Nintendo Switch OLED
Variant of Nintendo Switch
- Manufacturer
- Nintendo
- Released
- 2021
- Generation
- Gen 9
- Type
- Hybrid
- Launch price
- $349
- Media
- Flash
- Units sold
- 155.9M
About Nintendo Switch OLED
The Nintendo Switch is a video game console developed by Nintendo and released worldwide in most regions on March 3, 2017. Released in the middle of the eighth generation of home consoles, the Switch succeeded the Wii U and competed with Sony's PlayStation 4 and Microsoft's Xbox One; it also competes with the ninth-generation consoles, the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.
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Library & collector facts
What's different from Nintendo Switch
- 7-inch 1280x720 OLED screen (vs. 6.2-inch LCD)
- Wider adjustable kickstand
- Improved dock with wired LAN port
- Doubled internal storage (64GB vs. 32GB)
- Enhanced built-in speakers
- dock: Plastic-edge dock → redesigned dock with detachable back and Ethernet port
- kickstand: Thin flimsy flap → full-width adjustable stand
- screen technology: LCD → OLED with deeper blacks and HDR-ish contrast
Lineage
Pricing
Launch price (2021)
- 🇺🇸 USD
- $349
Controller
Joy-Con / Nintendo Switch Pro Controller
Launch titles & exclusives
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild · 1-2-Switch · Super Bomberman R · Skylanders Imaginators · Just Dance 2017 · I Am Setsuna · Snipperclips · Shovel Knight · Fast RMX · World of Goo
None — 1-2-Switch (the launch tech demo) was sold separately, drawing criticism
Breath of the Wild · Tears of the Kingdom · Super Mario Odyssey · Mario Kart 8 Deluxe · Super Smash Bros. Ultimate · Animal Crossing: New Horizons · Splatoon 2 / 3 · Xenoblade Chronicles 2 / 3 · Fire Emblem: Three Houses · Metroid Dread · Pokemon Sword/Shield/Scarlet/Violet
Still in production (as of 2026)
Pokemon Let's Go Eevee/Pikachu Edition Switch (2018); Animal Crossing: New Horizons Edition (2020); Splatoon 2 PAL/JP Edition (2017)
Hardware specs
- Weight
- 320 g (with Joy-Con)
- Dimensions
- 242 × 102 × 13.9 mm
- Cpu
- Quad-core ARM Cortex-A57
- Gpu
- 256 Maxwell (microarchitecture), Maxwell-based CUDA cores, Docked: 768 MHz, 393 GFLOPS, Undocked: 384 MHz, 197 GFLOPS
- Ram
- 4 GB LPDDR4
- Sound
- Undocked: Linear PCM 2.0 stereo speakers (with pseudo-surround), Docked: Linear PCM 5.1
- Os
- Nintendo Switch system software
Hardware revisions
- Original 'Erista' HAC-001(2017)
original launch hardware (Tegra X1)
⚠ Fusée Gelée bootrom exploit means every unit shipped before mid-2018 is permanently softmoddable
- 'Mariko' HAC-001(-01)(2019)
patched Tegra X1 (Mariko), ~2x battery life, no bootrom exploit
- Switch Lite HDH-001(2019)
handheld-only (no detachable Joy-Con, no TV out), Mariko silicon
- Switch OLED HEG-001(2021)
7" OLED screen, wider kickstand, improved dock with wired LAN, larger 64GB storage
Launch colorways & special editions
- Splatoon 3 Edition (2022)
- Pokemon Scarlet/Violet Edition (2022)
- Mario Red Edition (2023)
- Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Edition (2023)
Modding scene
- Difficulty
- hard-mod
- Custom firmware
- Atmosphère (active, open-source); SX OS (defunct commercial CFW)
Reception & legacy
Cautiously optimistic at launch — many were skeptical of the hybrid concept after the Wii U flop, but Breath of the Wild's universal acclaim drove instant success
Plastic 'edge' on White dock can scratch the screen if not careful when docking (early reports prompted dock-edge tape mods)
Saved Nintendo after the Wii U commercial failure; redefined the hybrid console category and pulled Nintendo back into the AAA conversation; lifetime sales surpassed the Wii (~140M+); the pandemic-era Animal Crossing: New Horizons boom became a cultural moment
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