Rumors of Nintendo's new Switch2 are rife, and now a newly published patent from Nintendo shows an all-new gaming device. Most likely, it is a new machine that Nintendo is preparing for.
You can see that the patent is called "Portable Gaming Device". The picture shows that it should be a handheld device. The appearance is rectangular with a joystick and a cross button. The back is very simple, with only two heat vents.
At the top are the controller buttons, the power on buttons, the volume keys, the heat vents, the headphone holes, the cassette slots, and the controller buttons, among others.
The bottom aspect is followed by the charging port, speaker, home button, speaker and screenshot key.
Obviously, this patent is very different from the current Switch's appearance, because the Switch is a removable handle, and this device seems to have a built-in non-removable handle. The overall exterior styling looks closer to the current Switch Lite.
Xiaobian expects that this should be an improved and optimized Switch Lite, which is closer to the handheld than Switch Lite. For example, the current current Switch Lite is a dual stick and dual buttons, while this handheld only retains a joystick and directional buttons. In addition, the home button and screenshot button on the front have also been changed to the bottom. The advantage of this design is that it can maintain the size of the handheld, leaving more space on the front for the screen. And like the current Switch Lite, the base mode should not be supported, because the TypeC port is placed on the edge, not in the middle of the bottom. Another strange design is that there is no ZR and ZL keys, after all, there are still many games that require ZR and ZL keys.
Therefore, it can be more daring to guess that Nintendo should be preparing a new machine closer to the handheld, perhaps the Lite version of the Switch 2. It's called the switch2 lite for the time being.
In order to reduce the size, the rounded corners may be smaller.
Now it seems that although the Switch Lite sales are not as good as the Switch, Nintendo still does not want to give up the pure handheld and low-cost game console market.
The specific conjecture of this switch2 lite is as follows:
- The size is similar to the current Switch Lite, and the main thing is small and portable
- The screen will be a little larger than the current Switch Lite, but it will be smaller than the 8-inch Switch 2
- It does not support the base output, it is a pure handheld
- Performance has improved, but not as good as the performance of the Switch 2 (previously rumored to have two chips)
- It is not clear whether there will still be a purely digital version
- The selling price should continue to go low strategy