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.
