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Nintendo Switch Console w/ Neon Blue/Red Joycons (Standard Display)

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$350

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Woot has select Nintendo Switch Consoles w/ Joy-Cons starting from $269.99. Shipping is free w/ Amazon Prime or is otherwise a flat $6 per order.

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  • About this Offer:
    • Nintendo Switch Console (Standard Display) is $30 lower (10% savings) than the list price.
    • Offer ends August 3 at midnight CT or while supplies last.
  • About this Product:
    • Nintendo Switch Console (OLED Display) is rated 4.9 out of 5 stars based on over 17,000 ratings at Amazon.
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Woot has select Nintendo Switch Consoles w/ Joy-Cons starting from $269.99. Shipping is free w/ Amazon Prime or is otherwise a flat $6 per order.

Thanks to community member Dmytro_B for finding this deal.

Note: Limit 1 per customer. If you're a Prime member and you don't see free shipping on the order page, look for a "Use this address" button and tap/click that. The order page will finish loading and shipping will update.

Available Console(s):

Editor's Notes

Written by Discombobulated | Staff
  • About this Offer:
    • Nintendo Switch Console (Standard Display) is $30 lower (10% savings) than the list price.
    • Offer ends August 3 at midnight CT or while supplies last.
  • About this Product:
    • Nintendo Switch Console (OLED Display) is rated 4.9 out of 5 stars based on over 17,000 ratings at Amazon.
  • About this Store:
  • Refer to the forum thread for additional deal discussion.
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Aug 2, 2022 2:27 PM
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JohnDubya
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Aug 2, 2022 2:27 PM
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Is this likely the best price of the year? Or does anyone have a lead on a Black Friday price? Seems like it didn't go on many sales last BF, IIRC.
Aug 2, 2022 2:34 PM
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unl67volvoAug 2, 2022 2:34 PM
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Planning on getting my 7 y/o a Switch for Christmas. Should I buy this now, or do you think it's safe, or perhaps even more wise, to wait until Black Friday?
Aug 2, 2022 2:42 PM
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JasonB7619Aug 2, 2022 2:42 PM
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Quote from unl67volvo :
Should I buy this now, or do you think it's safe, or perhaps even more wise, to wait until Black Friday?
Even if something is cheaper later, it is not really cheaper... You have the product for less time due to the waiting. I would rather pay ?% more now and have the product in my hands for the next few months than wait for a possible sale (that may not come) and not have the product at all until then.

If you pay $300 in 6 months and keep the console for 18 months = $16.6 per month of ownership
If you pay $325 now and keep it for 24 months (same end of life) = $13.54 per month of ownership.

Everyone needs to stop worrying about the absolute cheapest in the future and worry more about overall ownership costs..
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breakthegroundAug 2, 2022 2:45 PM
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Does anyone know if Best Buy PMs Woot? Literally just got my switch yesterday for 350.
Aug 2, 2022 2:52 PM
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nilkAug 2, 2022 2:52 PM
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Quote from beermanair :
OLED is good but only if you have all of them screens infront of you to compare. Otherwise you will get use to it and then intial impression will fades away.
You're not wrong, but my Switch V1 LCD always looked bad to me, even without another screen to look at. But I'm properly spoiled by using a plasma TV for console gaming for the last decade (and CRT before that). Maybe if you only have edge-lit LCD displays, having a Switch OLED won't spoil you this way, but I've heard some people say it did and lead them to buy an OLED TV.

If I do pull the trigger on the Steam Deck, I'm hoping I don't feel the same about Steam Deck's LCD. At least it is larger than Switch V1 LCD (similar size to Switch OLED's display). My Dell S2721DGF I use for PC gaming looks ok to me, but what it lacks in colors/contrast, it makes up for in resolution and motion clarity with the high frame rates on PC. Steam Deck is a 720p device and a lot of games play at 30fps on it, so won't have that advantage.

Regardless I have no regrets buying a Switch OLED, and I do recommend it for people who play Switch handheld. I dock it to my 1080p plasma TV and play it handheld, and I enjoy both now equally. If I get a Steam Deck, it won't be a replacement / alternative to Switch OLED. Just a way to play a subset of my PC games handheld without the latency of streaming.
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WooHoo2You
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Aug 2, 2022 3:09 PM
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Quote from isekii :
when is the new model suppose to come out ?
Christmas of 2017
Sometime in 2018
Sometime in 2019
Sometime in 2020
Sometime in 2021
Sometime in 2022
Sometime in 2023
Sometime in 2024

"Soon" according to the "don't buy now" people.
Aug 2, 2022 3:10 PM
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b00gersugarAug 2, 2022 3:10 PM
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Quote from Golgothan :
This pretty much doesn't go on sale for any cheaper, does it? At least according to the search results on SD?
nope. i was hunting for these for a year now, and haven't seen many sales. this is the second time it's been on sale that i've seen, but the last time the discount was like $15. typically the only way to get it cheaper is to use general coupons, credit card promotions, etc. i used the recent amex/amazon promo to buy bestbuy gift cards at 40% off and used those gift cards to buy a switch and other junk. this way my OLED switch came out to about $228 after tax.

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Aug 2, 2022 3:11 PM
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thelonemoonAug 2, 2022 3:11 PM
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Quote from pigboy :
Is it worth extra $55 for OLED?
Yes, the screen is much brighter and also bigger.
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Quote from beermanair :
OLED is good but only if you have all of them screens infront of you to compare. Otherwise you will get use to it and then intial impression will fades away.
Could not disagree more, plus the sound on the OLED is so much better.

Any dark games or playing in well lit / sunny areas are night and day with LED vs OLED. Plus the screen sizes makes a big different even if on paper it is minor. The new OLED Switch does seem lower quality construction overall and the joycons even have a bit of back and forth movement when attached.
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BlueDesk535
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Aug 2, 2022 3:48 PM
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Quote from WooHoo2You :
Actually new orders are slated to ship Oct to Dec of 22. My availability date was Aug to Sept of 22 and I received in July. Value has doubled the number of units shipping per week recently and had another update last week the supply chain issues (for them at least) are no longer holding up production.

BTW, I have not touched my Switch in over a month. The Steam Deck is so far past what they promised it to be (even with non-Steam games).

This is a 'Switch killer' for anyone who can live without the few Nintendo exclusives, especially with all the free AAA PC games given out weekly.
Switch killer? Sure this thing is really going to take off shake head

Why would you even buy a Steam Deck unless you care about a handheld? You can play a bigger library of games on PC, and many of these are available on Xbox/PS if you don't want to bother with building a gaming PC and those games aren't available or perform bad on Switch.

And of course when it comes to handhelds, Nintendo has been the king since the late '80s; try to compete with that. The Deck appeals to a very niche audience of gamers who want to play a wider variety of games portably, and will never be a legitimate threat to the Switch. Emulation does not make it much more appealing either: most people wouldn't bother with emulation or don't even know what it is to begin with.

This talk comes from people that don't care much for Nintendo games and may have bought a Switch because everyone else was. I mean, sure, if you don't care about 1st party Nintendo games, why buy a Switch at all? That's like me saying for example that since I don't care for Xbox games myself, Xbox is going to die now that the Switch can play Doom Eternal, or it will die if the Switch gets GamePass streaming.
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JasonB7619Aug 2, 2022 4:01 PM
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Quote from BlueDesk535 :
Switch killer? Sure this thing is really going to take off shake head
The Steam Deck is not a "killer" of anything, it is an option.
I have 2 gaming PCs, a Switch, Laptop, iPad, and Android Tablets.
I will still be getting a Steam Deck in the next few weeks.
It will be an option for me to play some games away from my desk that I generally could not before while also having the option (I keep saying that a lot) of playing Switch games as well as emulating every console that came before it.
My PC could do most of that but it is not portable at all :/

Options are good, I can't understand why people get so down on something that someone else may or may not want to use.
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RockyGWAug 2, 2022 4:04 PM
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Quote from WooHoo2You :
Actually new orders are slated to ship Oct to Dec of 22. My availability date was Aug to Sept of 22 and I received in July. Value has doubled the number of units shipping per week recently and had another update last week the supply chain issues (for them at least) are no longer holding up production.

BTW, I have not touched my Switch in over a month. The Steam Deck is so far past what they promised it to be (even with non-Steam games).

This is a 'Switch killer' for anyone who can live without the few Nintendo exclusives, especially with all the free AAA PC games given out weekly.
I agree with this statement completely. I just received my monthly report for switch usage and I apparently didn't log any time last month on my OLED which I am probably going to hand down to my wife and my kid really wants the Splatoon 3 OLED coming out soon... Trying to offload a few switches (except my v1). The only thing that really stinks with the SteamDeck is the battery life is pretty bad even with the battery saving tweaks but I do always have a PD battery bank around that delivers enough juice to charge while playing.

The switch is great for playing multiplayer exclusives on the go or with others docked but as some have already said, the Steam Deck is great for pretty much everything else.... even single player exclusives. I definitely don't miss following Dekudeals for any game (digital or physical) price drops for games I have been interested in. The prices for steam games on the "grey" sites are better a majority of the time and a great deal can always be found.
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Quote from BlueDesk535 :
Switch killer? Sure this thing is really going to take off
Like I said, for anyone who has both and does not care about playing a 15 year old Mario game for the 10th time on a 4th console. I didn't mean, nor suggest that it would compete with the Switch in terms of sales or market share.
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Why would you even buy a Steam Deck unless you care about a handheld?
Why would anyone buy a Switch if you were going to play docked? Same exact reason.

I mean, if you really have to play Mario 64, yet again, I guess I understand why you'd want to do it on a 70' flat screen Wink

And modern ports look horrible docked (compared to any other platform that is), and run terrible FPS on the Switch.

Plus, the Steam Deck is slightly more portable than a PC and monitor. You can 'dock' the Steam Deck with any monitor and keyboard. So exactly the same as a Switch. Portable and dockable. LOL...
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You can play a bigger library of games on PC, and many of these are available on Xbox/PS if you don't want to bother with building a gaming PC and those games aren't available or perform bad on Switch.
No one is talking about 'building PC' nor comparing either to a Xbox or PS.
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And of course when it comes to handhelds, Nintendo has been the king since the late '80s; try to compete with that. The Deck appeals to a very niche audience of gamers who want to play a wider variety of games portably, and will never be a legitimate threat to the Switch.
Again, I am talking about function, not market share. PC gamers are "niche" group...LOL..okay.
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Emulation does not make it much more appealing either: most people wouldn't bother with emulation or don't even know what it is to begin with.
I hadn't mentioned emulation but that is a big draw to some, not "niche" either. Rarely legal though.
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This talk comes from people that don't care much for Nintendo games and may have bought a Switch because everyone else was. I mean, sure, if you don't care about 1st party Nintendo games, why buy a Switch at all?
It was the only portable game system in the last decade that did not suck. The DS series of handhelds were okay but everything was so kid oriented. Sony's handheld's lacked any decent games. You don't have to be obsessed with Mario to like Doom, Dying Light, etc on the go or when sitting on the sofa while your wife watches her home buying shows.
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That's like me saying for example that since I don't care for Xbox games myself, Xbox is going to die now that the Switch can play Doom Eternal, or it will die if the Switch gets GamePass streaming.
Again, you are reading between lines that aren't there.

What I said was "This is a 'Switch killer' for anyone who can live without the few Nintendo exclusives, especially with all the free AAA PC games given out weekly."

Clearly I was speaking about a person who owned or considered purchasing one or both of the systems. Not suggesting Nintendo was going to file Chapter 11 because Valve released 3 SKU's....
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wolve3Aug 2, 2022 4:26 PM
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Why are people talking about Steam Deck so much this thread? Comparing Switch to Steam Deck is 100% apples to oranges.

As others have mentioned, if you want to play Nintendo exclusive / 1st party games then get the Switch. Otherwise move on and stop cluttering this thread with platform / console war BS.
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samuraiX20Aug 2, 2022 4:29 PM
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Quote from johnulcer :
The Switch OLED's were selling for like $500+ during COVID and were impossible to find in retail stores. Not sure what you're talking about but this is as low as I've seen them.

They literally didn't even exist in 2005. Your comment is a real head-scratcher.
That's because he's a troll or is high af (and I want some of whatever he had)

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