A Famiboards user picked up on shipping info that leaked the internal storage, some dock info, and the main RAM ... and all of those should make Switch 2 fans pretty happy.
Mainly Nintendo is using the best of the best LPDDR5X RAM and 12GB of it too, not the previous low ball numbers of regular LPDDR5 and only 8GB.
That means the Switch 2 will likely have considerably higher bandwidth than the Steam Deck (88GB/sec versus 120GB/sec) and stock ROG Ally too ... that's fantastic news. It will have the same speed RAM as the just announced this past week $1000 iPad OLED Pros.
So Nintendo didn't "cheap out" and use garbage components.
Even 256GB UFS 3.1 internal storage ... people should be really happy with that, Nintendo could have used cheaper, slower EMMC, UFS 3.1 is quite fast, faster than Steam Deck's stock internal storage, it was used in flagship Android phones from just a few years ago and will give the system much, much faster read/write speeds than the Switch 1.
256GB isn't bad either, that means even the biggest games on the market today like Call of Duty, Final Fantasy Rebirth, or anything else anyone would care to port would fit on the internal storage and still have room left over even with zero compression.
The third bit of interesting news is the dock apparently this time around has its own separate fan for cooling, which likely points to Nintendo is going to be pushing the chip full tilt docked.
This doesn't point to a dirt cheap 3DS/DS/Wii type badly dated system at all. I think this reaffirms the reports from that previous trade event that Nintendo/Epic demoed The Matrix city demo for developers using mock Switch 2 hardware.
I was definitely not expecting LPDDR5X, that is a great choice. Famiboards is the best place for tech discussion on this stuff too, way better than any other board, all the other boards, even ResetEra just basically take info from Famiboards.
These aren't cheap components either, for reference the recently released Google Pixel 8 PRO phone has 12GB LPDDR5X RAM + 256GB UFS 3.1 storage ... the exact same components cited here, and that retails for over *$1000* right now. Switch 2 having the same config is nothing to scoff at, of course the Pixel has other things like multiple cameras and an OLED display, but the Switch 2 has a reportedly way larger screen (7.9 inch vs. 6.7 inch), Joycons, a dock too, which a phone doesn't have. I'm starting to lean into a price point of $449.99 and not $399.99 anymore.
Last edited by Soundwave - on 09 May 2024
