Nintendo Switch – OLED Model w/ White Joy-Con $349.99 free s&h @ Amazon $350

It's gotten to the situation where just being in stock is the deal now. Sad times

nvm op says it goes in and out of stock

Wasn't the Wii near impossible to buy for almost 2 years? LOL "sad times" aka the launch of any major video game console since the Dreamcast.

Wii was so affordable.

You could double profits easily

, it is was a scalper's dream.

And this was before botting too

so if you were a college student with lots of time you could drive around stores all day

$199 in 2006 is $275 per 2021 inflation....well above the cost of the Switch Lite, right at the cost of the standard Switch and only $75 less than the OLED. The Wii also did not include a screen nor was the hardware anywhere near as powerful (in comparison to other platforms at the time). The Wii U costed $299 when released, or $363 in modern dollars. I'd consider the $349 OLED Switch "affordable" in comparison. And when the the Wii was launched there was no global chip shortage, supply chain issues, or increased demand due to lockdowns. It suffered the same fate with zero external pressures.

Like people were doing on the Switch OLED just a 6-8 weeks ago? Like the PS5...currently? $1200+ was pretty common PS5 price for a craigslist scalper over Christmas 2021.

As is any item that is hard to find and has an inflated post retail price. You do realize "scalping" is a term that precedes video games and is more prevalent in Sports and Entertainment than it ever will be for handheld consoles?

Botting was really common back then too and companies did not realize it was a problem. Now at least they are doing things trying to prevent / slow how many consoles botters can get by either preorder lotto's, online surprise releases, or sudden and coordinated retail drops among multiple companies. Not a single one of those practices were used prior to the last few years (unless you had an independent retailer do it on their own).

LOL...how is that different than today? Did college students disappear??? A large part of the population is working remotely or decided to become (male or female) homemakers as opposed to going back to work. Lots of spare time there. Also a huge part of the population, boomers, have retired in droves and they grew up playing many of the games that are most popular on the Switch. Most of these consoles are B&M release only with no preorders. The only way to get them is "drive around all day" or pay people to stand in line. Oh, but that is a new practice right? No one ever paid people wait in line for Beatles tickets

Every Target near me as a OLED sitting on the shelf and this very deal proves that the OLED is not an impossible to find unicorn online....please stop pushing your "the world is heading in the wrong direction because a recently released video game console is hard to find" propaganda. Doesn't suit you.

See, people still have tons of time on their hands.

To spread misinformation, luckily there is time in my day to call them out for it and it takes very little effort

Wasn't the Wii near impossible to buy for almost 2 years? LOL "sad times" aka the launch of any major video game console since the Dreamcast.

Wow....