This Nintendo Switch is so large that you can read the text in Skyrim

It is rumored that Nintendo has been working on a larger switch for some time, which could appear later in 2021. But YouTuber Michael Pick is not waiting for a new model from Nintendo – he’s gone and built his own bigger switch.

It turns out to be much larger: almost six feet wide, compared to the Switch’s usual 9.4-inch size.

‘I like the Nintendo Switch a lot. It’s small, portable – but it’s really easy to lose. And for me, that was a problem. So I decided to put it right by making something a little bit bigger, ‘Pick said. This is a bit underemphasized when Pick’s supersized model (which he says is the world’s largest) is compared to the original.

The gigantic version of the Switch is less of a portable console and more of a fine wooden frame for a 4K TV screen, with 3D-printed buttons and a real (regular size) switch hidden inside. To make the buttons work, a smaller Joy-Con controller is stored inside with several servomotors that translate the presses on the large buttons to the actual hardware inside. The joysticks are even simpler: just massive, 3D-printed joysticks with rubber bands on top of the smaller Joy-Con joysticks.

Of course, the large, custom Switch loses some of the usual portability of the Switch: at £ 65, it’s not something you can easily carry. And if one wants to quarrel, Pick’s Switch is not technical fully functional, without a touch screen and removable Joy-Con controllers (this makes it more of a giant Switch Lite in practice than a giant standard Switch.)

The lack of portability should not be too much of a problem after all, as Pick is the custom console at the St. Jude Children’s Hospital donates.