WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.200 Nintendo spends a shocking amount of time and energy antagonizing the gaming community. 00:00:05.200 --> 00:00:11.120 And yet, I bought a Wii, I bought a Wii U, I bought a Switch, I bought an OLED Switch, 00:00:11.120 --> 00:00:14.240 and I'm gonna buy a Switch too. Why? 00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:22.320 Because nobody does what Nintendo. I mean, who else could tease an upcoming console with the performance of a generation 00:00:22.320 --> 00:00:26.520 and a half old competing machine, and yet have the community say, 00:00:26.520 --> 00:00:30.960 sounds great, because the games for it are going to rock. 00:00:30.960 --> 00:00:36.600 Speaking of community scuttle butt, this may be the most leaked Nintendo hardware ever, 00:00:36.600 --> 00:00:41.680 and on top of the official announcement, there is a lot more that we know, or at least 00:00:41.680 --> 00:00:45.640 mostly know, that makes us pretty excited about the Switch too. 00:00:45.640 --> 00:00:50.680 Let's begin the adventure of sorting through it all. It's dangerous to go alone, take this. 00:00:50.680 --> 00:00:53.720 No way. Did we get a Switch too early? 00:00:53.720 --> 00:01:07.760 Of course. Here's our sponsor. 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:13.000 Always masters of the roostertees, Nintendo gave us a mere 2 minute 22 second tour of 00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:20.360 their attempt number two at a hybrid console. But while at first glance, you might think it was pretty light on the details, the keen 00:01:20.360 --> 00:01:25.240 eyed have been gleaning a ton of info. Let's start with the good news. 00:01:25.280 --> 00:01:29.120 In Nintendo's track record of following up their most successful launches with hyper 00:01:29.120 --> 00:01:34.120 confusingly named successors, a simple two on the end of the name feels like a pretty 00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:39.160 smart move, especially given that the vision for the Switch too seems to be remarkably similar 00:01:39.160 --> 00:01:45.920 to the original, just in a substantially larger package that actually looks a lot like the 00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:50.440 handheld gaming PCs that seem to have prodded Nintendo into action here. 00:01:50.440 --> 00:01:56.880 But don't kid yourself, the plain black exterior is packed with subtle Nintendo charm and refinements, 00:01:56.880 --> 00:02:02.480 like a better kickstand, a new dock and two USB-C ports, meaning better ergonomics while 00:02:02.480 --> 00:02:08.240 charging and better support for multiple accessories without needing a dongle. 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:13.200 All without sacrificing the headphone jack. Now that is courage. 00:02:13.200 --> 00:02:17.960 The new Joy-Cons also look great, the magnetic mounting mechanism looks way less finicky 00:02:18.040 --> 00:02:22.840 than the previous sliding one, and thank goodness they're slightly larger for those 00:02:22.840 --> 00:02:27.080 of us who aren't literal children, but still enjoy Mario Party. 00:02:27.080 --> 00:02:31.320 Both Joy-Cons appear to have infrared sensors this time, and we've seen speculation that 00:02:31.320 --> 00:02:38.360 this strange hole on the controller rail may actually be for a laser, for mouse functionality? 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:44.360 For a brief moment, the Joy-Cons were moving all mouse-like here, which maybe confirms 00:02:44.360 --> 00:02:50.960 the leaks from a few weeks ago. I don't know, personally, I think it's more likely that it'll slot into like a cardboard 00:02:50.960 --> 00:02:55.120 cheese grater for a minigame or something, but who knows with Nintendo. 00:02:55.120 --> 00:02:59.800 Now exclusive to the right Joy-Con is the mysterious C button. 00:02:59.800 --> 00:03:03.800 Its exclusion from the left Joy-Con leads us to believe that it controls some kind of 00:03:03.800 --> 00:03:12.120 function in handheld mode. On past Nintendo controllers, C often meant camera, but it could also be chat, or capture, 00:03:12.520 --> 00:03:17.480 or connect button for wirelessly streaming games to your dock, like the Wii U. 00:03:17.480 --> 00:03:22.040 Okay, that one is speculation on our part, and besides, the only C that I care about 00:03:22.040 --> 00:03:26.200 is backwards compatibility. That's right, baby! 00:03:26.200 --> 00:03:32.680 You get to play your OG Switch games, both physical and digital, on your brand new machine. 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:37.400 Now there will be some exceptions, probably the ones with the weird peripheral requirements, 00:03:37.400 --> 00:03:43.800 but even so, this is fantastic news because there is a ginormous library of amazing Switch games, 00:03:43.800 --> 00:03:49.400 many of which performed like absolute dog s*** on the underpowered original console. 00:03:49.400 --> 00:03:52.920 The only question is, how is Nintendo going to roll this out? 00:03:53.560 --> 00:03:57.560 Personally, I'd probably just settle for more consistent framerates. 00:03:57.560 --> 00:04:03.000 But I'd also be surprised, given recent industry trends, if we didn't also see 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:08.360 next-gen visual updates. But will they be free for Nintendo online subscribers? 00:04:08.360 --> 00:04:11.640 Will Nintendo and other devs provide them as paid patches? 00:04:11.640 --> 00:04:17.960 Or will Nintendo pull a Nintendo and lock these patches behind a full-price remaster, 00:04:17.960 --> 00:04:21.880 forcing us to rebuy Donkey Kong Country Returns for the fifth time? 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:27.320 The last of the good news is that this video unintentionally added credibility 00:04:27.320 --> 00:04:32.200 to some of the leakers who showed off not only the new shape in Joy-Cons, but also the specs. 00:04:32.760 --> 00:04:37.240 That's right, while you should always take leaks with at least one grain of salt, 00:04:37.240 --> 00:04:43.400 we're feeling pretty confident that this list will closely reflect the guts of the Switch 2. 00:04:43.400 --> 00:04:47.400 Let's start with the GMLX30-R-A1 processor. 00:04:49.960 --> 00:04:57.000 The GMLX30 is an SOC, or system-on-a-chip, that contains the CPU, GPU, memory controller, and the IO. 00:04:57.000 --> 00:05:07.400 It's the beating heart of the Switch 2, and from what we know, it appears to be a semi-custom 5-nanometer variant of the originally 8-nanometer NVIDIA Tegra T239 00:05:07.400 --> 00:05:12.680 from a couple of years ago. And if that's true, it is going to be a big upgrade. 00:05:12.680 --> 00:05:19.720 I'm talking 8 tiered ARM cores instead of just 3, and a shockingly potent-sounding GPU 00:05:19.720 --> 00:05:27.080 that uses NVIDIA's ampere architecture, like the GeForce 3000 series, with 1,536 CUDA cores, 00:05:27.080 --> 00:05:32.120 12 streaming multiprocessors, and maybe even other features, such as an optical flow accelerator 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:37.960 for frame generation, and 8th gen NVENC video encoding. Which could add some weight to our 00:05:37.960 --> 00:05:44.040 hypothesis about the wireless video streaming. Now, as for other big NVIDIA features, there is no 00:05:44.040 --> 00:05:49.800 official confirmation that Nintendo will implement support for DLSS AI-accelerated upscaling. But 00:05:50.840 --> 00:05:55.640 you bark my words here, guys. If the Switch 2 doesn't have some form of AI upscaling, 00:05:55.640 --> 00:06:01.960 I will buy and eat an entire box of this Super Mario serial with Mountain Dew as the milk live 00:06:01.960 --> 00:06:07.800 on WAN Show. It's going to happen. Rumors also point to the presence of 48 Gen 3 tensor cores 00:06:07.800 --> 00:06:11.560 and 2 ray tracing ones, but I'm not eating anything if I'm wrong on those ones. 00:06:12.120 --> 00:06:16.200 We were a lot more certain, though, about the RAM. It looks like we're going to get 12 gigs of 00:06:16.200 --> 00:06:22.200 LPDDR5X memory clocked at 7500 megatransfer per second. That is a big upgrade from the 4 gigs 00:06:22.200 --> 00:06:29.640 we had before at up to 1600 megatransfer per second. It comes with 256 gigs of UFS 3.1 flash 00:06:29.640 --> 00:06:36.120 storage rated at 2100 megabytes per second. Not sure if that's reads or writes. And it looks 00:06:36.120 --> 00:06:42.920 like it will be expandable using MicroSD Express, which is fantastic. It also has support for HDMI 00:06:42.920 --> 00:06:49.080 2.1. Although, truthfully, on Nintendo console, I'm a little less interested in high resolutions 00:06:49.080 --> 00:06:54.440 and framerates, and I'm a little more interested in support for variable refresh rate, which goes 00:06:54.440 --> 00:07:00.680 a long way towards smoothing out games that are running at sub 60 FPS. And it should also help 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:06.040 improve power consumption in handheld mode. And I hear what you're thinking, guys. Cool specs, bro, 00:07:06.040 --> 00:07:11.320 like your cool, well-fitting, blank t-shirts on Hiltodstore.com. But what do the specs mean? 00:07:12.120 --> 00:07:16.760 Well, when Digital Foundry did their performance projection based on the T239, 00:07:16.760 --> 00:07:22.600 what they projected was base PS4 graphics performance augmented with modern GPU features 00:07:22.600 --> 00:07:28.120 and solid ray tracing support. And given that that lines up well with claims from Bobby Coddick, 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:32.360 former CEO of Activision Blizzard, who honestly, I wish we didn't have to mention it all, 00:07:32.360 --> 00:07:37.640 we're fairly confident that that's where we're going to land. Not mind blowing for our home console, 00:07:37.640 --> 00:07:43.480 but pretty exciting for a handheld console, especially one from Nintendo. Especially if you 00:07:43.560 --> 00:07:48.920 look at Nintendo's track record of delivering exceptional visuals on extremely limited hardware. 00:07:48.920 --> 00:07:55.000 Like, I can't wait to see what they can pull off on this thing. Speaking of games, the only game 00:07:55.000 --> 00:08:02.280 shown was presumably a new Mario Kart with possibly support for 24 players, if the starting 00:08:02.280 --> 00:08:08.280 lines are anything to go by. And all I can say about that is, it's about bloody time. I mean, 00:08:08.280 --> 00:08:13.640 last time Nintendo released a new numbered Mario Kart, Luke still lived in the basement 00:08:13.640 --> 00:08:19.000 at our Langley House studio. Outside of the video, we have three other games confirmed for 00:08:19.000 --> 00:08:24.760 next-gen Nintendo platform releases, but after that, we are deep into Speculationsville. The last 00:08:24.760 --> 00:08:29.080 new 3D Mario game was eight years ago, so we may see one of those. The new Pokemon Legends and 00:08:29.080 --> 00:08:33.480 Xenoblade are due this year, so I wouldn't be surprised if they lined up with console launch. 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:39.960 Metroid Prime 4 is supposed to come out at some point, so switch two. For any degree of certainty, 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:45.000 though, we'll need to wait until April. But seeing as the Switch One had arguably the best launch 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:50.680 window in console history, and given that Nintendo clearly hasn't rushed this launch, 00:08:51.480 --> 00:08:55.560 I'm hopeful that Nintendo can deliver another explosive start to the new generation. 00:08:56.200 --> 00:09:00.120 As excited as we all are about the first-party titles, though, only time's going to tell if 00:09:00.120 --> 00:09:06.280 Nintendo's ecosystem will continue to attract third-party developers. The Switch relied heavily 00:09:06.280 --> 00:09:11.880 on its enormous install base to incentivize high-effort ports, and there's no guarantee that, 00:09:11.880 --> 00:09:16.920 especially given that some games are clearly going to be cross-compatible, the Switch Two is going 00:09:16.920 --> 00:09:21.480 to sell in such quantities. But on the other hand, developers probably won't need to run 00:09:21.480 --> 00:09:27.480 their games at sub-540p resolutions anymore, and Microsoft has made no secret of their 00:09:27.480 --> 00:09:32.360 ambitions to grow their software share on other platforms. And for that matter, we've seen hints 00:09:32.360 --> 00:09:38.680 from Square Enix that former Sony exclusives like Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Rebirth could find a new 00:09:38.680 --> 00:09:44.520 home at Big Red. In spite of all this, however, I doubt the Switch Two will see the same kind of 00:09:44.520 --> 00:09:49.480 historic success as the original. First up, it remains to be seen if the performance jump will 00:09:49.480 --> 00:09:55.480 be big enough to entice the masses. Second, many people bought multiple switches for their households, 00:09:55.480 --> 00:10:01.160 sometimes one for the kids and one for the TV. And as long as the games are also being released 00:10:01.160 --> 00:10:05.800 on the original Switch, and trust me, with an install base of over 145 million units, 00:10:06.440 --> 00:10:10.760 that's going to be for a while. I'm not sure that those parents are going to feel the need to 00:10:10.760 --> 00:10:15.800 upgrade consoles number two or number three in the house, at least not in the current economy. 00:10:16.440 --> 00:10:21.800 And finally, the Switch Two has a lot more competition than the original. The original 00:10:21.800 --> 00:10:27.400 landed in a completely barren handheld gaming world. It proved there was an appetite for 00:10:27.400 --> 00:10:34.440 dedicated handheld gaming devices, but in doing so, since its release, we have seen a flood 00:10:34.440 --> 00:10:40.600 of excellent options from other parties like the Steam Deck from Valve and the Ally X from ASUS, 00:10:40.600 --> 00:10:48.120 both of which can run Switch games better than the original Switch can, which as long as the game 00:10:48.120 --> 00:10:53.000 libraries overlap is kind of what the Switch Two does. At the end of the day, though, as someone 00:10:53.000 --> 00:10:57.560 who pays for my games, I can't wait to get my hands on the Switch Two when it comes out later 00:10:57.560 --> 00:11:02.280 this year, just like I can't wait to tell you about our sponsor. If you like Nintendo consoles, 00:11:02.280 --> 00:11:07.320 you should check out our gaming console tier list. We have no we don't have that many controversial 00:11:07.320 --> 00:11:11.160 takes, David. I think they're good takes.