Deal Ends Soon: Get New Nintendo Switch For $75 With Trade-In Offer At GameStop

well i ended up trading it on Monday and honestly i can tell the difference in the stronger battery there's a video on you tube that i found that was 20 minutes long where it shows that there are more things on it than just a stronger battery. they could have given us more MB though before i even put any of my games on it i saw i had only 25 GB what the **** ya know? i thought it has 32?

Hello. Friendly Neighborhood Gamestop employee here. I was made aware of this article by four customers who were expecting to pay $75 on a Switch upgrade today, and I would like to point out a few discrepancies, and request that they be fixed so that I don't have to waste time explaining the actual situation.

The $200 trade value is for the new model Switch, not the old one. The old is still $175 (as it has been for about the past year), so with the trade bump, it is only $200, not $225.

Another thing, although it's not technically a discrepancy, is the fact that tax was not mentioned. Normally it wouldn't be an issue, but considering there is approximately a $20 difference in tax between a $100 item and a $300 item, I feel it's worth mentioning, because people don't realize that, despite only paying $100 out of pocket, they are still buying a $300 item.

In reality, the customer is not paying $75, but closer to $125 (depending on local sales tax). That is a $50 discrepancy, and so I once again request that it be amended as soon as possible.

Thank you.

Just a heads up guys I went in today and found out that Gamestop reduced the trade-in value on the switch by............................ you guessed it $25 so it's $100 to upgrade. wasn't a deal breaker for me but I definitely wasn't happy about it either.

Can’t speak for others, but I did indeed trade in my Switch for the upgraded one *and* they did the in-store transfer.

So basically 75 bucks for 2-2.5 more hours of playtime. What a deal (not)

A steal :) 75 bucks LOL

Instead, if you are on a long journey and have time to spend playing for 9 hours straight; then you can either buy an airplane AC adapter or a power bank; which last twice as much as the internal Switch battery. Neither cost more than 75 bucks, and you save the hassle to deal with gamestop and transfer your data.

4-9 hours? Battery life still isn't that great, tbh.

I’m cool. I will stick with my current Switch till the Pro version arrives. I play my PS4 more than my Switch and it is usually docked. The extra battery life is irrelevant to me I just want those blue and red joy cons

so if i understand this right and i hope i do, if i take my switch in to game stop i can trade it in for one with a longer battery ?

Let’s be honest here...

Power efficiency was just one problem from the original switch and it’s great that they fixed that!

One of the biggest problems is that the hardware has always been over priced and this doesn’t change that, in fact it doubles down on the price. The main console should be at most $249 and the lite version at most $149 in my opinion.

Of course the second biggest issue is the fact that 2 and 3 years old games are still selling for $50 to $60 on average and that’s ridiculous! Just about every other game maker drops the price of their game after about a year (I know of only a few exceptions to this) and yet, it seems, that Nintendo could care less if people play their titles, because $300 for the console with no discounted games to help ease the pain on your wallet is a stupid position.

Anyway, these are the two biggest reasons why I won’t own one of these until Nintendo wakes the hell up! Charging the same price because you fixed a problem with the original, doesn’t add value to an already over priced console.

$75 with trade in sounds very appealing, I might just get it now, Plus with the $50 off coupon, you can basically just get it for $25

Man, Nintendo's really dead-set on undoing that hard exploit in the original Switch models.

different battery, same crappy hardware. it's not even like the average person goes on plane rides even....it's wake up, get ready for work, go to work, come home, sit in front of the big screen TV, go to bed. ain't nobody got time for mobile gaming unless you're a kid.

I totally would have done this for the Switch-Lite, but they dropped the TV-connection...
My 'only' real problem with the switch is that on the RARE occasion I want to take it somewhere it's too big.
Otherwise I play it on my TV, you know, where it belongs.

"upgrading it from roughly 2.5-6.5 hours of playtime to 4.5-9 hours of charge"

Playtime vs charge time? Is this a mistype? I'm assuming upgrading from 2.5-6.5 hours of playtime, to 4.5-9 hours of playtime? If so, that is definitely worth the $75.

I have a question, how do you identify an older model from the new one? Only by the box design or is there something else.

Yeah so there's a problem. All 4 of the gamestop's in my area confirmed that you cannot do the account transfer which requires you to have your old switch and your new one. Because and I quote "we need to factory reset your old switch for the trade in process. Otherwise the trade in process cannot take place."