I like muted looks since it goes into a living room. Bought XSX over PS5 for this reason (among others). As to usefulness, it’s a toy. Making faces while overtaking someone in Mario Kart for all to see is pretty funny.

Yeah, I wanted this when it was originally announced but recall reading after that the specs aren't so good. We finally have the confirmation / review now.

TL;DR 640x480 This should be illegal. We had webcams like this 20 years ago. But Nintendo customers seem to enjoy outdated hardware. It's a tradition at this point

If you don't want to see others making faces, can you disable this?

It's a crappy 3rd party accessory. Haven't all consoles suffered similar?

If you don’t want to see their faces you have to stay in the lead.

Those camera modules for laptops are worth almost nothing with modern resolutions. How greedy can Nintendo be if they cut costs this way??? At least they didn't make it proprietary so you could use one of these modules instead if you solder a USB cable to it, for like 5$

This is a Hori product, official Nintendo camera is much better (but also kinda overpriced).

Oh, I missed that. That's actually a bit surprising since Hori usually makes very high quality stuff.

Hori are well-known for their high quality controllers of all kinds. It's pretty sad that they put out a piece of garbage like this.

I mean, it kinda makes sense as a webcam for only being used with the Switch 2... from a 'minimum viable product' standpoint. 4 picture in picture windows of 640 x 480 on a 1920 x 1080 screen? Eh, good enough, rofl. I mean yeah, this is a joke, I also had a 640 x 480 webcam 20 years ago... but its very clear Nintendo has pivoted to the 'milk all the accumulated goodwill out of our customer base' phase of grand corporate strategy. They've gone full Mr. Krabs.

but they also sell an official, better quality one, 1080p, without the flower [matt gray](https://youtu.be/RaM9XPTRl4w) made a camera cover for it

Absolutely no reason to buy it unless you love the design. Third party webcams will work with the switch 2.

lol, I can't make up my mind if it will be fun or annoying to play Mario Kart with you.

Charging premium while delivering worse than Ali-express

My experience with Hori has been terrible, highly rated controller went to shit in months with drift and buttons drop inputs when held down

Not in my experience, Hori shit breaks in no time. Modern madcatz garbage

Surprised you can even get such shit sensors anymore. Surely it's cheaper to get the mass produced HD+ ones nowadays? Or did someone find a warehouse of 90s trash?

I got the light version of this as a joke birthday present. It plugs into a USB slot and makes an anemic light source. Haven't used it much in summer but it might have some limited utility in winter.

That's unfortunate. Did you try anything with the warranty? I'm curious what that experience is like. I have a SF4 arcade stick that's more than 15 years old now, still going strong.