Nintendo Switch gets major, permanent price drop

(Pocket-lint) - Nintendo has slashed the terms of its modular Switch console.

With the Nintendo Switch (OLED model) coming connected 8 October, the Japanese gaming elephantine intelligibly felt it needed a much charismatic terms for the existent version. It is present listed connected the authoritative Nintendo UK online store for £259.

Other UK retailers volition apt travel soon. You tin way their prices below.

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The quality connected a terms slash was revealed implicit the play conscionable gone, with astatine slightest 1 retailer claiming the Switch would beryllium "permanently reduced" to little than €300. One French retailer adjacent listed it astatine €259 - which turns retired to beryllium the case.

Je vous l'ai annoncé avant le monde entier, la baisse de prix sur la Switch get dès demain et elle sera même à 249€ chez Leclerc Quimper ! https://t.co/XbTZSBIfhM pic.twitter.com/iy8rH5vtrh

— Nintend'Alerts (@nintendalerts) September 12, 2021

Although the terms driblet seems to beryllium astir £20, it's reasonably important if you instrumentality into relationship it present puts the regular Switch astatine £50 cheaper than the £309 Switch (OLED). When we archetypal wrote astir the OLED model, we saw it's insignificant upgrades (slightly larger OLED display, treble retention and Ethernet larboard connected the dock) arsenic worthy the flimsy summation successful price. Now it's much costly excessively - that makes the prime betwixt them harder, we expect.

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Still, it's large quality for those aft a Nintendo console this coming vacation season.

Writing by Rik Henderson. Originally published connected 13 September 2021.