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Nintendo’s OLED Switch goes up for preorder today—here’s where to get one

Promotional images for upgraded handheld video game system.

Enlarge / White is the new black with the new Nintendo Switch OLED Model. (credit: Nintendo)

After an initial unveiling last week , Nintendo’s Switch OLED model will be available to preorder through various retailers in the US starting on Thursday. In a tweet, the company said that orders for the new console variant will begin at 12pm PT/3pm ET.

If you’re hoping to grab one, here are the retail listings that are usually up as of this writing. We’ll add more as we see them, but given the particular intense demand for recent gaming hardware like the PlayStation 5 , Xbox Series X , and Nvidia’s RTX graphics cards , we don’t expect stock to be available for long:

The new OLED Switch costs $350 and will ship from October 8. That’s compared to $300 for typically the base Switch model and $200 for the handheld-only Nintendo Switch Lite .

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