Nintendo showed off Switch 2 prototypes at Gamescom
By ForGeeks A Nintendo Direct is reportedly scheduled for next week, but there’s no official confirmation yet. The company is expected to unveil several first-person games, including Super Mario RPG, Detective Pikachu Returns and WarioWare: Move It.
We won’t hear about Switch 2, the sequel to the highly successful handheld console. But behind the scenes, work is well underway, with rumors that Nintendo showed off a prototype console to developers attending the recent Gamescom event. They were able to see a redesigned Zelda: Breath of the Wild that utilizes new, more powerful hardware. What that hardware might be is unknown at this time.
It’s not known at this time.
The original Nintendo Switch has several versions, but they all run on Nvidia’s Tegra X1 chip, which was released in 2015. In fact, some of them have the X1+ version from 2019, which has moved from 20nm to 16nm process technology, but the performance is the same (only battery life has improved).
Some of them have the X1+ version, which has moved from 20nm to 16nm, but the performance is the same (only battery life has improved).
This is a legacy chip with four 1.02GHz Cortex-A57 cores and four A53 cores, plus a Maxwell-based GPU (from the GTX 900 generation). It’s also paired with the old LPDDR4 RAM of 4GB. All in all, any modern smartphone chip will outsell it in terms of performance. But has Nintendo settled on an Nvidia chip once again? Or has it found another partner? For now, that remains a mystery.
The Switch 2 is likely to be released in late 2024, with the first official unveiling coming even earlier. For example, Switch was first shown off (codenamed «NX») in March 2015, with a full announcement in October 2016, and the console eventually released in March 2017.
The Switch 2 will be revealed in March 2017.
