Nintendo Switch – OLED Model w/ White Joy-Con
[{'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Don’t you just love it when Amazon lets scalpers charge $820+ for a console that is suppose to retail for almost a third of the price? It’s even worse that the switch targets a large portion of young children.\n\nDon’t pay Ridiculous prices, it’s worth the wait.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Internal spec wise there’s not much difference to the original switch. However that screen just looks so much nicer and bigger than anticipated in person. It’s just one of those things you can’t gauge in pictures. You just gotta see for yourself personally. You really notice the difference side by side.\n\nIf you don’t have a switch yet. Pick this up!\nIf you already have a switch and money isn’t an issue, sure go ahead and upgrade. You deserve to treat yourself!\n\nIf the two above don’t apply to you. Don’t worry. Your OG Switch or even Switch Lite is just fine.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Over double the price on release date. Makes me sick.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Glad I did the upgrade to this version. The screen makes a huge difference.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'This moderate upgrade of the Nintendo Switch is definitely worth spending an extra $50 to get if you are already in the market for a new Switch. The most important question though, is if it\'s worth it for the people who already own a Switch. This depends a lot on personal preference as well as how old your current switch is (and if you own the original HAC001 from 2017-2019 or the V2 that released in late summer of 2019). I mostly play in handheld mode because that is what this console excels at, for playing on a TV/Monitor, there are plenty of better options.\n\nSo what do you get with this OLED model? You get a larger screen that is OLED instead of IPS LCD. This is the type of screen that most iPhones have used since 2017 (and all of them use it now except for the SE2). You get a better contrast ratio, meaning deeper blacks and brighter colors/whites. There is no HDR support like Dolby Vision or HDR10, but it still looks leagues better than all the other Switch models. The smaller borders around the screen make the device look more modern and it\'s the size they should have gone with from the beginning (even if the logistics of using OLED wasn\'t feasible in 2017). There is also improved speakers, they do sound better and make the games your playing sound larger and more immersive. It\'s not as big of a difference as the new screen is to the old screen, but it\'s still a good thing to include.\n\nAnother new features is a better kickstand that is more like that of a Surface Pro tablet, allowing the Switch to be able to lean all the way back and be much more sturdy while doing so. This isn\'t really important unless you play in tabletop mode, but this is more realistic of a way to use this console with the screen being just that much bigger, I could see myself using a Pro controller and sitting the switch down for certain types of games.\n\nThe last difference here is the dock, which has a built in Ethernet port, which you should really use if you have the option to go wired. Unlike in the previous model "regular Switch", a wired connection is basically twice as fast as using standard WiFI, before it was only about 1.5x as fast. It still is unfortunate that you cannot achieve 100Mbps download speeds, but 60-65 is better than the 40-45 I was getting on my older model.\n\nIf I had to oversimplify who should buy the OLED model, I would say that these two types of people should buy the OLED (even if they already have a Switch Lite or V2) It would be: techie people who are nerdy about their tech and want the best they can get (even when they don\'t need it), and serious gamers who sink hundreds and hundreds of hours into playing the Switch in handheld mode.\n\nAlso, I don’t know that we need to specify this anymore because the switch OLED has largely been in stock since early January. But I did not and would not pay one penny more than $350 (plus tax) for this console. I think it’s worth that price if you love Nintendo characters/games, but I don’t think the hardware is worth more than $400 and the tax gets it pretty close to that.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': 'The bots gobbled them up to sell for $2,000....'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Wtf why does it cost 850 dollars it’s not in 4 or 8k definition it’s just has a bigger screen not much has changed from 1st generation. I own both the lite and second gen was going to buy this one also. But not for this price Nintendo on some other crap. It better suck a golf ball through a hose for that price!'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Why they take advantage of the situation that there are not many, selling it so expensive'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'at total random luck I was fortunate enough to get this on a pre order here! first it gave me about a month delivery date, which soon turned into the better part of a solid 2 weeks!, so happy when it arrived! love the new system, bigger and brighter screen etc! only pain was the wifi issue setting up, but this seems to be a known and incredibly easily fixed problem. simply YouTube it on the OLED model and just follow the video, it takes 30 seconds and its fixed.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "I absolutely love the product. I had a spat when I got it. It didn't have a charger for the dock. However talking to Amazon Support they corrected it for me and I was able to get a charger off the store. With the Switch Oled, you not only are able to have a bit more vibrant colors, but the system itself has great battery life. I had the original switch and this is leagues better. I literally had the switch in my bed for 4 days playing off and on and within those 4 days the battery went as low as 30% and the charging happens fairly quick, not to mention you can dock it and play it while it charges on a big screen tv.\n\nSO IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT A SWITCH IS OR HOW IT WORKS LET ME EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCES\n\n1. theres 3 versions\n- Switch (original one with a dock and can be played on a tv w/ a smaller screen than Oled)\n- Switch lite (the hand held version with no dock and can't be played on a tv)\n- Switch Oled (newest one, vibrant colors on screen, Larger screen, and has a tv dock)\n\n2. Games\n- The switch is one of the better nintendo systems that have more 3rd party games on it, although the selections are smaller than the Playstation and Xbox, the switch gives you versatility to not only bring it with you on the go to play games, it gives you the action to play with multiple people by separating the joy cons (controllers) and with that you can use each one sideways as a controller allowing two people to play and with multiple joy cons you can have a session of multiple people.\n\n-It has both digital and cartridge games. the cartridge games are very small, and they also have a fast install time. The games are very fun to play and have lots of multiplayer options. No full VoIP on the system but they have an app for cellphones to use.\n\n- the store usually has great deals on titles as most of the cartridge games cost full price or barely have anything discounted at places like Target, Walmart or Gamestop.\n\n3. How they work (docked versions)\n- a docked Switch connects to the TV, it allows the device to charge and you can play games as it charges on the dock.\n- it has a tabletop mode where you can play games on the screen as a tv. In other words you can still use a controller but have the tablet part standing upwards as you use a full controller to play on it.\n- Handheld is where the Joy cons are attached to the tablet and you use it like a handheld or similar to a gameboy or something in that way.\n\nPersonally it's worth the money and Nintendo has usually very good systems that last a long time. Although they might not be the best graphically they have some fun family friendly first party games."}]