When announcing the Nintendo Switch OLED, A concern had started to appear among players: is the screen ready to withstand very long gaming sessions? We had already started to tell you about it from July 12, recalling in passing what screen burns are, called “burn-in” in this case. To recontextualize, it is important to know that the pixels of a screen YOU ARE deteriorate as the product is used, displaying a static image on a screen for a long time accelerates the degradation of one group of pixels relative to others, which can in the best case cause dark spots on the screen and in the worst case burn a logo or image permanently on it.
Since the very noticed release of this new iteration of the hybrid machine of Nintendo, It is little to say that we have not had a negative echo about its screen and its longevity. One YouTubeur responding to the name of Wulff Den decided to check once and for all about burn-in on the screen of the Nintendo Switch OLED. To do this, he left the screen on for not less than 1800 hours, using a screenshot from the game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
So, does it burn or does it not burn?
The result is final, after almost 2000 hours of activity, the screen has only slightly weakened : the white of the ceiling is darker and the “bluish white” has started to turn slightly green. Wulff Den take this opportunity to reassure the players:
If you’re worried about OLED burn-in on your Switch because you’ve got around 2000 hours in a game, I think you can relax a bit. I don’t think this is a practical problem for anyone. I think maybe in about 10 years from now we could see it as a console home screen that got partially burnt out, but for the most part you have nothing to worry about.
How do you feel about this?