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katakpisang on 16 January 2017
Eurogamer's leak is not really sourced. There is nothing backing it up but their reputation, and they even state that they sat on the info for months, while we heard just before that that the final devkits were more powerful than july dev kits.

Foxconn rumor from december actually was proven true on friday when Nintendo revealed the Switch fully.

The foxconn rumor here: https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwi...at_foxconn_is/
- leaks that the shoulder buttons on the joycons are called SL and SR. Which is confirmed and can be seen in pictures and video of the device.

-leak also says that the device will be bundled with an "orange" and blue joycon, which was confirmed friday with the neon bundle. (his assumption was that it was a splatoon bundle)

-leak also says the battery capacity is 4310mah, which is pretty much impossible to guess, and was confirmed friday.

-leak confirmed 4GB

-leak confirmed 1600mhz ram

-leak confirmed no fan in dock

-leak confirmed USB-C and all ports of the dock correctly (including those hidden by the back panel)

-leaked the very complex joycons.

Says the CPU is clocked at 1.78ghz and assumes it is A73 (it could also be A72, but wouldn't be A57 because power draw would be too high) (this also makes sense because the 20nm A57 4 core @ 1ghz consumes the same power as A72 at 1.7ghz.

Says the GPU is 921mhz instead of Eurogamer's 768ghz.

Nate was saying pascal, and it looks like it is 16nm SoC.

I'd say this rumor is far more believable than the Eurogamer one simply because of all the above confirmed info. There is simply no way this person didn't see the device at foxconn and the location he originally posted from was foxconn, so it is all but accepted at this point.
about 1080p there's translation error from reddit and corrected by gaf user gtx990
No, I can read Chinese original post. The resolution is the signal's resolution sent to the TV, not the screen on the device. And the translator mixed leak and speculation.

and about 4g edition it may/not true, need to wait until nintendo finalise their hardware announcement like os/network/edition.
credit to neogaf user z0m3le



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FunFan on 16 January 2017

And Nintendo have no intention of clearing things up, of course...



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TheWPCTraveler on 16 January 2017

Good lord, 4310 mAh. I expected something bigger than that on a 6.2" device.

Now I know where Nintendo skimped out, the battery. The worst place to skip out on.



 
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Ck1x on 16 January 2017
katakpisang said:
Eurogamer's leak is not really sourced. There is nothing backing it up but their reputation, and they even state that they sat on the info for months, while we heard just before that that the final devkits were more powerful than july dev kits.

Foxconn rumor from december actually was proven true on friday when Nintendo revealed the Switch fully.

The foxconn rumor here: https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwi...at_foxconn_is/
- leaks that the shoulder buttons on the joycons are called SL and SR. Which is confirmed and can be seen in pictures and video of the device.

-leak also says that the device will be bundled with an "orange" and blue joycon, which was confirmed friday with the neon bundle. (his assumption was that it was a splatoon bundle)

-leak also says the battery capacity is 4310mah, which is pretty much impossible to guess, and was confirmed friday.

-leak confirmed 4GB

-leak confirmed 1600mhz ram

-leak confirmed no fan in dock

-leak confirmed USB-C and all ports of the dock correctly (including those hidden by the back panel)

-leaked the very complex joycons.

Says the CPU is clocked at 1.78ghz and assumes it is A73 (it could also be A72, but wouldn't be A57 because power draw would be too high) (this also makes sense because the 20nm A57 4 core @ 1ghz consumes the same power as A72 at 1.7ghz.

Says the GPU is 921mhz instead of Eurogamer's 768ghz.

Nate was saying pascal, and it looks like it is 16nm SoC.

I'd say this rumor is far more believable than the Eurogamer one simply because of all the above confirmed info. There is simply no way this person didn't see the device at foxconn and the location he originally posted from was foxconn, so it is all but accepted at this point.
about 1080p there's translation error from reddit and corrected by gaf user gtx990
No, I can read Chinese original post. The resolution is the signal's resolution sent to the TV, not the screen on the device. And the translator mixed leak and speculation.

and about 4g edition it may/not true, need to wait until nintendo finalise their hardware announcement like os/network/edition.
credit to neogaf user z0m3le

This is very interesting and I remember when this leak showed up everyone there on NeoGaf quickly dismissed it! But as you stated after the reveal this leak has more credibility then Eurogamer stuff or than most developers might know about the final Switch hardware. Since this person who leaked the information actually saw the device in production it could be that what the early leakers were from just the early devkits...



Jranation on 16 January 2017

Oh! Interesting!



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Wyrdness on 16 January 2017

What's more ironic is the leak from 4chan about two weeks ago leaking some of the first year games that got dismissed by GAF as well turned out to be 100% legit as well, I remember they even bannedthe person who originally posted the leak.



Random_Matt on 16 January 2017

Desperation.

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HollyGamer on 16 January 2017

Well that's mean no company is save from leak, the problem is to determine which is rumor and leak is worth to trust , I bet Digital foundry is the best for hardware prediction and some foxcon employee for design and other details. Great then i cannot wait for Xbox Scorpio and next gen PS consoles



Jranation on 16 January 2017

"Says the GPU is 921mhz instead of Eurogamer's 768ghz"

Is that better or worse?



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FunFan on 16 January 2017
Jranation said:
"Says the GPU is 921mhz instead of Eurogamer's 768ghz"

Is that better or worse?

Slightly better, but the biggest factor is still GPU architechture. Maxwell or Pascal. And if it's 16nm or not.



“Simple minds have always confused great honesty with great rudeness.” - Sherlock Holmes, Elementary (2013).

"Did you guys expected some actual rational fact-based reasoning? ...you should already know I'm all about BS and fraudulence." - FunFan, VGchartz (2016)