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    I just got a Dialga edition Switch Lite. (It was a surprisingly fair price, like 130 ish) Meaning now I own two. But when I use it I can smell the fumes. It's not sanitizer or perfume this time, it's a very mild smell like sweat/clothes but it nonetheless irritates my skin.

    Are all Switches just like this? Maybe my first Dialga does it too and I simply never noticed. (In fact, I wonder if all devices too it to some degree. It might even be the root cause of my health issues as the older I got the more time I would spend in front of a screen.)

    This is unbelievable. It's as though videogames are just over for me. PSP and Vita and smartphones are the farthest I can go. Everything beyond that has air vents. Steam deck even has literal articles published about the smell it produces so I obviously shouldn't even bother with that. Maybe I should be trying less hard to introduce more devices in my life, and instead work on doing the opposite, and my QOL would improve.
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      Editing … did you buy it from a sweaty nerd? mine smells like nothing and I got it new. Even after all these years they don's smell like anything.
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      Editing … "It might even be the root cause of my health issues" most defiantly not. It would likely be lifestyle habits and/or anxiety in your case. You are overthinking things.
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      Editing … If you don't like to smell the air vents why not simply stop playing handheld? You can set the switch far away and play the game on a screen.
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      Editing … Yeah it must be because it's used. My other Dialga was bought new, never had issues. It's odd though that I had this issue with three different used Switch Lites but I encountered it only once on a Vita or PSP. (all of which were used, as I never once owned a new one)
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      Editing … I don't like buying handhelds used. Nerds or grubby children have been holding them for hours in the heat of the summer.
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      Editing … The good news is, I don't really notice it anymore. Maybe I just had to air it out. The bad news, it's still an unfathomably bad system. Worse than I remembered. The buttons suck. The eshop is all shovelware. There's this demo for Crypt Custodian which is kind of cute, but the game seems to have absolutely nothing to offer we haven't seen done before. It just happens to be much more decently made than the vast majority of indies and isn't blurry in handheld mode. That's where we're at.
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      Editing … The e-shop is pretty sucky. It has no good filter system. You just have to look up the games you want online beforehand. It's not an "unfathomably bad system" though. Then people would not be buying it. I like the buttons actually. The pro controller is also nice. Only the d-pad has no accuracy so that should be replaced in the next iteration. Still my favorite design for a console. I want all future consoles to be home consoles/handheld. Graphics are good enough now. I don't give a shit about graphics or frame rates beyond a certain point. I just want fun games.
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      Editing … The hybrid model product category comes woth this insane drawback where half of games are not optimized for handheld mode and look blurry. (I hope with Switch 2 they have the sense to make docked games run at the same resolution but somehow I doubt it because then they couldn't cheap out on the screen.) And that's assuming the game was even optimized for the system in the first place in docked mode, and often it wasn't due to it being a handheld system meaning it has weaker specs. It's this crippling flaw with the Switch that I didn't really appreciate the full magnitude of at first. Which seems to be a pervading feature of the Switch in general, it comes equipped with all these "stealth flaws" that you notice sooner or later.
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      Editing … You mean the Switch's screen is 720p? The screen is so small relative to a tv that the loss in resolution is not practically visible unless you be licking the screen up close. I have never seen a better screen on a handheld than my oled screen. It makes games look really crisp. "crippling flaw " you really like superlatives. You'll find a flaw in anything if you look hard enough. If you hate your switch that much though I'd be more than willing to "dispose" of it for you. Just send it to me and I'll "recycle" it for you free of charge. :-P
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      Editing … Switch is 8 years old by now and it was already using older tech. It's impressive what that did with it. Future hybrid consoles will have much more power to work with. I'm excited to see how that turns out but as I said: we're approaching the point of diminished returns with console power. There is not much to be gained anymore.
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      Editing … I no longer regret buying this 2nd Dialga. I've gotten so much mileage out of it by now it's practically paid for itself. It was such a good deal too. It's nice having a Lite that doesn't have my Pokemon save on it, meaning I can just focus on eshop titles and the backlog of games I've bought from my first 1-2 years owning one. Funny thing, wifi didn't seem to work when I first got it, but I looked up this trick where you make the DNS address all 008's, and that seemed to work immediately. If I really did fix it that just makes this even better. The left stick has some slight drift, but I decided not to fuss about it and just wait and see if it ever messes me up in a game instead of fussing about it in advance. The good news is that it does center when I'm not using it (so does it even count as drift really?) and that it's the left stick not the right so FPS are fine.
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      Editing … "The screen is so small relative to a tv that the loss in resolution is not practically visible unless you be licking the screen up close." I can't believe what I'm hearing. How do I even argue against something so demonstrably wrong. But there is a game called Tinykin, it actually has two versions of the demo for some reason. I've played both. The old version is blurry as shit while the other isn't. Try it. It's also perhaps why when playing PS1 games on a PSP or Vita the stretched image appears blurrier unless you select 1:1 in which case the image takes up a small portion of the screen surrounded by a black box. But it does appear sharper this way. At least with PS1 the pixels are so big and the visuals simplistic enough that a little blurriness is not going to ruin things. For a 1080p game it just looks like an impressionist painting. It's a god damn mess. Lastly. I cannot testify to this but I've heard people complain that Pokemon shield has pixelated text. The rebuttal to this was that the game was optimized for handheld mode, in which case the text appears fine.
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      Editing … Power is not relevant anymore. Most of the best games I've played in my life were on 6th or lower hardware and Ocarina of Time is still considered one of the best games of all time. So why would I give a damn about power. The problem is we are constantly chasing a moving target. Switch hardware is "weak" we need a more powerful one, and keep inventing new hindrances for ourselves. PS2 was "weak" and we were told we to shell out 599 US dollars for a PS3. But despite being vastly more powerful games ran at 20-30 FPS and games not having color due to memory constraints. Then we have Switch being divided between two different resolutions for a single console library. We apparently need worse battery life, more heat, more weight, more fans, none of which makes the games themselves any better, but people apparently are convinced it will enable them to play better games. Every time. Idiots.
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      Editing … "how do I even argue against something so demonstrably wrong. " It's not though. 1080p on a large screen has a much lower pixel density than a small 720p screen. Depending on how far you sit, the 720p screen will in many cases have a sharper image to your eyes. I'm not familiar with the game you are referring to, it could be that that game looks like shit in handheld mode but all games I've played look sexy I must say, so I don't know what you are experiencing.
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      Editing … "The problem is we are constantly chasing a moving target. " Yeah this here is the reason the games industry is in shambles right now. Budgets are high and they struggle to make a return on investment and studios just don't dare take risks anymore with such huge budgets. I liked it more when games were not that expensive to make. There were a lot of fun and creative games being made. The industry will hopefully realize this in time and choose a different strategy.
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      Editing … I like old man Yamauchi's design strategy of innovation with dated technology. I worked wonders for the gameboy and all Nintendo's most successful consoles have done it as well such as the Wii and DS.
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      Editing … 720p will display a sharper image only if the image is natively 720 or divisible. (e.g. 360) Anyway now that I like this Switch maybe I should give it my 128gb microsd from my old Switch. (before I upgraded to 512 for apparently no reason lol) It's currently in my OLED Vita which I unhacked and factory reset. In fact, now I own two Switches it may be time to just sell all my Vitas altogether. I may get a Retroid Pocket 4 also, so I have to decide whether to put the 128 in that instead, but maybe 128 isn't enough since PS2/GC/Wii isos will eat up a ton of space.
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