{"id":3169,"date":"2021-10-08T15:44:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T13:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/08\/nintendo-switch-oled-review-a-luxury-upgrade-to-a-brilliant-console\/"},"modified":"2021-10-08T15:44:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T13:44:27","slug":"nintendo-switch-oled-review-a-luxury-upgrade-to-a-brilliant-console","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/08\/nintendo-switch-oled-review-a-luxury-upgrade-to-a-brilliant-console\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Switch OLED review \u2013 a luxury upgrade to a brilliant console"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With its larger, brighter display and array of useful updates, this sleek new version of the Switch is expensive but desirable<\/p>\n<p>I will be for ever grateful to the Nintendo Switch for saving my sanity during the two most trying periods of my life: my first year of parenthood, during which I learned to breastfeed lying down so that I could sneak extra hours of Zelda: Breath of the Wild\u2019s Hyrule; and basically all of 2020, during which I was dealing with a pandemic, a six-month-old baby and a three-year-old, and Animal Crossing was the only thing that kept me from losing my entire mind.<\/p>\n<p>After four and a half years, though, the brilliant hybrid on-the-go-and-living-room console is getting long in the tooth. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2019\/sep\/25\/switch-lite-review\">Switch Lite<\/a>, released in September 2019, wasn\u2019t so much an upgrade as a stripped-down redesign: lighter, simpler, made for playing on the bus or in bed. And it lacked the Switch\u2019s two most elegant features: you couldn\u2019t play it on a TV, and you couldn\u2019t snap off a controller to hand to a friend for a pub round of Mario Kart.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2021\/oct\/08\/nintendo-switch-oled-review-a-luxury-upgrade-to-a-brilliant-console\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/55723240c6b4b0eddc28d5bbb7db09efc7ab7811\/1317_654_7143_4286\/master\/7143.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=57b94b215cd9ae548fe6196ec9b018de\" title=\"Nintendo Switch OLED review \u2013 a luxury upgrade to a brilliant console\" \/>With its larger, brighter display and array of useful updates, this sleek new version of the Switch is expensive but desirable<br \/>\nI will be for ever grateful to the Nintendo Switch for saving my sanity during the two most trying periods of my life: my first year of parenthood, during which I learned to breastfeed lying down so that I could sneak extra hours of Zelda: Breath of the Wild\u2019s Hyrule; and basically all of 2020, during which I was dealing with a pandemic, a six-month-old baby and a three-year-old, and Animal Crossing was the only thing that kept me from losing my entire mind.<br \/>\nAfter four and a half years, though, the brilliant hybrid on-the-go-and-living-room console is getting long in the tooth. The Switch Lite, released in September 2019, wasn\u2019t so much an upgrade as a stripped-down redesign: lighter, simpler, made for playing on the bus or in bed. And it lacked the Switch\u2019s two most elegant features: you couldn\u2019t play it on a TV, and you couldn\u2019t snap off a controller to hand to a friend for a pub round of Mario Kart. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With its larger, brighter display and array of useful updates, this sleek new version of the Switch is expensive but desirable I will be for ever grateful to the Nintendo Switch for saving my sanity during the two most trying periods of my life: my first year of parenthood, during which I learned to breastfeed &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/08\/nintendo-switch-oled-review-a-luxury-upgrade-to-a-brilliant-console\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nintendo Switch OLED review \u2013 a luxury upgrade to a brilliant console<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}