This jumbo Nintendo Switch screen is completely impractical and I low-key love it

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I have a soft spot for ridiculous gaming accessories. If I had to guess, I’m sure that fondness comes from my childhood, when I didn’t know the difference between an official peripheral and third-party junk. I can remember seeing ridiculous GameBoy screen magnifiers and wishing my parents would buy me one. Who cares if it made the handheld clunkier? I just thought it looked cool.

When I first saw the Orion, a portable HD monitor that turns the Nintendo Switch’s screen into a 11.6 inch IPS display, that feeling came flooding back to me. The adult part of me knew that it was a completely impractical peripheral. It would functionally destroy the Switch’s easy portability and it seemed like way more of a pain to transport than the console’s TV dock. But the kid in me could only see that GameBoy screen he never got to try. I couldn’t resist.

After using the Orion as a Xenoblade Chronicles 3 companion, both parts of my brain have come to a compromise. My grown-up self, the one that thinks about responsible spending, can accept that it’s a ludicrous thing to spend $300 on. But that hasn’t stopped me from enjoying my time playing Switch games on a supersized monitor.

The Orion by Up-Switch is a genius idea that makes less sense the more you think about it. It’s a lightweight monitor built to triple the Switch’s screen size while still maintaining the ethos of the system. To set it up, all I had to do was plug the Orion into an outlet, slot my Switch into the back of the device via its charging port, and dock my Joy-Cons in the monitor’s built in-grips. Voila! I now had a gigantic Switch.

Let’s get the absurdity out of the way. The idea of using this as a portable device is laughable. While you can hold it like a Switch via