We’ve been hearing that the Japanese company’s next console could hit shelves in early 2025 instead of fall 2024, but now there are rumors to the contrary, and even more about the specifications.

Connor (@OreXda), a Samsung leaker, wrote on Twitter that the Nintendo Switch 2 (unofficial name) could be released in the second half of 2024, in July at the earliest. Nintendo has already signed several major deals with component manufacturers for the initial kit. The Nvidia Tegra T239 chip will be supplied to Nintendo via Samsung Foundry 7LPH; the console’s display will come from Samsung and will be OLED (either the Switch 2 comes with it as standard or they are already producing the OLED version) or LED (Sharp Display is the supplier for this), and the latter may be the one that comes out first.

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-The Nintendo Switch 2 is expected to launch as early as the second half of this year. Significant contracts have already been negotiated in the component industry for initial production.

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— Connor/코너/コナー (@OreXda) April 26, 2024

* Tegra T239 – produced by Samsung Foundry 7LPH

* Display – Samsung OLED

* With the exception that LCD models may be released first (Using Sharp Display)

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— Connor/코너/コナー (@OreXda) April 26, 2024

An analyst from Omdia said earlier this year that the next Nintendo console would come in 2024 with an 8″ display. The Tegra T239 SoC would be based on the Ampere GPU architecture with 1280 CUDA cores and would have 8 A78 Arm CPU cores with 12 GB of RAM. The graphics cards would use 5th generation Samsung V-NAND with a maximum read speed of 1.4 GB/s. Nvidia’s DLSS Super Resolution and Ray Reconstruction would also be implemented in the console, which is capable of hardware ray tracing (but DLSS Frame Generation would be left out), but even with that it would still fall short of the performance of the Xbox Series S. The Steam Deck might be better than it and would cost between $400-500.

In terms of size, the successor will be bigger than the Nintendo Switch, but not as big as the Steam Deck, according to Spanish publication Vandal. The Joy-Con controllers could also get an innovation: they would be magnetically attached to the platform, so they would not use the current rail system, and therefore the old Joy-Cons would not be supported on the new platform, while the Pro Controller would be.

The successor to the Nintendo Switch has yet to be officially announced, so this is all just rumor at the moment.

Source: WCCFTech, WCCFTech, Vandal