and this is the brand new Nintendo Switch.

Yeah, seriously it's actually new.

So alongside the Switch Lite,

Nintendo has also refreshed the standard Switch,

and really the only way short of looking

at something like a model number to tell the difference,

is by looking at the box.

As you can see this is an all red box

compared to the red and white one of the past.

TLDR; if you're buying a Nintendo Switch,

get the red box because this promises

significantly better battery life.

Now the good thing about the Switch

is that it actually doesn't cost anything extra,

and in fact, once we actually crack it open,

it should be kind of interesting to see the differences.

But on the outside this is essentially a Switch

exactly like every other model.

It takes a very keen eye to spot the

difference between the old and the new Switch,

but the main way to tell is by

looking at the model number.

So the original Switch is HAC-001,

whereas the new Switch is HAC-001-01.

Now it sounds like a very subtle difference

and especially when you look at the hardware it is,

however the brand new Switch,

promises up to two hours more battery life,

thanks to an all new Tegra processor,

which in theory, should deliver much,

much cooler performance as well as that better battery life.

Of course that's the question,

how much better is this new Switch?

So as far as I know there's actually no other

differences with the Switch on the actual unboxing side.

So some people have speculated that the plastic

on the Joy-Con's is a little bit different.

I'm not really sure, I mean I guess it- (sighs)

It feels...

No I think that's the same. (laughs)

Yeah no, these are the same. I don't think

they've really changed anything.

I know that there've been, some rumors

that there's like dust getting inside

the sticks and stuff but, as far as I can tell here

this looks exactly like the standard Switch,

and that being said, it is very easy

to accidentally get wrong version right?

- [Ken] Now, is this Switch,

going to be better, than this Switch?

- Are you literally just trying to

promote a video right now? All right well,

if you wanna see what this monstrosity is about,

you can check out this video right here,

where we built the Ultimate Switch.

Spoiler alert,

this is one of the Ultimate Switches we built.

Can't believe you're, promoting a video!

We just started this video and

now you're trying to get people to leave?!

You should watch this after you finish this video.

So with this brand new Switch,

the question really is not only how much battery

is the battery life, but how much better is this really?

Obviously it seems like a no brainer, right?

Same price, same everything, as long as you get

a red box Switch you're going to

get that better battery life.

But I'm really curious to see exactly

what is different with this,

and whether or not this gives us any

indicators of not only what the Switch Lite

will be like but almost not only importantly,

what the Switch Pro will look like.

So what exactly is inside this new Switch?

Well I have taken the liberty of taking apart

the old Switch as well as the new one,

and let's see what's actually different.

Ahem! That looks very similar! Um okay, so!

Batteries are both sixteen watt hours, so,

all the battery gains here really

do come down to the processor.

Um, I can notice some very minor differences,

uh, so this has different EMC flash.

Ummmm, ha-ha, that's uh,

that's about it.

So what's interesting about this

is that because it does have that upgraded

Tegra X1 processor, it means that in theory

this should be a cooler console,

and it certainly has better battery life.

However they have done absolutely no changes

to the cooling system that I can see.

Which means that you should still get that

same level of performance so even when it's dock mode,

if you were even remotely close to overheating before

this should be significantly better.

Which is interesting, because Nintendo probably

could have saved a few dollars,

by making this cooling system just a

little bit weaker, a little bit less robust,

because it's definitely overbuilt

for what this is doing right now.

However, at the end of the day it was

probably cheaper for them to just

swap out the SOC and call it a day.

The actual chip underneath is probably

smaller than it is here, so even though

from this vantage point I can't see,

lose almost certainly a sixteen nanometer

shrink of the twenty nanometer version of the X1.

So one of the cool things about the actual Switch itself,

is that it's a fairly powerful console,

but it's fairly powerful in sort of

the grand scheme of things,

because if you actually look at

the Tegra X1 which powers it,

it originally came out all the way back

in 2015 with the NVIDIA SHIELD TV.

Now at the time it was incredibly powerful,

but nowadays, it's good, but it's not exactly amazing.

And one of the main issues with this chip back in the day,

was that it was based on the twenty nanometer process,

which, long story short just was not very power efficient.

So the idea that they've shrunk it down to sixteen

on the brand new Switch, or I'm assuming sixteen,

but regardless they've shrunk it down on the new Switch,

it's pretty much entirely where these

battery life gains are coming from.

You can very much think of this as

the difference between the original PS4 and the PS4 Slim,

or, the Xbox One and the Xbox One S.

It's the same performance, same everything,

but because they've shrunk the processor,

it's gonna take up less power,

which means it's cheaper to produce,

and importantly for the Switch,

means that you've got better battery life.

Now Nintendo claims that this new Switch

can deliver almost double the battery life.

So specifically with Breath of the Wild as an example,

the Nintendo site claims that the old model

would get about three hours of battery life,

whereas the new model will get five point five hours.

That is, huge, especially given that we

now know that the battery is not any bigger

it's purely just an SOC change.

But of course we can't exactly take

Nintendo at their word, can we?

Yeah actually we kinda can.

We put both of the Switches head to head,

and essentially found that the results were pretty accurate.

So with the standard Switch we were

able to get two hours and forty one minutes of use,

compared to four hours and thirty four minutes

with the brand new Switch.

Now I will say there is a big sort of asterisk here,

in that the Switch automatically dims the screen regularly,

and we were using Super Mario Odyssey,

so it wasn't a hundred percent fair

as far as their comparison goes.

However both Switches were running at

the exact same time, they were both brand new,

a hundred percent battery, which I think

should be a huge indicator of just

how much better the battery life

on this new Switch is.

It's like, I mean it's the difference between uh,

two hour car ride and a four hour car ride.

I- If coulda come up with a better, example than that.

Almost immediately after the Switch was announced,

however, there were rumors about a Switch Pro,

but in this case, I think there's a lot to believe here.

It would make a ton of sense for Nintendo.

However if there will be a new Switch Pro,

it is certainly not coming out this year.

Nintendo of America's new president Doug Bowser,

just a great name, has gone on record with Scene At

as saying that the Switch Lite as well as obviously

this new Switch, will be the only new hardware this year.

There will not be any kind of Pro launching in 2019.

New and potential hint about the Switch Pro

comes from the FCC's website,

so in it, they posted a tear down of the Switch Lite,

which shows that the circuit board has the name

Valley on it as the code name.

Sounds not exciting right? Well it is!

On the original Switch there was the code name of Odin,

and as Valley was one of the son's,

perhaps maybe there would be a,

Thor? As the Switch Pro?

This is really into Nerd Town I will admit.

However there is actually better evidence than that.

A new one interesting tid bit from the FCC's tear down

of the Switch Lite, is the battery size.

So whereas the red box Switch as well

as the standard have a sixteen wide hour battery

the Switch Lite has a smaller thirteen wide hour cell,

but even with that, because it has that

more efficient processor, it still means that

you're getting that better battery life

than the original model.

However as of right now and at least

for the foreseeable future, the red box Switch

will definitely be the battery endurance champ.

Even though Nintendo is still silent

on whether or not we are going to get a Switch Pro,

the Japanese game site, Gamepedia, has got a ton

of rumors on some of the specs that we could expect.

According to them, the Switch Pro will ramp up

from four gigs on the current model up to eight,

as well as four times the internal storage.

Thirty two on the current Switch and Switch Lite,

and one hundred and twenty eight gigs on the Switch Pro.

All of which makes perfect sense for a pro console.

What will truly push the Switch Pro, however,

is going to be the actual spec inside.

So because the NVIDA Tegra X1 is fairly

old in the Switch right now, there is certainly

a lot of room for upgrades.

So not only does NVIDIA have other models

of the Tegra chip, but you can also imagine

a potential custom version which is specifically

meant for the Switch. Now, supposedly Nintendo

says that this is a custom chip,

but, by literally all accounts this is

a standard, off the shelf X1, so if they were

willing to do a little bit of customization,

perhaps adding some, retracing,

or some other cool features that NVIDIA has available,

they could really push the performance of this guy.

I do believe this will be based on the same architecture,

just because you want to keep that backwards compatibility,

right? I mean the Switch Pro needs to run standard

Switch games, and developers don't need to

necessarily develop a different version for each-

I mean, a game that works on the Switch Lite

should work on the Switch,

which will work on the Switch Pro.

However, with that extra power available,

it should mean that just like we see

on these standard consoles with the

Xbox and the Play Station Four,