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This is a huge issue nobody is talking about. The reason the Switch 1 was so successful is because it was an accessible console to the core Nintendo audience without discrimination - children, women and modern, white collar men. For some reason companies keep designing these huge, heavy handhelds as if the people buying them were farmers and oil rig workers. It doesn't look like it's gonna be quite as bad as the Steam Deck, but honestly this needs to be addressed.
Only one game, Mario Kart World, was set up to work in handheld mode during play, and I was able to play three or so races before my demo time ended. But still, I could definitely feel the difference. Are my arms getting tired? Are they MORE tired than normal?
After the hands-on event, I spent time looking at the spec sheets for the Switch 2, the Switch OLED, the original Switch, and the Steam Deck to figure out exactly how much more weight I was feeling. The Switch 2, with Joy-Con 2 attached, is 534 grams (or 1.18 lbs). My current preferred handheld, the Switch OLED, is 420 grams (or 14.82 oz, a little less than a pound). And the Steam Deck, which I own but kind of loathe using because I feel like it’s too heavy, is 669 grams (or 1.47 pounds).
This kind of console weight preference feels very personal, and sometimes gendered. I also am nearsighted and hold my handhelds closer to my face than many people, thus possibly increasing my arm strain. But the Switch 2 is also a device that is targeted at children, especially with launch titles like the crowd-pleasing Mario Kart franchise, so weight is probably a factor for lots of people thinking about playing one for a while.
Looking at the percentage change, the Switch 2 is 27% heavier than a Switch OLED, and only 20% lighter than a Steam Deck. That’s not nothing! I’m concerned the Switch 2 might not be as ideal for me because of that increase.
Steam Deck, which I own but kind of loathe using because I feel like it’s too heavy, is 669 grams (or 1.47 pounds)
How do these low t creatures manage to get through the day? A cup of coffee weighs more.
pick up cup of coffee from table
take a sip
put it back down
Vs
pick up 1.5lb weight
have to hold it for 1-2 hours while you play
My 4 year old plays on my steam deck just fine
It's about the same weight as the PS Portal and I never see anyone complain that the PS Portal is too heavy.
What's your excuse now?
it's ok the battery only lasts 2 hours anyway
Switch 1 - the only controller that is physically painful for a non childlike hand haver to use
How does the portal weigh that much when it isn't even a real system?
One would have to actually use it first to complain
Non-white genes, please understand.
Said the man with childlike hands.
I haven't worked out in years and have muscle issues and I'm not anywhere near this much of a pussy. How the fuck can't you even lift a single fucking pound?
They're just looking for anything they can to shit on Nintendo. You have to remember gaming journalists loathe Nintendo.
have to wear a shirt and pants all day which is around 13-14 ounches, so close to a lb
God this is so difficult, the unbearable weight!
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imagine being a biological male and writing this without a shred of irony
So this is the real reason people are mad at the Switch 2, it's the Loser's Sisyphus Rock.
1.18lbs, enough to crush incels.
except the guy (male) who wrote this is categorically white you dumb timmy
I'm gonna get so fucking SHREDDED playing the Switch 2 in handheld mode. Gonna get fucking RIPPED. Fuck yeah.
Looks mutty
I hve both Switch OLED and Steamdeck OLED. You can feel the difference in weight. It mostly the size that makes it more annoying to take out though. On the side note, after I have used Steamdeck thumb sticks, I understand all this shitting on nintendo joycons.
How does it weigh that much when it doesnt even have any games installed
Should have drank more milk. It helps you grow up to be big and strong like me!
Definitely looks like someone who couldn't lift grass.
Well yeah, he can't even touch it.
that
White
You see Timothy everyone anon, you might be in love
The Switch 2 is like Mjolnir, you have to be worthy, and journalists will never be worthy of games.
Ian Walker
why would you edit this when the linked article clearly says Chelsea Stark?
It is just over half a kilo. The same as your average bottle of water. If this is unironically too heavy for you then you are no different to those actual basedboys who need to invent robots and 3d print grips to open their onions.
We need to address the fact that you're a tiny homosexual
tendies too weak to hold up a handheld
Kek
Such hard hitting journalism, I guess they ran out of misinformation to spread but still need to find something to complain about Switch 2.
The first switch wanted you to do exercises with it. This faggot needs to try em.
By the way, OP edited the name of the writer
Nobody complains about portal because nobody has it retard
That doesn't make it any better, it's 1.18lbs, not 30.
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Every single time.
Are my arms getting tired? Are they MORE tired than normal?
This kind of console weight preference feels very personal, and sometimes gendered.
I also am nearsighted and hold my handhelds closer to my face
Holy S O Y
But that's not a tendie. It's a journo.
faggot numales won't be able to play it
Survival of the fittest.
Too heavy
Holy shit wtf, this dude has no muscles at all?
Clothing is held by the strongest muscles in your body, which are intended to hold your weight all day.
this gameboy is too heavy for me
I wouldn’t admit that in a publication with my name on it
He may be a fag, but it's an issue for small children. My nephew (5) has trouble handling my 'eck, his fingers are too small to reach all the buttons.
This kinda shit is concerning. i am not a strong guy, hell, Id say Im a pretty weak guy, and I can hold a steamdeck upright while laying down for hours. You guys need to hit the fucking gym
You wear clothes on your tongue? Kind of weird anon. Also anon, it's not like a single lb is that much, if you can't hold that for multiple hours then something is seriously wrong, regardless of gender. Should probably see a medical professional.
I play tennis and my wrists are too sore in the evening to hold these things for hours
the weight is distributed a across your whole body.
if you has to hold your shirt, pants, wallet, phone and belt in a bundle in your hands with your arms held slightly out, you'd probably get tired of or uncomfortable holding it rather quickly as opposed to when it's on you
It's not a man. OP hid that the article was written by a woman who hadn't even held it but wrote the article based on what a pajeet said.
im starting to feel these articles are false flags by nintendo to make the people complaining about game prices look retarded
that makes more sense than someone complaining about having to carry 2 pounds of weight
How is this a problem, just sit it in your lap. Is everyone playing this like they're driving a car?
My nephew (5) has trouble handling my 'eck
Yeah that's not hard, even in the slightest.
Of course a pajeet would have trouble holding a one pound device. That's like asking a man to carry a car.
Why would Nintendo co-operate with their enemies just to make people look retarded when they do that themselves anyway?
Now it all makes sense, they can't even pick up their own shit, can't expect them to pick up a Switch 2.
even the first switch was too heavy. portable devices have gotten too big, and it has been this way for over 10 years now.
Beta male detected
fucked up elbow from like a month ago
worked out shoulders heavy yesterday
worked a fire last night
posting this comment from the gym now that i went to straight from work
going to home depot later to pick up heavy bags of gravel for my old man
But playing a switch is too heavy for this dude who likely makes more than me.
I hate this world and everyone in it.
Nobody has a Switch 2 either at the moment and yet here you are crying like a bitch about it
a console is not solely marketed to men with strong physique. your infantile brain lacks the capability of logical thinking. a console that is marketed to a wide range of demographics fails when it cannot be used in the way in which it is designed by a significant proportion of the people it is marketed towards.
shitendo forget their consoles are bought by kids, women and onions armed manchildren
Start doing wrist curls, you pathetic weaklings.
Does your 4 year old get zero physical exercise and exist on a diet of Onions? Didn't think so.
KWAB
can't wait to aura farm like piccolo with my switch 2!
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You need to be a powerlifter to be able to play Nintendo in 2025
What the fuck happened?
This article sounds like it was written by a woma-
Ian Walker
lmao
For real, anyone who thinks otherwise, go hold a gameboy and then hold your smartphone
a console is not solely marketed to men with strong physique
You're acting as if you have to be strong to hold up that much, hell, I've never been to the gym a day in my life and I can one hand 20 kilos without trying, I've never bothered to see what my max is either but I digress. Anyway, point is that unless you have some kind of debilitating degenerative muscle disease you're not going to have an issue holding anything that's 1 pound. By the way, you might not want to talk about "infantile brains" when you clearly don't know what a comma is you cuck.
Retard toddler can hold up their parenting substitute tablet computer all fucking day
This absolute omega-male worried about holding up a Switch 2
I’d call him a faggot, but I think most gay men would tell him to stop being such a pussy and lift some goddamn weights.
It was written by a woman
Onions numale or ad bait?
Why are handheld consoles all giant, expensive pieces of shit nowadays. Does nintendo really expect people to carry around a handbag to transport their console in? Why can't they release devices that fit in a pocket anymore?
women above 50kg are too heavy for me to enjoy
Good morning sir!
People have trialed them already, you know, the ones writing articles.
Work your forearms faggots. I work my daily on your moms.
He looks like a Filipino / Indian mix.
Who /here/ will buy it day 1 just to pirate it?
You're gonna be waiting a while, and that's assuming there's a blaring design flaw like with the Switch v1's Joy-Con rail.
You'll be waiting for a while (forever). S2 is gonna be so locked down it will never be hacked or emulated.
Hivemind
100 grams weight increase enough to make his arms tired
holy fuck how weak must this loser be? sounds like he'd die trying to do a single pushup.
not happening
It's just "journalists" making bullshit editorials to drive clicks for the same reason this thread has over 100 replies, to bait in people going "lmao this dude sounds like such a wuss"
Lift weights, lame ass nigga.
Probably because it reeks of 'ick
A flashcart will exist after a year or two
It'll just cost $100 and get patched out after a month or two, so switch 2 piracy is likely to be intermittent and require keeping a switch offline