I can’t be the only one thinking finally…
The Switch was reasonably powered at launch but now feels positively antiquated compared to the Steam Deck and the like, there is no way I would buy any third party games on it right now when I’ve got a PS5 sitting right next to it.
All I need is a good spec bump to get games running at 1440p / 60fps in docked mode to make me happy!
1080p/30 is the max they'll do, and is sufficient for 95% of users.
1440p on a handheld screen seems excessive to me.
Oh yea, you could do 1080p or even 800p like a Steam Deck in handheld mode and I think that that would be fine, on a TV it should be > 1080p tho
1080p games upscale really well on even my few year old cheaper TCL Roku TV. If we could get 1080p 60 FPS more steadily, that would be good enough, and I'd imagine most of their audience wouldn't care about the extra pixels.
Steam Deck + Switch = Switch 2. Probably better hardware, and not much else besides some nifty software gimmicks
I hope it's just "Switch Pro"
I doubt it. Next year the Switch will be 7 years old. That's firmly in "next generation" territory.
The new console should be backwards compatible (and if Nintendo have any sense at all, boost framerates for Switch games), but I wouldn't expect new games to keep coming out for the old Switch once the new one picks up a decent number of users.
Yeah but Nintendo doesn't seem interested in pushing hardware. Just being well "Nintendo"
Let this be true.
These fuckin cunts just 2 months ago claimed there is no next gen console in the works
I mean, they kind of have to do that, or else you get the Osborne Effect where everyone just waits for the new version, and your business suffers.
ETA: also, source? They usually say they won't comment, or that there's always something new in development at all times. Don't they?
I remember back in the 90s N64 magazines were always posting rumors about the "Dolphin" console that Nintendo was supposed to be developing, which eventually became the Gamecube. Nintendo also was more open back then, with their famous Mario 128 tech demo for example. Also the Nintendo DD rumors were huge as well, which turned out to be a big failure and never released outside of Japan.
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