73: The Nintendo Switch OLED deep dive

Noise Cancelling

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This week’s show is presented by Gareth Beavis, Editor in Chief of TechRadar and Sherri L Smith, Editor in Chief of Laptop Mag!

This week our guests are Samuel Roberts, Senior Entertainment Editor at TechRadar, and Adam Vjestica, Senior Gaming Writer at TechRadar, who join us (remotely, of course) to talk about the last seven days in tech.

Show Headlines

00:00 Start

00:52 Big Question - Is Black Widow worth watching at home?

08:49 Gadget Hall of Fame - Magic 8 Ball

11:25 Gadget Hall of Fame - iPod Nano 4th Generation

13:13 Nintendo saved video game consoles

16:05 Sherri’s first Nintendo consoles

18:03 Did Nintendo peak with the N64?

21:53 Wii Fit was Genius

22:31 Nintendo can’t compete with Playstation

23:07 Bargaining with parents for the N64

27:01 Switch OLED first impressions

28:24 Adam’s Switch dev kit

30:24 Who is the Switch OLED for?

32:58 Will the Switch OLED replace the normal Switch?

34:57 Will we ever see a 4k Switch

39:50 Beavle Trends

48:03 Sign off

Last week saw the announcement of the new Nintendo Switch OLED model and so this week we are doing a huge Nintendo deep dive. What were our first Ninendo consoles? Did Nintendo peak with the N64? And who is the Switch OLED really for?

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Don’t forget to head over to TechRadar.com, LaptopMag.com and Tomsguide.com to read more.

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