| siebensus4 said: Felipe Lima from the Brasilian videogame outlet Universo Nintendo said that he got information from Nintendo during Gamescom that Nintendo's next system has 12GB RAM, 512GB internal storage, DLSS 3.1 and ray tracing support. It also should have an 8-inch LCD screen and uses cartridges. Nintendo hasn't confirmed anything yet, so please treat it with a grain of salt. If the rumor is true, Nintendo's next system should be somehow comparable with Xbox One X (not Series X – something between PS4 Pro and PS5). https://gamingbolt.com/switch-2-will-have-a-12-gb-ram-the-matrix-tech-demo-was-using-dlss-3-1-rumour |
12GB RAM makes sense. Switch has 4gb from from 2017, so 2024 Switch 2 having 12gb sounds right. Could be slightly less.
I doubt 512gb storage. Switch owners are used to putting their games on SD cards and by the time Switch 2 is out a terabyte SD card won't even be that much money. Nintendo skimped on storage in the Switch to shave off some cost and I don't see them not doing the same thing this time. I'd say its gonna be either 128gb or 256gb, wouldn't surprise me at all if its the smaller.
DLSS 3+ makes sense.
8 inch screen...i don't think so. The OLED is only 7 inches. I think they'll match that 7 inches, I don't see them going to 8. One reason is battery, another reason is Switch 2 might be getting too big to reasonably be portable once you start hitting an 8 inch screen, the Switch is already pushing the limits on what is a good portable size, I could only see them at most slightly increasing the size from the Switch's size. Though even the Switch OLED has a little extra space around it so it could be possible to get a whole extra inch out of the screen by going all the way to the ends while only very slightly increasing the size of the system. Though still even if the system is slightly larger, I would think to keep cost down and to keep battery up they would do 7inch screen with a little space left over, and then later in the gen we'd get an OLED upgrade that could be an 8inch OLED.
And while I'm hoping for OLED screen, LCD has been rumored and they may have decided to do shave off some cost for the launch system by doing LCD. They gotta make sure it is at very most $399 and ideally a lower price than that so doing 128gb and LCD screen in order to make it a powerful system and still affordable makes sense.
Just as Switch is a little more powerful than PS3/360 I'd expect Switch 2 to be in the power range of PS4 and Xbox one. I don't expect PS4 Pro / Xbox one X power though, that seems very unlikely. With DLSS I expect PS4 Pro / Xbox One X results, but not the actual specs to match up. Though I suppose saying comparable to Xbox One X probably means not the raw power but the actual output using DLSS so I suppose that makes sense it could be close to that thanks to superior technologies these days.
I think likely:
7 inch LCD
128gb storage
10-12gb RAM
DLSS 3+
Battery life about what original Switch model had
PS4 level power but with DLSS performs in the PS4 Pro / XBox 1 X range
Dimensions of the system being every so slightly larger than Switch (maybe like a cm longer/taller - also slightly larger joycons, and a few mm thicker)
Under $400
Last edited by Slownenberg - on 10 September 2023
