Without warning and taking everyone by surprise. Nintendo has unveiled a new revision of its Nintendo Switch console. Which will be officially launched and in almost everyone on October 8 for a price of 350 $. Although we have to give bad news to our Latin American readers from the start, this model will not be launched in this market.
Nintendo Switch OLED, new hybrid console model
The new hybrid console model, called Nintendo Switch OLED, does not result in a more powerful model than those already on the market, since it has no more powerful SoC and no faster memory than the model that is sold today
The first of these is the OLED display of this model, which gives this model its name. It is a 7-inch panel with a 16: 9 aspect ratio and 720P resolution. There was therefore no increase in resolution. However, we cannot forget that OLED displays have lower power consumption than IPS. As the rest of the hardware is identical to existing models on the market, this means that the battery life will be longer between charges. Although the screen is a bit larger in its diagonal, the body of the console is the same. It therefore supports the same accessories as the current models.
Another internal change is the 64 GB eMMC storage memory usage, which is twice as many as the models released so far. So with this model it is less necessary to buy a microSD card to expand the storage capacities of the console.
New Switch, New Dock
Another change that has been included in the OLED switch has been the inclusion of a new dock. Which, unlike many expected, doesn’t include hardware to scale images to 4K. What is its novelty? Inclusion of a LAN or Ethernet port this will help its users to be able to download Nintendo Switch games with faster bandwidths or play those that work in the cloud and have a client for the Nintendo console.
The new dock, despite being sold with the new console model, will be fully compatible with current models, but only through Nintendo’s own online store.
