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The Switch 2's super sluggish LCD screen is 10 times slower than a typical gaming monitor and 100 times slower than an OLED panel according to independent testing

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Switch 2's IPS display probably isn't using overdrive.

A picture of a Nintendo Switch 2, in mouse mode, with Cyberpunk 2077 in the background
(Image credit: Future)

Nintendo's new handheld is certainly a smash hit. But one of the less impressive aspects of the Switch 2 is its 7.9-inch IPS display. Reddit has been alight with complaints concerning the speed of the display, with owners bemoaning the blurring and smearing of games. Now the results from independent testing are in and they're ugly. Empirically speaking, the Switch 2's display is super slow.

Our first data point is Monitors Unboxed. They found the Switch 2 returned an average pixel response time of 33 ms at 60 Hz. That's significantly worse than the slowest monitor the YouTube channel has tested, which came in at 19 ms, and far slower than a "typical" high-performance PC gaming monitor with an LCD display, which comes in around the 5 to 6 milliseconds mark.

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OLED displays like the Alienware 34 AW3425DW are about 100 times faster than the Switch 2's LCD display. Yikes. (Image credit: Future)

The Switch 2 has a pretty puny sub-20 Wh battery. For context, that's about half the size of the 40 Wh battery in the original Steam Deck. So, reducing power consumption has probably been critical. Indeed, Monitors Unboxed suspects that Nintendo may actually be undervolting the Switch 2's display to save power, which will only make the response worse.

As for what happens from here, the good news is that it may well be possible for Nintendo to add overdrive with a software or firmware update. It would certainly be nice to at least have the option of running overdrive, even if it does wallop battery life a bit.

Of course, in 2021 Nintendo followed the original Switch with an OLED model and no doubt a Switch 2 OLED is in the works, which will almost certainly improve pixel response performance radically. So, if you think you're the kind of gamer who is sensitive to the kind of smearing and blurring that's a consequence of slow pixel response, maybe hold out for the Switch 2's inevitable OLED relaunch.

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