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How to Use an iPad as a Nintendo Switch 2 Display
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My iPad Pro is my absolutely best gaming display though lol.
I love using moonlight on it! And 1ms latency is literally unnoticeable.
Wrong, it’s a constellation named after a Greek huntsman /s
Interesting use case and I'm sure it will be useful to some but I can't for the life of me fathom why I personally would take my dock, charger, iPad, MKB etc. to do this with a Switch 2.
I wonder, is there a way to get it to work with a 15" MBA? That display would be a real step up in size from the Switch 2 display.
I wonder, is there a way to get it to work with a 15" MBA? That display would be a real step up in size from the Switch 2 display.
13inches vs whatever a switch2 is AND the ipad pro screens are great, if you already have one and can get 1ms lag through a good video card/dongle SURE!
Summer trip, travel, student or just a nerd nerding out.. I can see the value. Saying switch screen "is great" and going up to 13inches isn’t better is just annoying to read ….when there is obviously a benefit. Is it as good as a great portable 4k 16inch screen? No, but that will set you back a decent amount AND is another piece of tech to lug around.
Why not get a small portable projector instead? I think I would do that instead of even a 16inch screen.
Would I buy an ipad pro for this? no. If I already have one and am travelling with kids? Heck yeah I would test it out.
Summer trip, travel, student or just a nerd nerding out.. I can see the value. Saying switch screen "is great" and going up to 13inches isn’t better is just annoying to read ….when there is obviously a benefit. Is it as good as a great portable 4k 16inch screen? No, but that will set you back a decent amount AND is another piece of tech to lug around.
Why not get a small portable projector instead? I think I would do that instead of even a 16inch screen.
Would I buy an ipad pro for this? no. If I already have one and am travelling with kids? Heck yeah I would test it out.
The low latency <1ms is only for passthrough. Good capture cards have 30+ ms latency for the capture, and bad ones can be closer to closer to 100 ms latency. Add on the controller's latency, and you're looking at multiple frames of latency even at 30 fps.
I’ve been using a capture card from my Switch 1 dock to Mac Mini/Studio Display since January. I don’t record gameplay and use OBS preview window in full screen. I’ve played Zelda BOTW, TOTK, Echoes of Wisdom, and various platformers for hundreds of combined hours. No issues with lag.
Pointless setup for me - all the extra spend on cables and capture cards to get a marginally larger screen.
The switch 2 is primarily a handheld games console with a decent size screen already - no need to carry and setup all this extra. Kinda defeats the purpose of getting a switch in the first instance IMO.
The switch 2 is primarily a handheld games console with a decent size screen already - no need to carry and setup all this extra. Kinda defeats the purpose of getting a switch in the first instance IMO.
To each their own of course and you might have very nice trains in Canada
But even in first class mosts trains I’ve been on in multiple countries don’t have massive tray tables.The thought of having a 13 inch iPad, a capture card, a Switch in its dock, a power supply, an external controller, and multiple cables connecting all those things together around me while on a long train journey doesn’t sound too attractive to me in terms of confort vs just using the Switch handheld (and while on the tray table the iPad screen will be a bit further away from you the using the switch handheld, so it might not be better in terms of spotting small things in the screen while playing, not to mention the input lag linked to the capture card and the software showing the image on your iPad).
To be clear I am not denying that an OLED iPad Pro has a much nicer display than a Switch 2, but I'm just thinking almost no one will do this in practice and for the few people who try a lot of them will find that for the few use-cases they had in mind, the practical drawbacks outweigh the benefits they had in mind.
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Isn't the entire point of a Nintendo Switch, is that you can undock it and it has a screen built in, so you shouldn't need an external screen like an iPad?
You don't even need to take the dock with you on holidays as you can charge the switch without the dock.
Now if they posted a way to connect your N64 or PS1 which you have hacked to be portable and run off a battery, that would be a different story.
I have a 15" 1080p USB-C display that I bought off of Amazon for $50 that works great for this. No Switch dock needed.
I’m pretty sure you can just plug directly from the switch to the USB C monitor. As long as the monitor is also powered.
Try Vidzik. It also can be used on Silicon Macs as well.I got the Orion app and their recommended HDMI-to-USBC dongle a while back and was not impressed with it
Not even talking about latency. It simply didn't look like a clean digital feed - various image artefacts visible.
The Switch has always been able to be used as a docked console connected to a screen, that's why you can detach its controllers and combine as to act separate controller. The Switch screen even has a kickstand so you can use the separate joy cons while it stands on a table.Isn't the entire point of a Nintendo Switch, is that you can undock it and it has a screen built in, so you shouldn't need an external screen like an iPad?
And if you saw the Switch 2 screen, it's almost the size of a iPad mini.Isn't the entire point of a Nintendo Switch, is that you can undock it and it has a screen built in, so you shouldn't need an external screen like an iPad?
Yeh - I just returned mine for refund. Got caught up on the hype - great hardware, but with the lack of switch 2 games in the first instance, I was playing switch 1 games on it!