Do you think the Switch OLED will be scalped into oblivion like Switches were last year?

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

I can't tell how popular it's going to be. I know a lot of people, myself included, were underwhelmed by it, but I also recall people not being too enthusiastic about Lite either, yet it was still hard to find anyway.

Thoughts?

 

[WhoBusTank69]

Yes, because it is a thing people buy for when they can't do anything and a chunk of the world is still stuck in their room unable to leave.
Even if that wasn't true, there are expectations( a la PS5) that neckbeards will pay highly inflated prices for their bing-bing-wahoo.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

Yes, and as an aside, gaming as a whole is rife with scalpers who have been in the business long before the coof and propaganda needle was a thing, but both will further embolden scalpers as desperate folk will continue to be lazy about their ebay searches.

 

[Dysnomia]

Yes, and as an aside, gaming as a whole is rife with scalpers who have been in the business long before the coof and propaganda needle was a thing, but both will further embolden scalpers as desperate folk will continue to be lazy about their ebay searches.

This.

There's no way around it.

 

[totallyrandomusername]

It will be a high demand item, there is no doubt.

 

[Marissa Moira]

Who needs a larger portable screen? Battery life is still ass, joycons still drift, so you're better off just plugging that shit into your TV.

What I want to see is people selling their switches thinking they'll be able to get the OLED day 1 and them now having no system to play. Or people dropping a couple grand on it because it will be "worth it".

 

[Kiras left nipple]

Only nintendo die hards, I feel it doesn't have the lustre of a ps5 or xbox series x.

We are in that odd next gen that hasn't quite kicked in yet, but even to the average Joe the switch is ageing pretty quick. That's why many were (stupidly) thinking a switch pro would be on the cards.

It'll prob be scalped, but strangely I see tons of switch lites used these days anyone else noticed this?

 

[Ed Special]

I believe the better question is: Who, beyond literal children and pod-dwelling bugmen, actually fucking cares? It's not as readily hackable as the Rev. 1 Switch, so you're still stuck with whatever $80 dogshit Nintendo decides to sell to you.

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

I'm imagining a Wii U situation.

Who the fuck doesn't have a Switch by now? The only people freaking out about this are Nintendo fanboys, the same retards who went out and bought a new Switch when the battery had a barely noticeable increase and they put it in a red box.

Scalpers will scalp this and either people nobody will buy it fucking them over and we laugh, or they'll take advantage of Nintentards and we still laugh.

It'll prob be scalped, but strangely I see tons of switch lites used these days anyone else noticed this?

No but I haven't been looking. It wouldn't surprise me though, the sticks probably took a shit on most of them by now.

 

[Takayuki Yagami]

I'm imagining a Wii U situation.

Who the fuck doesn't have a Switch by now? The only people freaking out about this are Nintendo fanboys, the same retards who went out and bought a new Switch when the battery had a barely noticeable increase and they put it in a red box.

Scalpers will scalp this and either people nobody will buy it fucking them over and we laugh, or they'll take advantage of Nintentards and we still laugh.



No but I haven't been looking. It wouldn't surprise me though, the sticks probably took a shit on most of them by now.

How common is the stick drift shit in reality? I have a launch one and haven’t had issues.

 

[BananaSplit]

How common is the stick drift shit in reality? I have a launch one and haven’t had issues.

I have the v2 model since last late November and I got one recent case of drifting so far that happened during a playthrough of Metallic Child, although all it took to fix was to put the console in sleep mode and wake it up again. I always wash my hands before using a controller, regularly clean my room, and I don't smoke either.

I heard it's a common problem for all modern controllers however, not just joycons in particular, and third-party alternatives can have even less durable analog sticks. There is a kiwi user that pointed out a visual characteristic of sticks used by Nintendo which can be found among third-party controllers.

 

[Gamepad]

How common is the stick drift shit in reality? I have a launch one and haven’t had issues.

Potshot, really.

There's people with launch models who play in handheld constantly and will probably never encounter drift in its entire lifecycle, and there's others who will encounter drift even though they leave it on its dock 95% of the time.

It's the sheer variance of it all that really highlights its poor quality. Something's that consistently very good, or very bad are fairly straight forward. Things that are 50/50 will result in people arguing on the internet over the reliability of it.

 

[totallyrandomusername]

If they improved the screen, without fixing the joy con issue, what is the point?

 

[Marissa Moira]

If they improved the screen, without fixing the joy con issue, what is the point?

Why would they fix the joycon issue when they can instead fix it and charge 100 more dollars for a new model joycon?

You're going to need those new joycons for your new OLED switch.

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

there's others who will encounter drift even though they leave it on its dock 95% of the time.

This is me. It just got worse and worse even though I play on TV 95% percent of the time with a pro controller .

I never liked the joycons anyway so I don't care. If I was going to play the Switch on the go I'd buy something more comfortable to hold.

But with the damn Lite, you can't do that.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

It's an electronic in 2021. Chance of being scalped is 100%.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

If they improved the screen, without fixing the joy con issue, what is the point?

It really is the most barebones console revision of its kind, ever. Not only are they not giving it a typical price drop, they're actually jacking it up, just because they're adding the quality screen they should've launched with like Vita did a decade ago.

Nintendo is nothing if not greedy and lazy.

 

[Marissa Moira]

It really is the most barebones console revision of its kind, ever. Not only are they not giving it a typical price drop, they're actually jacking it up, just because they're adding the quality screen they should've launched with like Vita did a decade ago.

Nintendo is nothing if not greedy and lazy.

It's mostly because they can't get really secure parts for future base model switches, so the OLED had to be made. They'll probably drop the OLED price in the future and discontinue the regular switch.

 

[Grand Wizard Wakka]

Seems dumb to spend extra money for something barely noticeable visually and nothing else. Then again people bought fucking cardboard for 80 bucks cause Nintendo...

Spoiler

I upgraded my base Switch to the extra battery life version when that came out, because (1) I pretty much exclusively play my Switch handheld because I travel and work a lot, and (2) I had really bad joycon drift develop right around that time, and Gamestop let me trade in my old Switch and get the new one for I think less than the price of buying new joycons.

 

[Ed Special]

I heard it's a common problem for all modern controllers however, not just joycons in particular, and third-party alternatives can have even less durable analog sticks.

I've yet to have any of the various $20 controllers I use with my PC start doing this, nor my SteamCon. Stop eating Nintendo's shitty excuses, podman.