| siebensus4 said: In case of doubt Nintendo won't change that much within a generation, so 720p. If we will see another switch model or a replacement for the current, it will be more like the New 3DS to the 3DS or Slim PS3 to the fat PS3. Just some small hardware updates due to changes of components which are now cheaper 4 years after the initial release. I don't expect a "pro" model with much more power. A 1080p screen and significant more power will come with the successor (probably 2024). |
You could very well be right if this new rumor is correct: https://mynintendonews.com/2021/03/12/rumour-nvidia-is-apparently-halting-production-of-the-tegra-x1-chipset-thats-in-nintendo-switch-consoles/
According to that, NVIDIA is halting production of the current Tegra X1 SoC that is inside the Switch. The rumor specifically states that it is the Tegra X1 "Mariko" SoC that is going to be halted, which is the die-shrink 16-nm version of it (that one is in the current Switch & Switch Lite models). The original, 20-nm produced version, codenamed "Erista" that was in the launch Switch models, should already be discontinued as TSMC has winded down their 20-nm process node quite a bit.
Now, obviously Nintendo is not going to just stop making Switch systems later this year lol. So, that makes me think that perhaps you are right @siebensus4 : there is no Switch Pro, but instead Nintendo will release just slightly updated/enhanced models, like New Switch Lite and New Switch later this year.
NVIDIA could do a true, Nintendo-only version of the Tegra X1 on a newer TSMC process for them. Like I said above, the Tegra X1 is actually a 8-core design, but Nintendo this whole time has been disabling the four little ARM cores on it. That is just wasted die-space. A 7-nm version built just for Nintendo could just have the ARM Cortex A57 cores. And they could easily be clocked higher while providing better battery life to boot; ditto for the "Maxwell" GPU clockspeeds. Just like with New Nintendo 3DS, this would provide a very modest boost to performance.
And the 4K thing could very well be tied to the dock then; a tensor core co-processor that does the DLSS on it could be inside a new dock that comes with it.
