News on January 10, YouTuber@Wulff Den let switch OLED continuously display the same static picture for more than 1800 hours (75 days), and the device did not appear obvious screen burning.
Wulff Den said:
After the test, I did a color test, saw almost no change, and there was no obvious burn screen trace after nearly 2000 hours of boot. If anything has changed, it's that the white is slightly dull, and the blue-white has a little green, but it needs to be seen very closely.
(Source: Nintendo)
1800 hours is converted into daily use, calculated based on the average daily use of three hours of Switch OLED per player, even if there is an hour of time every day, the same screen is displayed in a certain position, and more than 1800 days (4.93 years) will not have a significant impact. This is already the level of heavy players, for light and moderate players, there is no need to consider the problem of burning screens.
On August 3, 2021, Nintendo officially responded to the OLED Switch's "burn-in screen", saying that image residue may indeed occur, and users can prevent the screen from becoming too bright and reducing the screen display time by using the auto brightness and auto-sleep functions.
In fact, companies want users to dispel their concerns about burning screens, and can come up with rigorous laboratory test data, and players will decide whether to buy products through test results and their possible use cycles.
Switch OLED's 7-inch 720P OLED screen comes from Samsung and uses an RGB-like arrangement. At present, Samsung will generally use this arrangement on devices above 7 inches, and it may not achieve high resolution in a limited size like the diamond arrangement, but in this test, the durability of this screen is still very good.
(Source: Wulff Den)
Its size of blue and green subpixels is relatively large. The life of blue subpixels is much lower than that of red and green, and increasing the pixel area can extend the service life. Small partners can slightly note the RGB arrangement of Samsung, its pixel density is not much discounted, and it may not be easy to produce burn-in problems.