Nintendo spends a shocking amount of time and energy antagonizing The Gaming
Community and yet I bought a Wii I bought a Wii U I bought a switch I
bought an OLED switch and I'm going to buy a switch too why because nobody does
what an intend do I mean who else could tease an upcoming console with the
performance of a generation and a half old competing machine and yet have the
community say sounds great cuz the games for it are going to rock
speaking of 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
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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
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