 Hey, it's Chaim with The Verge, and you're probably pretty familiar with the Nintendo Switch, but this isn't a Nintendo Switch. This is a Nintendo Switch Lite, which, as the name suggests, is a Switch, but smaller. This is our first chance to really try out the Switch Lite for ourselves, and it's a portable version of the Switch. It's sort of like a Game Boy to the Switch's console, almost. You can see the Joy-Cons don't detach. There is a proper directional pad instead of the separate buttons, which is fantastic to play on. Another weird quirk of the Switch Lite is there's no auto-brightness sensor. You notice that it's just there's no sensor on the front, so you can manually adjust brightness, but you can't have it automatically do that based on ambient light in the room. Over here on top, you have the power and volume, headphone jack, game card slot. Over here on the bottom, we have USB-C for charging, speakers, and over here, there's a microSD card slot because there's no kickstand either, because again, the kickstand is for the tabletop mode when you're playing with the Joy-Cons detached, and this can't do that. One thing I just want to also point out is just how nice the plastic is on here. Nintendo's done a really great job with just the physical materials. It's really great to hold. It's this nice matte, tactile plastic. It feels actually very similar to the plastic on the Joy-Con controllers. It's even lighter than the Switch is, and the Switch was already pretty light, and it's just really enjoyable to play on. Battery life for the Switch Lite is important because unlike the full-size Switch, you're only going to be using this portable, which means it needs to last a while. Fortunately, Nintendo says the battery life should be good. They're promising that it'll be better than the old full-size Switch, although the updated version of the big Switch is still going to have the best battery life. As for the rest, it still charges via USB-C. It still works with all your favorite games. It has a gyroscope, so any of the motion sensing stuff will still work, like aiming in Zelda or Splatoon. If you own a full-size Switch and you want to switch to a Switch Lite, you can actually transfer all your stuff over, and you're actually able to hook up additional wireless controllers like Joy-Cons or Pro Controller if you want to play games with more people locally on the Switch. But again, you can't hook it up to a TV. The other two big changes on the Switch Lite are the screen and the D-pad. The screen is obviously slightly smaller than the old Switch, although it still looks great. It actually has this sort of compressed effect, kind of like what Nintendo did back with the Game Boy Micro. It's still running at the same resolution, but because it's a smaller display, it actually looks slightly crisper than the old Switch. The other change is the D-pad. Again, because the Joy-Cons aren't detachable and you don't need to be able to use them as a sideways controller, there is a regular directional pad on here, which I greatly prefer and deeply wish I had when I was playing Celeste last year. The Switch Lite really isn't meant to replace the full-size Switch. If you're someone who really likes the switching nature of the Switch where you can use it on your TV or take it on the go, well, that's great, it's still here and it still exists. But if you're someone who just wants a really good portable console, and Nintendo's betting that there are people like that, the Switch Lite is great for that. And as someone who's owned a full-size Switch for the last, you know, couple years, I honestly do use mine in portable mode most of the time anyway, so I kind of get the appeal. The Switch Lite will be out on September 20th for $199, which is $100 less than the full-size Switch, and it'll be out in three colors, this blue, there's a yellow, and a dark gray. Thanks so much for watching. For more great videos like this, make sure to check out The Verge, like and subscribe, and now I'm going to go back to playing Zelda.