Rumours have it that Nintendo has already begun handing out dev kits of its next-generation console to game key partners and studios, well ahead of a launch that is being planned and scheduled to take place next year. As per Video Game Chronicle’s report, it also seems that the Japanese gaming studio is retaining the portable handheld factor as the current Nintendo Switch, although it remains to be seen if it will indeed be called the Switch 2.
Sources close to the game new portal further suggested that the next-generation Nintendo console may launch with an LCD display instead of OLED, in an effort to bring down costs in that area and perhaps shift it towards providing the console with a bigger internal storage capacity, given the increased storage size and requirements of certain graphically intensive titles. To put it into perspective, the Switch only has an internal storage capacity of 32GB, while consoles such as the PS5 and Xbox Series X and S ship out with much larger capacities.
That said, there are still no details about the internal hardware of the next-generation handheld console, and Nintendo is clutching that information to its chest very tightly. It is likely that the hardware can and will at least support 4K resolution, along with some level of graphical fidelity to complement the higher resolution. That, and run whatever games on it at 60 fps consistently too.
The Nintendo Switch first launched on back in 2017 and took the world of gaming by storm with its portable handheld design. However, unlike its rival consoles at the time, it is powered by the NVIDIA Tegra X1 SoC, which was considered pretty archaic and dated hardware, even at the time. On that note, it has been rumoured that the new console will continue to be powered by a newer, more powerful chipset from the same GPU maker. Hopefully, it’ll support the brand’s own DLSS upscaling technology.
(Source: VGC, Videocardz)
