{"video_id":"t7IS-yKkRQw","title":"I Hate Nintendo and I’m Buying a Switch 2 IMMEDIATELY","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2025-05-04T14:53:29Z","duration_s":725,"segments":[{"start_s":0.08,"end_s":7.68,"text":"Nintendo spends a shocking amount of time and energy antagonizing The Gaming","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.72,"end_s":11.599,"text":"Community and yet I bought a Wii I bought a Wii U I bought a switch I","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":9.639,"end_s":18.439,"text":"bought an OLED switch and I'm going to buy a switch too why because nobody does","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":15.559,"end_s":22.88,"text":"what an intend do I mean who else could tease an upcoming console with the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":20.519,"end_s":28.16,"text":"performance of a generation and a half old competing machine and yet have the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":25.32,"end_s":32.759,"text":"community say 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community scuttlebutt this may be the most leaked Nintendo Hardware ever and on top of the official announcement there is a lot more that we know or at least mostly know that makes us pretty excited about the switch too let's begin the adventure of sorting through it all it's dangerous to go alone take this no way did we get a switch to early of course it's our sponsor dbrand the Mad Lads are doing it they're making a Kill switch case this time for the switch 2 you can sign up to get notified when it drops at dbrand.com switch2 always masters of the rooster teas Nintendo gave us a mere 2minute 22 second tour of their attempt number two at a hybrid console but while at first glance you might think it was pretty light on the details the Keeny have been gleaning a ton of info let's start with the good news given Nintendo's track record of following up their most successful launches with Hyper confusingly named successors simple two on the end of the name feels like a pretty smart move especially given that the vision for the switch 2 seems to be remarkably similar to the original just in a substantially larger package that actually looks a lot like the handheld gaming PCs that seem to have prodded into Nintendo into action here but don't kid yourself the plain black exterior is packed with subtle Nintendo charm and refinements like a better kickstand a new Dock and two USBC ports meaning better ergonomics while charging and better support for multiple accessories without needing a dongle all without sacrificing the headphone ja now that is courage the new joycons also look great the magnetic mounting mechanism looks way less finicky than the previous sliding one and thank goodness they are slightly larger for those of us who aren't literal children but still enjoy Mario Party both joycons appear to have infrared sensors this time and we've seen speculation that this strange hole on the controller rail may actually be for a laser for Mouse functionality for a brief moment the joycons were moving all mousike here which maybe confirms 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 cheese grader for a Min game or something but who knows with Nintendo now exclusive to the right joy-con is the mysterious C button its exclusion from the left joy-con leads us to believe that it controls some kind of function in handheld mode on past Nintendo controllers C often meant camera but it could also be chat or capture or a connect button for wirelessly streaming games to your dock like the Wii U okay that one is speculation on our part and besides the only C that I care about is backwards compatibility that's right baby you get to play your OG switch games both physical and digital on your brand new machine now there will be some exceptions probably the ones with the weird peripheral requirements but even so this is fantastic news because there is a ginormous library of amazing switch games many of which performed like absolute dog on the underpowered original console the only question is how is Nintendo going to roll this out personally I'd probably just settle for more consistent frame rates but I'd also be surprised given recent industry Trends if we didn't also see nextg visual updates but will they be free for Nintendo online subscribers will Nintendo and other devs provide them as paid patches or will Nintendo pull a Nintendo and lock these patches behind a full price remaster forcing us to re by Donkey Kong Country Returns for the fifth time the last of the good news is that this video unintentionally added credibility to some of the leakers who showed off not only the new shape and joycons but also the specs that's right while you should always take leaks with at least one grain of salt we're feeling pretty confident that this list will closely reflect the guts of the switch too let's start with the gml X 30- r- A1 processor really rolls up the tongue don't it the gml x30 is an S so or system on a chip that contains the CPU GPU memory controller and the I/O it's the Beating Heart of the switch 2 and from what we know it appears to be a semic custom 5 nanm variant of the originally 8 nanm NVIDIA Tegra t239 from a couple of years ago and if that's true it is going to be a big upgrade I'm talking eight tiered arm cores instead of just three and a shockingly potent sounding GPU that uses NVIDIA's ampure architecture like the GeForce 3000 Series with 1,536 kudor 12 streaming multiprocessors and maybe even other features such as an optical flow accelerator for frame generation and eth gen en video encoding which could add some weight to our hypothesis about the uh wireless video streaming now as for other big NVIDIA features there is no official confirmation that Nintendo will Implement support for dlss AI accelerated upscaling but you mark my words here guys if the switch 2 doesn't have some form of AI upscaling I will buy and eat an entire box of this Super Mario cereal with Mountain Dew as the milk live on wow it's going to happen rumors also point to the presence of 48 gen 3 tensor cores and two ra tracing ones but I'm not eating anything if I'm wrong on those ones we are a lot more certain though about the RAM it looks like we're going to get 12 gigs of lpddr 5x memory clocked at 7500 megat transfers per second that is a big upgrade from the 4 gigs we had before at up to 1,600 megat transfers per second it comes with 256 gigs of ufs 3.1 flash storage rated at 2100 megabytes per second not sure if that's reads or rights and it looks like it will be expandable using micro SD Express which is fantastic it also has support for HDMI 2.1 although truthfully on a Nintendo console I'm a little less interested in high resolutions and frame rates and I'm a little more interested in support for variable refresh rate which goes a long way towards smoothing out games that are running at sub 60fps and it should also help improve power consumption in handheld mode and I hear what you're thinking guys cool specs bro like your cool well-fitting blank t-shirts on Hilt store.com but what do the specs mean well when digital Foundry did their performance projection based on the t239 what they projected was BAS PS4 graphics performance augmented with modern GPU features and solid rate tracing support and given that that lines up well with claims from Bobby codic former CEO of Activision Blizzard who honestly I wish we didn't have to mention at all we're fairly confident that that's where we're going to land not mind-blowing for a Home console but pretty exciting for a handheld console especially one from Nintendo especially if you look at Nintendo's track record of delivering exceptional visuals on extremely Limited Hardware like I can't wait to see what they can pull off on this thing speaking of games the only game shown was presumably a new Mario Kart with possibly support for 24 players if the starting lines are anything to go by and all I can say about that is it's about Bloody time I mean last time Nintendo released a new numbered Mario Kart Luke still lived in the basement at our Langley house Studio outside of the video we have three other games confirmed for next gen Nintendo platform releases but after that we are deep into speculations Ville the last new 3D Mario game was 8 years ago so we may see one of those the new Pokemon Legends and Xenoblade are due this year so I wouldn't be surprised if they lined up with the console launch Metroid Prime 4 is supposed to come out at some point so switch to for any degree of certainty though we'll need to wait until April but seeing as the switch one had arguably the best launch window in console history and given that Nintendo C clearly hasn't rushed this launch I'm hopeful that Nintendo can deliver another explosive start to the new generation as excited as we all are about the first party titles though only time's going to tell if Nintendo's ecosystem will continue to attract thirdparty developers the switch relied heavily on its enormous install base to incentivize High effort ports and there's no guarantee that especially given that some games are clearly going to be cross-compatible the switch 2 is going to sell in such quantities but on the other hand developers probably won't need to run their games at sub 540p resolutions anymore and Microsoft has made no secret of their Ambitions to grow their software share on other platforms and for that matter we've seen hints from Square Enix that former Sony exclusives like Final Fantasy 7 remake and rebirth could find a new home at Big Red in spite of all this however I doubt the switch 2 will see the same kind of historic success as the original first up it remains to be seen if the performance jump will be big enough to entice the masses second many people bought multiple switches for their households sometimes one for the kids and you know one for the TV and as long as the games are also being released on the original switch and trust me with an install base of over 145 million units that's going to be for a while I'm not sure that those parents are going to feel the need to upgrade consoles number two or number three in the house at least not in the current economy and finally the switch 2 has a lot more competition than the original the original landed in a completely Barren handheld gaming World it proved there was an appetite for dedicated handheld gaming devices but in doing so since its release we have seen a flood of excellent options from other parties like the steam deck from valve and the allyx from Asus both of which can uh run switch games better than the original switch can which as long as the game live lies overlap is kind of what the switch 2 does at the end of the day though as someone who pays for my games I can't wait to get my hands on the switch 2 when it comes out later this year just like I can't wait to tell you about our sponsor 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