The Nintendo Switch Pro was long-rumoured and many a gamer were anxious for an announcement from Nintendo, which obviously never came. Digital Foundry has published an article this morning wondering and looking into what actually happened. Did the Nintendo Switch Pro exist and was it morphed and beefed up into the Nintendo Switch 2, or was it all just baloney? The answer? It was an amalgamation of things.
“it now seems plausible that the Switch Pro was an amalgamation of rumours: a combination of the Switch OLED model and formative work on the console that’ll finally hit stores on June 5th this year.”
“We were concerned about the Tegra X1 powering the original Switch based on its showing in the Nvidia Shield Android TV micro-console – and yet developers delivered miracles from its relatively meagre capabilities.”
“Switch 2’s T239 may be “old” by this point, while raw horsepower is some way off current-gen consoles – even Xbox Series S – but the features are there and crucially the support is there from game-makers. And Cyberpunk 2077 – the benchmark game – at launch? Let’s just say we’re really looking forward to it.”
We’re getting to a point where chasing better graphics is starting to have diminishing returns. In the end, what really matters is replay value, gameplay, story, and solid exclusives.
Sure, the Switch 2 won’t be on par visually with the PS5 or Xbox Series X… but does it have to be? The comparison videos for Final Fantasy and Cyberpunk already look great. Nintendo always finds a way to squeeze every bit of performance out of their systems, so I’m expecting great things from their first-party games.
If you said this on Facebook, you’d have some dudebro gamers foaming at the mouth about how the “Switch 2 is 10 year old tech & is for children! “Realistic” graphics are for adult gamers! Just a Nintendrone! Blah, blah, blahbity, blah! gurglegargle*”
Switch Pro never existed; it’s a fan fantasy.
It’s just the OLED Switch, period.
And Tegra 239 is outdated technology?! It’s a chip from 2024 with recent features!
Digital Foundry is definitely talking nonsense.
The recent motherboard leak showed the chip was from 2021.
Just because the tegra 234 is from 2021 doesn’t mean Nvidia just reused the chip as it is… If we “follow” the rumors, it also mixes in Ada Lovelace technologies, which is not insignificant… To conclude, Nvidia doesn’t have anything better as a mobile chip so far, so good, and nothing says they haven’t added other more recent technologies; for instance, DLSS 2.0, which is from Ampere, is now outdated.
It’s from 2021, built with the technology of that period (Samsung 8 nm, A78 cores and Ampere architecture). It’s still cool technology, but the meager battery depends also on that.
It’s not nonsense at all.
Let’s be honest here: Switch 2 could have the very best graphics possible and there would STILL be a bunch of people saying the console is weak and the visuals suck. 🤷♂️
And Digital Foundry probably woukd say something like:”Switch 2 graphics are nearly indistinguishable from real life, but only nearly. And since Nintendo couldn’t achieve real real life graphics, we kind of see this a failure.”
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I wish these killjoys would just p!ss off.
If they show a thumbs down you may as well give up on a console.
I hate them.
Nintendo cultists love Digital Foundry whenever they say something good about Nintendo, but the moment they reveal the cold hard facts that Switch 2 technology isn’t the ‘omg cutting edge better than Series S’ piece of hardware they thought it was, suddenly DF is practically evil and literally ‘hated’.
But some of you guys probably still believe the Wii was more powerful than the PS3 and Twilight Princess had objectively better ‘ArTsTyLe’ than Gears of War.