The big N once again shuts down rumours regarding a Nintendo Switch with more power under its hood.

Bloomberg wrote about how allegedly eleven video game companies have received a package from Japan, containing a Nintendo Switch devkit… but this one can support 4K resolution! Remember that the original Switch, launched in March 2017, was never meant to reach 4K…

According to the site’s sources, the new devkit is nearly identical to the original model. Still, it has more memory for debugging, and it can connect to a PC via a few additional ports. Bloomberg believes it could be used for a new platform that will not release before the end of 2022. (Lisa Su, AMD’s CEO, also thinks the chip shortage will prevail until the end of next year.)

Nintendo’s investor relations Twitter account denied all these rumours with the following statement: “A news report on Sept. 30, 2021 (JST) falsely claims that Nintendo is supplying tools to drive game development for a Nintendo Switch with 4K support. To ensure correct understanding among our investors and customers, we want to clarify that this report is false. We also want to restate that, as we announced in July, we have no plans for any new model other than Nintendo Switch – OLED Model, which will launch on October 8, 2021.”

So they repeated what they said in July (when we wrote about their first denying of such rumours), but let’s think logically. The Switch is more than four years old (with only one price cut in Europe, only due to conversion rates). It is getting long in the tooth, especially for upcoming games. The OLED version will not have stronger hardware (the only difference is the larger display, and the dock has a LAN port on it).

So a new platform should be in the works by now…

Source: WCCFTech