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You Might Want To Put The Brakes On Nintendo's Black Friday Switch + Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Bundle

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in the US, with $20 off the price of a whole bunch of quality games and a Switch console bundle that throws in
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'free' for the price of the standard console. Not a bad deal on the face of it, although after checking the small print (as pointed out by
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), the console included in this deal is in fact the older model with a rather less impressive battery life.

It seems that Nintendo is looking to shift remaining inventory of the HAC-001 version of the console. For anyone who has forgotten, Nintendo quietly put out
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(different from the
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, of course) which filtered into stores throughout the summer. It featured an updated chip which improves power efficiency and increases battery life substantially from 2.5-6.5 hours (depending on the game) to a not-unimpressive 4.5-9 hours. That's quite a jump for a system which is otherwise cosmetically identical.

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