New Nintendo Switch officially announced

[PoetPhilosopher]

Nintendo Switch OLED model - Nintendo - Official Site

Slightly larger and much better looking screen, double the storage, boosting it from 32GB to 64GB, and probably faster performance resulting in better graphics. $50 more than the old Switch. Comes out October 8th.

I'm excited, will get one because I enjoyed the Switch and I want to upgrade, and also am awaiting to see information on whether they do preorders.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

I'm seeing some skepticism online whether the unit will be any faster than the old. However, it will have an OLED screen which will look really good when playing it as a handheld. The old had just LCD.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

This just in: Nintendo confirms Switch OLED doesn't have a new CPU or more RAM - Nintendo Everything

 

[pearl]

That's just great, one more thing my grandson absolutely has to have!

 

[Brickjectivity]

Nintendo Switch OLED model - Nintendo - Official Site

Slightly larger and much better looking screen, double the storage, boosting it from 32GB to 64GB, and probably faster performance resulting in better graphics. $50 more than the old Switch. Comes out October 8th.

I'm excited, will get one because I enjoyed the Switch and I want to upgrade, and also am awaiting to see information on whether they do preorders.

Will it be good enough for 50 year olds to play? Most of the handhelds have tiny screens.

Also when kids are playing and want others to watch them we can't. We can barely see over their shoulder.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

Will it be good enough for 50 year olds to play? Most of the handhelds have tiny screens.

Also when kids are playing and want others to watch them we can't. We can barely see over their shoulder.

The screen will be 7 inches. Which is slightly larger than your average smart phone's screen.

 

[Brickjectivity]

The screen will be 7 inches. Which is slightly larger than your average smart phone's screen.

I hope the viewing angle is better. With the switch you can barely see unless your face is directly in front.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

I hope the viewing angle is better. With the switch you can barely see unless your face is directly in front.

Yeah. That I'm not sure about yet as I haven't looked up that information regarding OLED displays and even if I did, who's to say it wouldn't use a less expensive OLED with a poor viewing angle...

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

So just so that I'm on the same page with everyone, I wanted to say that initially I thought that the new Switch would be more powerful. But it won't be. Any graphics enhancements will come from the new, pricier screen Nintendo is using, and while using it as a handheld. I don't really believe that when docking it to the TV, that it will look more graphical, as it's using the same old technology that can't really be used with new technology for things like 4K upscaling, I don't think. I don't think that if the Dock has its own processor in this new one, for like upscaling, that it could upscale to 4K, either, as to do so, I think they'd have to update the processing chip in the handheld system too so it can connect to the 4k Dock chip, which they didn't.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Will it be good enough for 50 year olds to play? Most of the handhelds have tiny screens.

Also when kids are playing and want others to watch them we can't. We can barely see over their shoulder.

You can actually hook up your switch to the television, full picture, I really like that feature.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

You can actually hook up your switch to the television, I really like that feature.

Yeah. Everything but the Switch Lite can hook to the TV.

 

[Stevicus]

Back in my day, we used to have to play video games barefoot in the snow.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

Back in my day, we used to have to play video games barefoot in the snow.

Now that those days are no longer around - the snow rejoices.

 

[Brickjectivity]

Back in my day, we used to have to play video games barefoot in the snow.

We threw our video games at each other until one of us was dominant. There was no 'Save' or 'Go back', no extra life.