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1 NINTENDO SWITCH OLED VERSION
• £310, nintendo.co.uk
Long has the world waited for the fabled Switch Pro, but the world should have known that was not the Nintendo way. Nintendo’s console revisions are about iterative improvements: see the long history of the 3DS, the GBA Micro, even the redesigned NES, released at the end of that console’s life. None messed with the formula even slightly; they just made things better. Few drove any meaningful wedge between the haves and have nots – your old hardware was still good.
For this second revision of the main-line Switch hardware (the first of which was a quiet battery upgrade, stealthily pushed out in 2019) Nintendo sticks to those guns. It has a better, bigger screen. It introduces a few minor quality-of-life improvements. It packs in highly sexy (and very grown-up) white Joy-cons along with some additional storage. But the Nintendo Switch OLED version does not meaningfully change what the Nintendo Switch is. It
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