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what's going on guys travel consumer and today Nintendo dropped a bomb and announced a Nintendo switch light now we've been hearing rumors about a Nintendo switch meaning forever now as well as a more powerful version of the switch so only half of those rumors are confirmed right now so let's talk about this new Nintendo switch light and this isn't too surprising since we've seen them ten they'll come out with light versions of their handheld systems for decades now now this is the Nintendo switch light which means it also has a lighter price tag this thing is going for 200 bucks which is 100 bucks less than the standard switch and I was actually very very happy to see that lower price tag I think 200 dollars is a lot more accessible for those people who thought the switch was just a little bit too much money and it also makes the switch and easier buy for kids but now let's actually talk about the system this is a smaller Nintendo switch so it has a 5.5 inch display compared to the 6.2 inch display that we saw with the normal one so you get a smaller display here and something else that's changed that's pretty huge is they took away the joy cons so now the droid cons or controls are attached to the device so it's now one single piece and it feels like Nintendo is kind of using the idea that they used with the 2d s and where they made one slab that had no hinges just one easy piece to use and I think that's a good move when you're factoring in young kids playing with the system gives them less pieces to potentially break but it does kind of kill the whole idea of being able to switch up your gameplay style since you're only playing it in handheld mode one cool change that did make with this though is now it has a normal deep pad instead of the four button that we had before so now you get that pretty standard d-pad so for those of you who've been dying for that you got that here and that smaller display still has that 720p resolution just like the normal switch but you will not be able to dock this thing in and get it fully scaled at 1080p on a television they kind of remove that feature which is a bit mind-blowing to me I it wouldn't make sense to not include the dock period just so you can keep that price tag lower but they sell the dock on its own so it would have been cool to be able to still do that if you just bought the dock separately but that functionality is just there at all and basically Nintendo's reasoning for this is they notice the trends of how people play their switches and they say most people just play with it handheld would it impact me if I owned the switch light probably not but it just kind of sucks to see certain features get taken away there's also no kickstand which makes complete sense since you can't remove the joy cons and have the switch far away from you while you play the kickstand kind of sucks anyway now there's also no HD Rumble on the light I'm not sure if that means no rumble period but as of right now no HD Rumble which is the more precise rumbles that go with the sounds and the games but hopefully they keep normal Rumble I'd be fine with that but no Rumble at all I wouldn't be crazy about that and this time is dropping with a few colors we're gonna see grey yellow and the stylish color which you guys know I am all over and there's gonna be a special edition one for a pokemon sword and shield that one looks really really good and it kind of reminds me of the Nintendo 3ds that had all those special themes that you could buy so you might see a lot of people collecting these Nintendo switch lights and something that's pretty cool with this new design is that the bezels now will match the color of the system so it's not gonna just be a black bezel it's gonna match the system kind of help it blend in a bit more and I'm all about that now with a smaller display means you get an overall smaller footprint when it comes to the body of the switch light and the verge described it as taking off one joique on on a regular switch and you pretty much have that footprint which is probably gonna be great for kids since they have smaller hands won't be as unwieldy as the regular switch since that is a pretty big portable now the standard collar is gonna be dropping September 20th the same day as Link's Awakening and the special Pokemon Edition will be dropping November 8th and thankfully there's no performance difference between the switch and the switch light so that means you can play games like breath of the wild have that huge environment and not worry about getting like lowered graphics or anything like that you get the full experience just on a smaller system you'll also still be able to use external joy cons pro controllers pokeball plus so if you have those accessories or maybe you plan on getting them you'll still be able to use them but it might be a bit weird since you won't have that kickstand or anything to prop it up probably have to buy an extra stand to make full use out of it and there's a couple things you've got to think about if you're planning on picking up to switch light since it doesn't have detachable controllers no IR sensors certain games kind of require you to have those even playing arms is gonna be a bit different since you're not gonna be able to do that punching motion so you got to really think about what games you want to play if you're gonna get the switch light since you're not gonna have the ability to do certain motions alright so we got our details we got that $200 price tag now who is the switch for personally I think if you've been wanting a switch but that $300 price tag has just been keeping you away this seems like a good option since it's only 200 bucks you do have a lot of trade-offs but if you just don't want to spend $300 you might be willing to make the compromise I also think that this is going to be great for kids that smaller size fewer pieces I personally would jump at a switch life for a gift for a young one over the switch any day now who isn't this for obviously it is not meant for hardcore gamers this is the light version of the switch there's no reason to go down but it's not targeting any hardcore gamers that's for sure I personally just don't like the fact that they're kind of getting away from the switch aspect which is being able to switch up your gameplay style you're getting one gameplay style with this but it just has the switch name it's kind of weird now all we really have to do is wait for that pro version the upgraded one that maybe has a 1080p display has bluetooth so that you can listen with headphones all the things that we really really want on the normal switch hopefully we get it in the next version but that about wraps it up for this video guys hopefully you enjoyed it let me know what you think of the new switch light down below in the comments and we'll catch you guys in the next one until then it's your average consumer pace