It’s probably not worth running out and buying a Switch OLED just for the extra 20 minutes of gameplay, but it’s a nice perk if you’re already committed to getting one. In an apples-to-apples battery test, the Switch offered an hour-and-a-half more battery life than the Switch Lite or launch-model Switch, and 20 minutes more battery life than the current base Switch. Still, if you wanted some hard data about the Switch OLED’s battery life, there you have it. It’s a benefit, to be sure, but a limited one.
That equates to an extra 20 minutes for demanding games, and perhaps an extra 35 minutes in less-demanding games, if we extrapolate out. Furthermore, the Switch OLED was 7% more efficient in our tests. However Nintendo engineered the OLED screen, it seems to be a little more efficient than its LCD counterpart.Īt the same time, our test wasn’t rigorously scientific, so it’s hard to say whether the OLED will have better battery life for every single game, under every single circumstance. For instance, the battery will last approximately 5.5 hours for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. While OLED screens have the potential to drain more power than traditional LCDs, they also have the potential to be more energy-efficient, particularly when displaying darker images at low levels of brightness. The battery life will depend on the games you play. The Switch OLED’s screen is actually a little less bright than the base Switch’s, but offers better contrast due to deeper blacks and richer colors. The answer is “not necessarily,” thanks to OLED’s unique properties. Shouldn’t those drain more battery than the base model? This version of the console has a larger, more vibrant screen and bigger speakers. It also lines up with our anecdotal testing, in which Metroid Dread ran for about 5 hours on the Switch OLED.Īt the same time, the Switch OLED’s better battery life seems counterintuitive. To be fair, both numbers are perfectly in line with Nintendo’s estimates, which peg both the base Switch and the Switch OLED at 4.5 to 9 hours of battery life. The base Switch lasted for 4 hours and 40 minutes, while the Switch OLED lasted for 5 hours on the dot. The real horse race was between the 2019 base Switch and the Switch OLED – and this is where we found a surprising result. Our well-loved launch model Switch fared only a little better at 3 hours and 29 minutes. Unsurprisingly, the small Switch Lite had the shortest battery life, clocking in at only 3 hours and 18 minutes.
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