First thing I did was boot Mario Kart World, at first I was impressed because I'm a TCL 6 series R646 (2021 model) Mini LED user and the high apl made me finally feel like Mini LED was being used with all its benefits in this new game, then I went in the cave and noticed the lack of depth and darkness in the image, then I noticed how it's all kinda very bright and there's no spectacular highlights. Now I looked it up and many users online are saying the same, the HDR is seemingly just a tweaked SDR presentation with no highlights or darkness depth just loud high APL with no depth or detail. I think the high APL (average picture level/brightness) makes sense for this game but I am disappointed in the lack of depth in the darker scenes. This bluesky post by the RenoDX dev backs up my anecdotal feelings and hypothesis with evidence
https://bsky.app/profile/clshortfuse.bsky.social/post/3lqvxi6dnn225
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"The #hdr on #Switch2 is unfortunately faked SDR (oversaturated and jacked up highlights).
Here's Native HDR versus SDR with BT2020 gamut mismatch and ramped up inverse tonemapping."
There is also a new article that came out today about how broken the HDR is in Mario Kart World please read it if you get a chance.
https://www.alexandermejia.com/from-sdr-to-fake-hdr-mario-kart-world-on-switch-2-undermines-modern-display-potential/
How do you people feel about this situation, are you disappointed that it seems that there's yet another major developer who can't get HDR right? For context I'm talking about the docked HDR presentation not the handheld mode presentation. How about other games like Mario Odyssey, BOTW, and EOW? I've only tested Mario Odessey and it looks solid, better than Mario Kart World definitely, more balanced. And I haven't gotten around the teting Mario 3D World Plus Bowsers Fury extensively but when I do I will report what I see. Also please tell us what TV brand, model, and settings you are using, this may help us figure out what's going on brand to brand and model series to series. Thank you for reading this.
by thelastsupper316