Cokoyy Camera

Hardware Type: Camera

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Review:

When the Nintendo Switch 2 launched in 2025, it launched alongside two cameras specifically designed with Nintendo Switch 2 in mind: Nintendo’s own Nintendo Switch 2 Camera, and the Hori Piranha Plant Camera. I was severely unimpressed with both. I found both cameras to be vastly overpriced for the low quality image and framerates they provided, and Hori’s camera in particular was so bad I found it to be nearly unusable. While Nintendo Switch 2 could, in theory, make use of any USB-C camera, I still held out hope that some other third party would release a camera with a more reasonable price, better quality, or both. It didn’t take long for one potential candidate to present itself.

On paper, the Cokoyy Camera is maybe halfway between Nintendo and Hori’s cameras in terms of quality. Where Nintendo claimed their camera was 1080p and Hori claimed theirs was a laughably pathetic 640×480 (well under 480p), Cokoyy’s camera claims to be 720p. Yet despite this mid-point in terms of specs, it sells for under half the price either camera is currently selling for, at only $27.

Similar to Hori’s camera, Cokoyy’s camera is designed to plug directly into the top of the Nintendo Switch 2, and can either poke out a few inches above it, or can be plugged into a base to extend father out from the console. In addition to the camera, base, and USB-C to USB-C cable, this camera also comes with a little silicone cover for the camera, which doesn’t serve any functional purpose but some players might find it amusing to give their camera cat ears.

I should note that while this camera’s box shows a red and white camera with a green base, and the Amazon sales page includes one photo with a black base, the only color combination I could find for sale was the one I have here – a pink and white camera with a pink base.

When connected to its base, Cokoyy’s camera is shorter than both Nintendo’s and Hori’s. And in addition to the detachable base, one other feature that Cokoyy’s camera shares with Hori’s (but not Nintendo’s) is that it has a lens cover, a small white silicone disc that can be swiveled to hide the lens. While perhaps not as clever as Hori’s Piranha Plant jaws, this nevertheless gets the job done.

In addition, like Hori’s camera, the wire inside the camera itself is flexible and can be moved to adjust its viewing angle. However, there are two features that Hori’s camera can still boast that won’t be found in either of the others – its monitor clip at the bottom of its base, and… well, the fact that it’s shaped like an iconic Nintendo character.

However, let’s get to the really important question here: performance.

Given that Nintendo Switch 2 won’t let players take a screen grab of the camera test screen, I had to do the best I could to get an image for each of the cameras. I placed them in roughly the same position just pointing to the room, and then took a photo of this using my smartphone. Not exactly professional, but hopefully enough to give a rough idea what to expect. Then, I zoomed in using the smartphone to take a photo of a pillow featuring another familiar Nintendo character. You can see the results in the comparison image I took, but I’ll still discuss them here.

To start with, Hori’s camera is still absolutely awful. I didn’t realize it before, but apparently it zooms in and doesn’t give a wide image like the other two do? Weird. Anyway, the leap in quality from Hori’s camera to Cokoyy’s is dramatic – you can make out details like the Thwomp’s individual teeth and the design around its edges that are completely blurred out on Hori’s camera. Meanwhile, Nintendo’s camera is better, I think, but the jump from Cokoyy’s camera to Nintendo’s is nowhere near as impressive. Oddly, Cokoyy’s image is noticeably darker than the other two also, though this is more of a matter of preference.

I should also note that the framerate of Cokoyy’s camera is closer to Nintendo’s camera, which is to say that it’s still not great, but it absolutely demolishes the horrendous sub-1FPS framerate of Hori’s camera.

In short, I’m still not terribly impressed by Cokoyy’s camera, but I feel like the quality you get from this camera is far more justified than what you see in either Nintendo’s or Hori’s camera. Apart from the licensed character and the monitor base, this camera absolutely smokes Hori’s camera, and while I do think Nintendo’s camera does offer a better quality, I don’t believe that extra quality is worth paying double the cost of Cokorr’s camera. In other words, this is absolutely the best value I’ve seen so far in a camera designed with the Nintendo Switch 2 in mind. And… well, that’s a very low bar to go over, but I suppose it beats the other terrible, overpriced offerings that have been pushed as the standard for Nintendo Switch 2 cameras.

tl;dr – The Cokoyy Camera for Nintendo Switch 2 costs half the price of both Nintendo and Hori’s cameras, but absolutely blows Hori’s camera out of the water, and while Nintendo’s camera does edge out Cokoyy’s, it isn’t worth the extra expense. This still isn’t an especially great camera, but at the very least it’s priced much more reasonably for what you’re getting.

Grade: C

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