Some tweaks to the ergonomics - if Nintendo does indeed stick with the Switch’s core design - would also be appreciated with the Switch 2.Īnd we’d like to see a boost in battery life, as the Switch tends to run out of juice in a handful of hours when running games like Breath of the Wild. If the Switch 2 sticks to the same control scheme as the Switch, we’d like to see it improve the Joy-Cons so they suffer less from potential stick drifting and have analog triggers for more precise control in the likes of racing games. There’s precious little in the way of hints about Nintendo Switch 2's features, but we can apply some educated guesswork. Our fears have been further increased by a recent rumor suggesting the Switch 2 will launch with an LCD display in order to keep production costs down. And a new rumor from tipster NateTheHate further adds fuel to the rumor that the Nintendo Switch 2 could have an LCD display. But we're a little concerned the Switch 2 might not use OLED panels as standard. There's a chance Sharp could be referring to another as-yet-unannounced console. If that is the case then it could be disappointing as the Switch 2 may come with more dated screen tech than the Switch OLED. However, Sharp, which makes the current Switch displays, has said it's working on a new LCD panel for a "new gaming console" - that could be the Switch 2. There are no rumors to support this, but we’ve got our fingers crossed. But hopefully, a boost in refresh rates would be good, say taking the 60Hz display and boosting it to 120Hz as seen in the best phones. On the display side, we can see the Switch 2 going for an OLED panel, much like that of the Switch OLED. Onboard storage has been tipped at 512GB, which would be a significant upgrade over the 32GB and 64GB of the original Switch and Switch OLED respectively. Such a feature would be neat, but rumors around it have fallen quiet. This extra chip would be used to boost the console's power and video output when docked and connected to a 4K TV. There were murmurs of a potential co-processor chip to live in the dock of a Switch 2 or the once-rumored Nintendo Switch Pro. But we’d like to hope that Nintendo taps into enough CPU and GPU power to deliver a next-gen gaming experience. It would be difficult to guess at potential power or clock speeds. In fact, after a chaotic rumor tipping a Tegra chip based on Samsubg's 5-nanometer process node, which was then refuted by the tipster it originated from, we feel that the Nintendo Switch 2 will definitely have some form of Nvidia chip at its heart. But we’d still err on the side of Nvidia. We’d not be surprised if Nintendo got a custom chipset from Nvidia as well, given the success and scope of the Switch.īut advancements by AMD, as seen with the Valve Stream Deck, could put Team Red with an outside chance of providing the silicon for a next-generation Switch. We can expect Nintendo to stick with a system-on-a-chip from Nvidia, likely some next-generation take on the aged Tegra X1 chip found in the current Switch. (Image credit: Katarzyna Penar at Lightframes) That's $50 more than the Switch OLED, but would also make sense at a time when the cost of hardware tends to be trending upward. However, a recent leak from a tipster with a fluctuating reputation for accurate information has claimed the Nintendo Switch 2 wll cost $399. So we would hazard a guess and say a next-gen Switch would sit around that price point, especially if it does indeed make use of an OLED display. However, a new analyst report has gone against the grain and indicated that a release in March or April 2024 could be on the cards as this would help Nintendo counter the current sales momentum of the PS5.Īs for price, the Nintendo Switch OLED comes in at $349 / £309 / AU$539. The majority of reports suggest that a launch in 2024 is being targeted, but sources with "knowledge of Nintendo's next-gen console plans" (via VGC) suggest Nintendo is planning for a release date in the second half of next year. We take that to be referring to the Nintendo Switch 2. The same publication then reported that sources from a CMOS sensor provider, which has Nintendo as a customer, noted that a new "Japanese game console" is due to launch in early 2024. This means we should not expect the Switch 2 until sometime after March 2024.Ī release in the first quarter of 2024 was given some weight by a report from Chinese investment site MoneyDJ, which when outlining the production outlook at Hongzhun, a metal cases manufacturer and subsidiary of Hon Hai Technology Group, expects the company to benefit from the launch of the Switch 2, presumably by manufacturing parts of the console. While we had originally hoped Nintendo's latest hardware could arrive in 2023, during the company's annual financial report president Shuntaro Furukawa confirmed there are no plans to release any hardware during the next fiscal year.
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