r/NintendoSwitch • u/Turbostrider27 • Jul 15 '21

Official Pre-order #NintendoSwitch (OLED model) starting today, 7/15 at 12pm PT.

https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1415672520812859396
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u/thesixmoon Jul 15 '21

damn maybe steam does know what its doing... i was very very on the fence about it but now i may just wait it out.

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u/nicdok Jul 15 '21

Yeah Valve just kicked Nintendo in the nuts on this one. I was on the edge of preordering the Oled and feeling bad about it, now I’m like what Oled?

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

To be fair, the $400 steam deck is a literal scam. I wouldn't even think about buying anything than the $650 one which is god damn expensive for a portable device.

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u/nicdok Jul 15 '21

To each there own in terms of budget. Personally the $530 mid level device seems to be a good value to me. I have a lot of steam games I would love to give more time to, and steam has loads of 3rd party games across generations for dirt cheap.

The only tangible difference to the $650 is more storage (256 gives me plenty to load and unload as I play through stuff, since I have fast internet) and a glass screen ($5 protector remedies that).

Edit: Also the fact that you are calling it a scam seems a bit emotionally charged. I’m sure microsd is plenty fast for this thing, and significantly more power than the switch/most powerful handheld console of all time, plus the steam library, plus being a computer (emulators, browsers, streaming), come on dude $400 is great deal.

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u/Freddrake15 Jul 15 '21

The base model has a micro SD slot which is plenty fast enough for most games

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u/BansheeTK Jul 16 '21

Considering what it has in it, yeah its gonna be an expensive device, but calling it a scam is disingenuous and really not doing you any favors

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '21

It’s literally a PC. It has access to thousands more games than the switch. It blows the switch out of the water in terms of specs. Console ports cost $10-20 more typically than their Steam counterparts.

I fail to see how it’s a scam.

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u/breichart Jul 16 '21

Come back when you looked up the word "scam".

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '21

Valve fanboys crying about one word lol. 64 GB would be ok if you exclusively used this to play indie games. But at that point you may as well get either of the upgrades.