Switch OLED model just got announced.

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New screen looks nice and crisp and unless they played up the audio in the trailer, it also sounds much better than the previous models. And the kickstand would finally be actually usable.

However, this should have come at no price increase, even with the other improvements. Paying $50 more for this is simply not worth it. Unless they bundle it with a game that is, as that would soak up the extra cost. And a question that still stands is: how will the battery life be affected by the bigger, brighter screen?

As for the lack of hardware upgrade, I was fully expecting this.

There hasn't been any new Tegra announced or leaked which could have pointed at it, so there simply wasn't any new hardware possible apart from a Switch (ha!) to X2. But since the die-shrink of the X1, the performance advantage of the X2 would be slim at best. It's successors Xavier, Orin and Atlan, all of them being developed with the automotive industry in mind, are way too large and power-consuming to be of any use in a handheld without modification. In Xavier's case, it's the Volta GPU that was 100% geared for HPC and other industrial work and is just very unefficient as a gaming GPU. Also, Orin and Atlan are late, with Orin only really releasing next year and Atlan in 2025.

As a result, there is a distinct lack of viable option for a hardware upgrade until next year earliest unless NVidia would go on and make a totally custom Tegra chip for Nintendo, something NVidia has denied to be willing to do several times over.