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hey guys lost it is a Nintendo switch worth it so Nintendo hooked us up with one of these very first switches so I'm curious to see what we actually get in the blocks so inside we immediately get the actual switch console itself now as you can see without the joy con this looks exactly like a tiny tablet speaking Navi much bigger than like a phone so for size comparison this is the switch next to an iPhone 7 plus music oisin might even fit in a pocket oh yeah but of course we do need to add the controller's which are right here so these are the joy con controllers the way they work is they just slide onto a rail and that's it so once we add both of them the switch definitely gets a little bit bigger but a lot smaller than the Wii U gamepad so inside yes you get quite a few accessories starting with a full size HDMI cable we've actually got a standard USB C cable so the cool things about the switch is that if we just plug it in here we should be able to charge it but you can also use that USB C to drop it on the dock or bike you could probably even use something like a battery bank to charge the switch while you're on the go we also have the joy con grip so if you want to use the joy con by itself you can just slide this guy on it gives you better access to the top button and of course a very very secure and safe strap this is what safety looks like by the way there also is the joy card grip so in addition to be able to use them individually or with a switch you can also snap them in here so if we slide the second joique on on this is pretty similar to what you would find with a standard console controller but the cool part is not only can you use it like this but we can just pop the kickstand out on the switch you can imagine if you have yourself a nice little portable gaming setup so we've got ourselves a tiny little bit of paperwork so good job on not including an enormous user manual when I assume is the actual dock for the switch so what this guy will do is not only power the switch but it also will give you HDMI out to a TV so if we pop open this door here you'll see the port for the AC adapter there's USB 3 port as well as HDMI out on the side there's also a pair of USB port here so what's cool about this is it all runs off of the single USBC port on the bottom of the switch so when you dock the switch it pretty much just rests in place so it doesn't take a whole lot of force to pick it up and when you're ready to actually gain portable mode you can just slide your joy cards on and finish like that you have the full switch experience so even with the joy on detach the switch is still pretty small there's actually a lot going on here on top there's the power button and the volume rocker you have the exhaust as well as the headphone jacks and the slot for the game cartridge speaking of games we have the Legend of Zelda breath as a while so if you pop it open you'll see that the switch Karsten so our pretty tiny so not only our swish game smaller than the 3d at cards where they're even smaller than an SD card on bottom of the switch there's not much you have that USB C port for charging as well as connecting to the dock and around back you have the kickstand as well as hiding behind that is the micro SD card slot that's not going to be important as the switch itself only shifts with 32 gigabytes of storage so in theory you can put up to a two terabyte micro SD in here but realistically right now you're maxing out at around 256 gigabytes which should still be a fair bit of storage for the switch even though they look the same the droid colored controllers are actually different so the right one has the X Y a B buttons up top and it has the stick on bottom and on the very bottom of the controller there's an IR sensor take a look at the second joy con you'll see the analog stick is on the top so when you're using them separately or together in the actual grip you'll find that the sticks are actually offset which feels much more like an Xbox controller than something like the ps4 the first thing that jumps out to me is the interface on the switch looks so much better than the Wii U so now that we have a class of touchscreen which makes things feel a lot better but everything just looks clean look a lot less cartoony than previous Nintendo consoles so let's switch has 32 gigs of storage out of the box you only have 25.9 gigs of free space now with a couple of this I do feel like I would probably be buying more physical games than digital if you're planning on that you really should look into a microSD card since we got to switch early we're missing some major features such as the eShop but that will be coming in a day one update when the console launches on Friday so we can't test everything right now what we can do is play some games one of my favorite parts which is just how seamless it is so right now I can be playing on the normal handheld mode but if I drop it onto the dock you'll see that almost immediately will come right over to the TV so you can imagine that you play on the TV for a few minutes whatever the case is and when you're done you pick the switch right up and it's right back on the display out of all the modes for the switch my favorite might just be handheld so this is the switch by itself with the joy Kahn's attached and it feels good so one of the biggest differences here is when you actually compare it to the Wii U gamepad so from the front they look about the same but when you compare the thickness especially it is a huge difference of course keep in mind is the Wii U gamepad had to be tethered to a full Wii U console whereas with the switch sure there's a dock because you don't use that at all you can absolutely take this on the go no problem you can also use the kickstand so if I pop off the joique on all I need to do is kick the kick stand out and I can set it down so the cool part about this is that you're really not losing any control and honestly I kind of like the idea of having full freedom and I have to kind of keep my hands nice and tight boid problem is the kickstand isn't happy graded it works fine on a table like this if you try to set it down on something uneven like a couch it's going to immediately fall over so some reviewers have had issues with the left joy condi syncing from their switch however I haven't had any issues Mellie has been really reliable but being able to drop them on take them off it's all been super seamless so far the joint lines really are one my favorite parts of the switch it's a nice table just drop it on the dock slide the controller's off not only can I use these guys separately if I want more of a console experience I can slide them onto the grip accessory and play it like this the grip controller is decent but I feel like my hands are slightly too close together honestly my favorite way of playing on the TV is really just using the joi cons by themselves it's nice and comfortable and especially when you look at this as a full package Nintendo has done a really good job there are a lot of moving pieces here with the removable controllers and the dock and everything but it does completely work seamlessly together interestingly the switch has two different performance modes when you're playing handheld on battery it runs at a lower clock speed when you drop it on the dock it over doubles the performance now the main reason for that is that while this has a 720p screen when you connect it to a TV you can run it up to 1080p now while some people's complains at 720p seems like it's kind of low honestly the screen looks fine and I would much rather have better battery life and better performance it's a slightly lower red screen and there's something that's more high-end but completely kills the battery light speaking of the switch is launching a 4310 milliamp hour battery now that's decent but it's not that much bigger than most smartphone and Nintendo says that you should expect about three hours on a charge you're playing an intense game like Zelda and I might testing that sounds about right it's pieces but nothing spectacular there are a couple of ways to charge from the switch by far the easiest is to just drop it on the dock not only will that give you the TV out there also will charge down as a console but also the joy Conn controllers however since it's got a USB C port you have other options such as using something like the MacBook Pro charger you can also use battery banks but you do need to be careful that they will supply enough power however because of that USB C port you have a lot of options for topping this guy off the Nintendo switch is hands-down the most colorful portable console ever now yes some might call it a little bit gimmicky but honestly it works and it works really well sure there might not be a ton of games at launch however when you consider just how cool and unique this thing is it is absolutely worth it so what do you guys think about the switch let me know in the comments below and I will catch you in the next one