NINTENDO NEWS – Since Nintendo filed another patent regarding Nvidia’s DLSS a few days ago, the new Big N hardware will surely introduce upscaling technology.

On March 13, Nintendo filed a patent confirming that the handheld mode of the Nintendo Switch 2 will use upscaling technology to improve the performance of games that support it. The patent also mentioned examples of how the technology will work and even mentioned resolutions (native resolution and upscaled resolution), so these are pretty serious details.

The Nintendo Switch 2 will be a big burden on Nintendo’s shoulders, as the Switch has fought its way to become one of the world’s best-selling consoles over the past eight years (admittedly, the PS2 still holds the record), but the performance and capabilities of the new hardware have not been leaked much by the Japanese company, which finally announced the platform in January, with a special Nintendo Direct in early April. While the Switch will have a bigger screen and new Joy-Con controllers, backwards compatibility will allow many of our older games to run on the new device, while the big N wants to continue supporting the old with more titles (Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition).

Nintendo just released an update for Nintendo Switch 2 on AI resolution Upscaling. It’s happening, folks! pic.twitter.com/6GZUEXeBli

— Mike Odyssey – Nintendo Switch 2 Experience Dallas (@MikeOdysseyYT) March 16, 2025

The patent is about the use of artificial intelligence-based scaling of the platform, and this is detailed. If the game is running in handheld mode at 540p native resolution (and this will presumably be common), it will upscale this to 1080p. Similar to Nvidia’s DLSS or AMD’s FSR, the Nintendo Switch 2’s AI upscaler would run the rendered image through a neural network and rescale it. And the frame rate would be higher than full, traditional rendering. However, the patent did not say how upscaling would affect battery life, or whether the higher resolution would be usable when docked… and of course, it did not say which games would support upscaling.

We’ll know more about Nintendo Switch 2 in a little over two weeks.

Source: GameRant