Come with me, this news was a treat for handheld players: on July 6, 2021, after months of rumors, Nintendo officially announced the Nintendo Switch – OLED Model. It was the console’s second hardware revision, after the Switch Lite, released in September 2019.
Those expecting a leap in performance were a little sad, because the news was elsewhere. The main one is the 7-inch OLED screen, bigger than the original model’s 6.2 inches, with the same 720p resolution in handheld mode. On TV, the console kept delivering 1080p, as before. The OLED’s colors and contrast were the big draw for those who spend hours with the Switch in their hands.
The rest of the list is cute too:
- 64 GB of internal storage, double the previous model’s 32 GB;
- improved audio from the speakers;
- a wider, adjustable rear stand, for playing with the console standing on a table;
- a new dock, with a LAN port for wired internet, with no need for a USB adapter.
The Joy-Con and the games stayed the same, so the entire Switch library worked normally on the new model. Launch was set for October 8, 2021, with a suggested price of US$ 349 in the United States.
What came next
The Switch OLED reached stores on the promised date, the same day as Metroid Dread. Across all models, the Switch family passed 155 million units shipped as of December 2025, making it Nintendo’s best-selling console ever and the second best-selling of all time, behind only the PlayStation 2. Its successor, the Nintendo Switch 2, launched on June 5, 2025 and is compatible with Switch games.
Source: Nintendo.
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