, it is gone now.
Speaker 1:Don't you worry about it, right, okay, so.
Speaker 2:Can I just get this out of?
Speaker 1:the way. Yeah, okay, so Can I just get this out of the way? Yeah, but put the effort into it as I gave. You've had the pre-build-up. Now you know exactly what I want from you for that moment. Boom, you've got the backstory of the character. You know the motivation. You've seen the magazines on the floor. Give me the Zangief Action.
Speaker 2:Do I have you Poliwag Zangief Action? Do I have you pull away Zangief?
Speaker 1:That's. I felt like that was great, but your mic popped and it cut the top level off, so we just got the. That's it.
Speaker 2:Okay, I'll try and do it.
Speaker 1:Try and contain your performance Like that. We got the full surface there so you can have another. Go you ready. Take two of RGT's Fat Zangief Switch to review Action.
Speaker 2:Zangief.
Speaker 1:I have no idea what happened, but I hope that makes it onto the audio. And I don't know how you did it, but you just came like a Dalek.
Speaker 2:I'm now going to confession because I feel wrong.
Speaker 1:Just put those papers in the bin.
Speaker 2:Well, I might take them home, but Anyway. Anyway, what do you hope to play, george?
Speaker 1:Just Switch till it falls apart. I want to touch, poke and prod every single Switch game I've got into the slot and back out again. I want to see how it performs compared to what I remember. I'm going to play an awful lot of Cyberpunk. I'm probably going to play a little bit of Lord of the Rings, and that's going to be me a very happy boy. What about your good self?
Speaker 2:Hopefully get GTA 4 wrapped up this week. I'll see where Zangief is with that so we can maybe discuss and announce the next game on that playthrough. Also, what I forgot to mention I do apologise, dm for our oh, drop me, ben For our what we have been playing was the pinball game, which is our challenge this month.
Speaker 1:Yes, that looks quite good actually.
Speaker 2:It's very good we're on the Wild west board. What's that called pinball fx, is it? I think it's pinball fx.
Speaker 2:I think all I know is it's not pinball fantasies no, I think I'm sure that is pinball fx, I think. But anyway, yeah, we've been playing that, we're playing on the wild west board and it is um to get a high score, basically. So, um, I was there for a while with six million, but I've been blasted out of what we're ginging. I mean, it's like 20 million now. So, but, good, fun, quick games in and out, high scores, um, yeah, really good. So, yeah, I've been playing that as well. So I'm going to play a bit more of that um, and then just switch to, I think, uh, gonna. Now I've sort of I've recorded and finished work for the week, so I'm going to play some more Mario Kart World, mario Kart World, play a few more of my Switch titles to see how they've been improved on the Switch 2, and just enjoy the system.
Speaker 1:I think it's that early new console fun. Good, well, I've got to go away again, so I'll be able to report back on the true portability and battery life, that sort of thing, exactly that. So I'm very excited to do that. Well, I'm not excited to go away again, that's all I seem to do. But yeah, well, I guess that draws us to an end. Rgt yes.
Speaker 1:And I say thank you for listening. That's all we have time for this week Listeners. So we have time for this week listeners, as always. Thank you for your time. Look forward to the pleasure of speaking to you again next week. Until then, happy gaming and remember there's nothing wrong with being given the unofficial controller. It's what you do with it that counts. See you. Rgt ladies Outro Music.