BREAKING! Nintendo Announces Switch OLED Coming October 2021! #Shorts

In this YouTube #Shorts episode, we discuss some of the features on the newly announced Nintendo Switch OLED model, coming October 7, 2021.

Rumors have been swirling for years about a follow-up to the original Nintendo Switch. Call up the Switch Pro, the Super Switch, it just seems like rumors of a follow-up to the original will not die. One of the original rumors ended up becoming the Nintendo Switch Lite, but now the newest version has just been announced and is coming October 7th, 2021 for $349.99 USD in the Nintendo Switch OLED.

More of a derivative design than innovative, the Switch OLED seems to focus its updates more towards those interested in handheld mode, but there are some interesting additions here for those in TV mode. The biggest improvement to this new system being the 7-inch OLED display, an upgrade from the 6.2 inch LCD display. OLED should look absolutely beautiful, but we are curious what this will mean to battery life. The Switch OLED also includes new enhanced speakers for better sound in handheld mode as well. Additionally, while this is more for table top mode than handheld mode but the Switch OLED has a completely new kickstand design. Similar to what Microsoft has created for the Surface line of tablets, the entire lower half of the Switch OLED folds out to provide better support. This looks to be a huge improvement over the original.

For those who play in docked mode, Nintendo has designed a new dock with additional features. At this point we don't know if it's going to be backwards compatible with the original Switch or not, but if it was that would be big for those who own the original system. The biggest new feature on this dock is an integrated ethernet port. This is a welcome addition in one of the biggest criticisms of the original Switch, especially for those who have spotty Wi-Fi. It almost appears as though the Switch logo on the front of this new dock lights up, but that could simply be for marketing in the preview video.

To help you with saving to your Switch OLED, the on-board storage has been doubled, from 32GB to 64 GB. This still is not enough in my opinion, and there's little reason why this should not have 512 gigs or higher of onboard memory. Thankfully you should still be able to use a Micro SD card for additional storage. Word is that the CPU, GPU, and battery are unchanged from the original 2017 model. This is a huge disappointment to hear that there are no spec increases to reduce load times or improve the performance. Finally, the output resolutions are also unchanged from the original launch models at 1080p in docked mode and 720p in handheld mode.

Many have speculated regarding the next iteration of the Nintendo Switch and what it may have, and I don't think many anticipated that we would basically be getting simply a new dock, OLED display, and more storage. At least initially, I am underwhelmed and disappointed. We shall see if there is yet another new Switch somewhere down the pipeline, but I myself kind of doubt it.

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