![]() As we put it in our extensive guide to OLED screen burn-in: "Burn-in is when a part of an image - navigation buttons on a phone, for example, or a channel logo, news ticker or a scoreboard on a TV - persists as a ghostly background no matter what else appears onscreen." One potential downside to OLED technology is something known as burn-in. ![]() Read more: Nintendo Switch OLED Joy-Cons may be less likely to drift Ghost in the machine I'm sure the new Switch will look a lot better. The display looks small and clearly worse, and the OLED display is already spoiling me." I haven't seen the new OLED Switch's screen in person myself yet, but in my years of owning the original Switch and countless hours of gaming on its LCD screen, I've found it mediocre at best in terms of contrast and color. In his CNET review of the Switch OLED, Scott Stein said the screen was "obviously better," adding "I don't want to go back to the older Switch now. OLED screens have better picture quality than LCD screens, mostly because they can produce a perfect shade of black, which creates better contrast and "pop," as well as more saturated, richer color. Screens today - on TVs, phones, laptops, tablets, smartwatches and, yes, portable game consoles - use two major technologies: OLED (organic light emitting diode) and LCD (liquid crystal display). But the majority of OLED TV and Switch owners don't have to stress over those pesky ghost images. Even though it's a lot smaller than a TV, that screen on the Nintendo Switch might ignite the same questions in your mind. ![]() You see, I review TVs for CNET and plenty of folks ask me about burn-in on the OLED TVs I've been recommending for years. I'm not worried about it for that shiny 7-inch OLED screen on the Nintendo Switch, and most buyers shouldn't be either. Whether you're still hunting Switch restocks or you just unboxed your own, you shouldn't be stressed about burn-in. Just like the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X, the Nintendo Switch OLED is a hot new game console that's been difficult to get your hands on. ![]()
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