We have been talking about Nintendo Switch 2 for some time, and this has generated some discomfort among Nintendo Switch users because they believe that the end of its life cycle is approaching. There is a part of truth in this, that is, the fact that we are already talking about its successor means that little by little its useful life is running out, but this does not mean that we are going to find ourselves with a radical and instantaneous transition, nothing could be further from reality.
The president of Nintendo, Shuntaro Furukawa, has confirmed in an interview with the Japanese media Nikkei that they will continue to support Nintendo Switch during 2024 and 2025, which means that even if the launch of the new generation model occurs next year The coming version will coexist with the current console, and will do so for a period of approximately two years. This is something totally normal that, in fact, we have already seen with Sony and Microsoft consoles.
For you, as a Nintendo Switch user, this means that your console will have a couple more years of support and that during that stage it will continue to receive games and updates. If you were worried that your console would be abandoned to its fate, you can rest assured, that the Japanese company is aware that it has a huge user base, and it is not going to turn its back on them.
All in all, I cannot guarantee that the games you receive will be exactly the same as those we will see on Nintendo Switch 2. In fact, I think it is most likely that some exclusive games will arrive to the latter to increase interest on the part of users and thus encourage them. to make the leap to the new generation, but even in this case, it is good news, since it confirms an approximate useful life of 8 years for the big N console.
As for Nintendo Switch 2, everything seems to indicate that the console will hit the market in the first half of 2024, although some sources point to the summer of that year, and that it will use a customized NVIDIA Tegra SoC. I have already told you before that it would not be possible to directly transfer solutions like Tegra Orin due to a TDP issue, but we could see versions of this adapted to a TDP of 15 or 20 watts that would work without problem on a laptop.
That new SoC is rumored to have an 8-core Cortex-A78 ARM CPU and an Ampere GPU with between 1,280 and 1,536 shaders. This architecture is the same that NVIDIA uses in the GeForce RTX 30, which means that it would have dedicated hardware to accelerate ray tracing and that it would support DLSS Super Resolution and Ray Reconstruction.
