For a while now we’ve been covering the Nintendo Switch, specifically the new models, such as the Switch Lite, which is smaller and exclusively handheld. Nonetheless, there is a second-generation, or “HAC-001(-01),” Nintendo Switch which is slightly more powerful, features a longer battery life, and is nothing more than a slight upgrade. However, many would like to question the battery life as the initial Switch could only run its flagship title, Zelda: Breath of the Wild, for no more than three hours at most. With the second-generation Switch, Nintendo has said the same game should last a little longer at about five and a half hours.

Well, this new Switch is up for sale in some regions, and it is performing as Nintendo has expected. In the land down under, where spiders are huge and Priscilla is a Queen; and Hong Kong, the new switch model has been released. Now people are testing the battery life to validify Nintendo’s statements. It turns out, according to a video by the Taiwanese YouTube Channel MeeMeGame, Nintendo was right on the money with this new Switch lasting five hours thirty-six minutes and two seconds running Breath of the Wild.

Does it mean you should be upgrading yourself? Well, no. Simply it is nothing more than an extra two or so hours of battery life on something you may already own. If you don’t have the first-generation Switch? I’d recommend jumping on that so you can sit on the toilet for longer playing video games. As far as we know, this slightly updated version will not feature a higher price tag, though there are identifiers to tell which one you are buying. As Taylor said last month, most notably the serial number will start with “XKW,” not “XAW.”

Nintendo claimed upon the announcement that the XKW model will last between four and a half hours, to a massive nine hours. If the latter’s numbers are true, I know I’ll be defecating for many hours while playing Two Point Hospital.

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