How serious is the aging of Nintendo Switch OLED on March 8th

OLED screens are brilliant, colorful and vibrant-but they won't last forever. Eventually, their organic light-emitting pixels will wear out, and some understandably fear that the OLED-equipped Nintendo Switch, released last October, could eventually age. Good news? According to one test, playing for 3,600 hours on a static screen might even start to see the first signs of terrible screen problems.

YouTuber Wulff Den reports that five months after turning on the Nintendo Switch OLED and plugging in the charger, leaving behind a still photo of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, effectively staring at the sun, he's only now finally seeing some ghosting. And there aren't many of them, as you'll see for yourself in the video embedded above. (Wulff Den was also tested at 1,800 hours and did not see much effect at that time.)

As my colleague Chris Welch told you at launch, aging isn't as worrying about OLED screens as it used to be because the technology has made strides in both OLED sub-pixel lifetime and built-in software protection. At times, these protections are even a bit too aggressive, as I explained in my review of LG's 48-inch C1 OLED TV. But they're there, and even if aging is still there, whatever Nintendo does seems to work.