Nvidia employee acknowledges Tegra 239 SoC rumored to be powering Switch 2

[Pemalite]

SKMBlake said:

Pemalite said:

There were so many crazy assertions on what the Switch was/wasn't before it's unveil. Heck. Even as recently as the Switch OLED being a 4k gaming device.

I still believe that the rumors were true, but Nintendo decided at the last minute to scrap the idea on a big upgrade over the regular Switch. Cause when you have a look to the rumours, this is pretty much what we had back then:

- new Switch with bigger OLED screen

- ethernet port

- bigger internal memory

- "MS Surface-like stand"

- 4K output

- upcoming games to be "4K ready"

And we got pretty much everything correct, and even the new dock can technically output 4K and 120fps (I don't recall if it was at the same time or just 4k@60 or 1080p@120fps) EXCEPT for the new Tegra chip.

And yet... It didn't actually happen.
It's not like Nintendo did a bait-and-switch at the last moment and opted to retain the old chip, these things are planned years in advance.