Aside from the Nintendo Switch Lite, which was announced this week, as well as the planned Switch upgrade, something else might be in the works at the big N.

Mike Heskin wrote on Twitter that references to the Switch Lite, as well as the „New” Switch, were already in the 5.0 system software (firmware) released last year. (Only the Lite name is official here, the new version has no proper name yet as it’s unannounced at the moment.) But he said more – although the original Nintendo Switch hardware supports 4 GB of RAM (while its devkit supports 6), the new Switch models would both support 4 or 8 gigabytes of memory, and they would come with LPDDR4X DRAM support, which means the battery life would be slightly better than now, and more playtime is always welcome with open arms. This would be an excellent modification to the current Switch hardware.

Heskin also wrote that the New Switch‘s GPU (graphical processing unit) has a higher clock speed than the Switch Lite, which means this (upgraded?) model would come with slightly better performance. Also, the current Switch only supports 32 GB of internal memory (or storage), but the new version would come with more (and we wrote about it this week when Nintendo requested modifications on the Switch at the FCC in the United States). He thinks there’s no sign of a Pro (or significantly stronger) model for the Nintendo Switch, or, at least it would not be utilising the NVidia Tegra X2 chip.

All that is official for now is that Nintendo would launch the Switch Lite on September 20 with a 200-dollar price tag in the United States (and it’d be 200 GBP in the UK and around 230-250 euros in Europe).

Source: WCCFTech