Wed. 07/10 - The New Switch Lite Drops The... "Switching"

Tech Brew Ride Home

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🗓️ 10 July 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Wednesday, July 10th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.7	The Nintendo Switch Light is a smaller, cheaper switch that doesn't actually switch.
0:15.0	HBO Max is ready for the streaming Thunderdome.
0:19.0	Is Slack falling behind Microsoft Teams?
0:22.0	An effort to close a funny tax loophole for crypto investors,
0:25.4	and at the end of this show, our first ever podcast classifieds.
0:29.8	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. So the rumors were true.
0:37.2	Nintendo has announced a new Nintendo switch console,
0:40.2	the Nintendo Switch Light, that comes in at $200, which is $100 cheaper than the original
0:46.8	switch. It's launching September 20th. And Light means Light. It's slightly smaller, sporting only a 5.5 inch screen, 720 pixels compared to the 6.2 inch screen on the original.
1:04.0	And that's only the beginning of the changes,
1:06.0	quoting from Tech Crunch.
1:07.0	The biggest difference between the Nintendo Switch and the Nintendo Switch Light
1:11.0	is that you can't connect the switch light to a TV.
1:14.6	There's no dock or port designed for TV connection.
1:18.5	That's not the only compromise you'll have to make as the JoyCon controllers aren't detachable.
1:23.6	You can't put your switch on a table and keep the controllers in your hands, for instance.
1:27.9	Of course you can buy JoyCon controllers or the more traditional Nintendo Switch Pro controller separately.
1:34.0	You'll have to find a way to charge your JoyCon controllers without the switch.
1:37.8	The charging grip could do the job, for instance, end quote.
1:42.2	So basically, it's a switch, but without the switching functionality, the
1:49.2	ability to switch between big screen gaming and mobile gaming.
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