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Fun-Vanilla-4467 t1_j6ja5lw wrote

Reply to comment by Irishsally in New clueless wannabe gamer by Irishsally

Point of notice OLED is much more important than QLED. I'm fact they're totally different technologies for different things.

Oversimplified version: OLED means it doesn't need back light, giving true blacks and much better picture . The price is the brightness. QLED solves brightness problem but at a deep monetary cost.

Hope this helps gets this things into perspective

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FrozenFrac t1_j6ja3rk wrote

Reply to New clueless wannabe gamer by Irishsally

Switch is just fine. Tons of kids own them and as long as they're not using it like a Frisbee, it's not going to break with regular use. If your kids can take care of an iPad, they can take care of a Switch. Might be an issue if they like playing it like a Game Boy, but they can easily share. Speaking of which, you mentioned might needing a new TV. As long as it has an HDMI connection (and I can't imagine any TV existing from any relatively recent year not having one), any console will connect. But in your eldest's defense, the Switch's cool feature is not needing a TV since you can play it like a Game Boy or prop it up and disconnect the controllers so it's like you have a tiny, personal TV.

Every console you can buy right now allows for multiple user accounts.

There is no "offline version" of a console and every console requires an online subscription to play multiplayer online. There are some exceptions for things like Fortnite I believe, but that's another cost to consider.

Having a disc/discless console is pure preference. As someone who likes collecting games and having the option to sell them, I would never buy a discless console, but lots of people prefer only downloading games, so ask your kids.

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