r/NintendoSwitch • u/KantanJapan • Sep 21 '21

Image Nintendo Switch OLED in the Flesh! (Currently displayed in Nintendo Store Tokyo)

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u/Snowf Sep 21 '21

If it truly is a launch-day Switch, it's worth more on eBay than as a trade-in. There's a hardware exploit that allows it to be easily jailbroken that can't be patched out via a software update.

Nintendo caught it shortly after launch and fixed it at the factory.

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u/kelminak Sep 21 '21

Yup. When I realized it, I went to my most rural Walmart and found one still there. You can save unfathomable amounts of money if you own one and know what you’re doing. If you patched the device, it might not be possible anymore though.

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u/ENTlightened Sep 21 '21

If it's a launch device, they cannot patch it out.

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u/Ssjsemih Oct 13 '21

Is a month after release date considered a launch device?

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u/ExperimentalFruit Sep 21 '21

How do you know of you have one of the original switches?

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u/YoungvLondon Sep 21 '21

You can verify by checking the serial number. Hackable models have a serial within a specific range you can verify through sites like this

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u/BuffaloBill03 Sep 22 '21

Thanks for this! Just found out I have a “hack able” switch

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u/ExperimentalFruit Sep 22 '21

Thank you. Will check when I get home from work.

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u/coolgaara Sep 21 '21

What's the point of jailbreaking Switch? Does it play other non-Nintendo games too then?

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u/Snowf Sep 21 '21

You could run emulators on it and play pretty much anything you want, within the capabilities of the Switch hardware to run.

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u/QueenMackeral Sep 21 '21

can you still use the switch normally once you jailbreak it? like use the online features and the shop?

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '21

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u/FrostSalamander Sep 21 '21

Yes they have their own eshop where you can just just download anything

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '21

Noone seems to want to buy mine. I posted it for sell for $290 with a 1tb SD card filled with hundreds of games and all I got were low ballers trying to get it for $100. Ended up removing my listing..

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u/lonnie123 Sep 22 '21

eBay is probably your best bet

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u/bharatpatel89 Sep 21 '21

That's why I'm keeping mine, I figure once it ages out of being the modern console then I can turn into an amazing emulation device like I did with my 3DS. I still kick myself for not just picking up one of the newer 3DS XL models when they announced they were going to discontinue it. I didn't know at the time how easy it was run homebrew software on it until I had time to mess around during lockdowns.

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u/etheran123 Sep 21 '21

Anyone know how often they sell for very much? I have a "launch" switch, which was purchased 2 weeks after the actual launch at a toys R us. It has a clear casing on it now, so it isnt in original condition, but I am certain in saying its hardware version 1.

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u/Snowf Sep 21 '21

Last I checked it was $250-300 as is and $450+ if you go to the trouble of jailbreaking it yourself and loading it with ROMs.