Questions! How long have you been buying your Switch?
Switch has always been in a high position in the list of "buy and eat ash" list, but still can't stop the enthusiasm of the big guys to buy, although in the first half of the Nintendo earnings conference has shown two consecutive fiscal years of sales decline, but the little devil can still continue to find that relatives and friends around him are buying Switch, and the recent seven-year-old machine released in 2017 finally has the news of iterative products - Switch 2 seems to be coming!
The seven-year-old machine is about to retire! The new generation Nintendo Switch is planned to be released
Recently, Discord user SoldierDelta posted that Nintendo Switch 2 is scheduled to be released on September 24, 2024, its internal development code name is NG, and Nintendo is considering November 3 as a backup release date in order to prevent unexpected situations.
At the same time, the integration of the previous news about the new Switch game console can speculate the approximate performance configuration of the new machine, but before the official release, this type of data can only be used for reference.
Switch 2 is expected to be equipped with an 8-inch 720p LCD screen, support 24Gbps HDMI 2.1, although it does not support a 120Hz refresh rate, but also 10 bit HDR and 4K60 output support.
In terms of core configuration, the new Switch 2 will use the backwards compatible custom NVIDIA Tegra T254 chip, and will also be equipped with Ampere-based GPU to implement ray tracing and NVIDIA's DLSS. In addition, there is also news that the opportunity has a variety of CPU and GPU configuration schemes of different frequencies, so that developers can choose the right configuration for them.
In terms of storage, the Switch 2 has 128-bit 12GB LPDDR5 memory, up to 512GB of eMMC storage, and comes with NVMe SSDs. In terms of battery life, it can provide 3~6 hours of continuous use.
In addition, according to SoldierDelta, Nintendo Switch 2 will be available for $449 (about 3282 yuan) and $400 (about 2924 yuan) pure digital version when it is first released.
Seeing this, some small partners said, didn't it say that there are no plans to launch new machines in 2024?
At the earnings conference in May this year, Nintendo said that it has no plans to launch any new Switch game consoles in fiscal 2024 (March 2024), but if you look closely, it does not say that it will not make plans to implement new consoles in 2024, which is a play on words [stunned]
Eight-year cap? Swtich will last at least until 2025!
This is really not good news for those who have just started, after all, it is really uncomfortable to replace the generation just after buying, but it is gratifying that the life of the original Switch can be extended!
When Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa was recently asked in a recent interview with the Nikkei Shimbun whether the life cycle of the existing Switch can be extended, Tanigawa Shuntaro said that Nintendo will continue to focus on the current Switch business until the end of fiscal year 2024 (March 2024), and will continue to support the Switch in the form of new games until fiscal 2025 (March 2025).
According to the response, the Switch released in 2017 can still ensure health until at least March 2025, and the life of the machine is also guaranteed to be extended to at least eight years, which is almost enough to complete nine years of compulsory education [doghead]