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

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Soundwave said:

DonFerrari said:

It is like when someone go to ask Sony if they are working in PS6, so early in the gen they don't say much (but they sure are) but 2 or 3 years before the launch they will say something along working on the next gen system, that isn't an announcement. The proper announcement will be something like 4-12 months before official depending on their strategy. I would expect similar from Nintendo.

Yup. It's even more useless today not only for the fact that you're just needlessly destroying sales for your existing hardware but because hardware transitions aren't what they used to be anyway. 

In the old days if your new console had old games from the previous system as key software it would be unthinkable (ie: imagine the SNES launched with ... a high res version of Super Mario Bros. 3 instead of Super Mario World or PS2 launched only had basically PSOne games for the first 2-3 years of its product cycle). 

Because cross generation releases for several years is basically now the standard normal, you don't really need to announce a new console years in advance, it is pointless. You're not ending software development for existing hardware any time soon, God of War Ragnarok launches on PS4 this month for example, 2 years after the PS5 launched, I don't think Switch-Switch successor is going to be any different either. Nintendo can just position it as an additive model for a couple of years and just keep making games that run on both systems at different display resolutions without much fuss. 

So for people saying "well you can't end the Switch product cycle now" ... well ... who says you have to. 

I agree with you. I don't see Nintendo ending the Switch lifecycle but rather adding a next gen Switch that will be sold along side the original switch for a time and after a while they will only sell New Switch and Switch lite before eventually replacing the Switch Lite with a New Switch Lite.