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SKMBlake said:
13.5 million OLED isn't a bad sales booster. Another booster would be a Switch Lite OLED |
It's not bad, but if you wanted a second half cycle sales booster, probably not the ideal hardware if that is your only focus. OLED screen is great, that screen makes every other Nintendo handheld screen look like total dog shit, but it's kind of limited in how much appeal it can have because it's just (well) a screen.
My guess is they wanted to do a New 3DS/DSi XL style revision with some upgrades under the hood but Nvidia doesn't offer a off-the-shelf chip that would allow that (you can look at other vendors beside Nintendo that use the Tegra X1 or X2 and see you basically only get what Nvidia gives you, there's not much customization allowed). The New 3DS/DSi XL just used existing parts that weren't made expressly for Nintendo by adding some newer ARM cores and RAM, but the Tegra SoC doesn't allow for that I don't think (you don't see a Tegra X1 or X2 with different CPUs for anyone for example).
So they just chose to focus on a screen upgrade instead. Hey I wouldn't mind a Switch 4K or something either, but I don't think it's in the cards at this point. It should be launching with Zelda: TOTK or at minimum we should be getting some kind of leaks from devs or manufacturers if something was coming this year (the OLED screen model did leak but they just misunderstood that it wouldn't come with a hardware bump, Switch Lite and Mariko and PS4 Pro and XBox Series X for that matter all leaked well in advance).
At this point you're better off just leaving things on the table for the proper Switch next-gen successor, the OLED screen itself already feels like a generational upgrade that you'd expect on the next system, why make your job that much harder with the next system.
Last edited by Soundwave - on 08 February 2023
