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This part doesn’t make sense at all.

There aren’t any 3GB modules that help add up to the 6GB and also fit the 128-bit interface.

It makes no sense for these devs to be so shocked about this performance if Nintendo is the one giving them these dev kits and the ones that receive it are being briefed already on what to aim for perf wise.


And if the previous was already being compared to the Pro and One X in terms of perf (docked) for it to be clocked higher and now being seen as “wow truly next gen!” Seems so odd to me.

PS4 Pro and One X performance is already next gen as hell coming from the switch. Hell, One X has superior GPU perf be the series S.


And if it’s going beyond the PS4 Pro (1536 @ 1.3GHz), I’m assuming it also has a potentially higher clocked CPU too.


The memory bandwidth for this would be so offensively limited I feel and very much crippling for this system.


Unless they have something that alleviates this, the 102GB/s for a device like this would be so weirdly imbalanced imo.


I’m sorry but this post doesn’t make sense at all.
 
Polygon said:
Got more from another person and I wasn't expecting it. What I'm posting is what I know. I won't get more from this person it was a random event to meet them. I'm not interested in people with 30 posts that don't beleive me. Take it or don't. I don't care. If I did I'd go for twitter insider fame or sell this info to a site which would generate thousands in clicks.

Ram was increased from 6gb to 12gb during H1 2022. Clocks also much higher than expected in newer dev kits. Devs go from thinking 'pro/x' to 'wow next gen console' and not only next gen but as I said before 'this feels like the graphical bump we wanted in 2005 from ninty' type comments from more than 1 but they don't believe it will be marketed as next gen but rather as another option in current line up. I personally think they want the PS2's crown of best selling console ever.

The Wild West runs like it does on SD but at higher resolutions due to dlss and at 60fps 'crazy to see on a handheld'... 'lots of ps4/xbo ports will come' and xbss/ps5 ports more than possible due to cpu and dlss.

Developers have asked for 16gb ram... rofl again 'never happy' when it comes to ram so that says to me that the CPU and GPU are more than enough.

Again Q1 2023 is the launch window think due to Fairy Sky Boy 2.

Fuck my head hurts lol. That's all for now x
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Do yourself a favor and Hide this before the ants swarm.
 
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Polygon said:
Got more from another person and I wasn't expecting it. What I'm posting is what I know. I won't get more from this person it was a random event to meet them. I'm not interested in people with 30 posts that don't beleive me. Take it or don't. I don't care. If I did I'd go for twitter insider fame or sell this info to a site which would generate thousands in clicks.

Ram was increased from 6gb to 12gb during H1 2022. Clocks also much higher than expected in newer dev kits. Devs go from thinking 'pro/x' to 'wow next gen console' and not only next gen but as I said before 'this feels like the graphical bump we wanted in 2005 from ninty' type comments from more than 1 but they don't believe it will be marketed as next gen but rather as another option in current line up. I personally think they want the PS2's crown of best selling console ever.

The Wild West runs like it does on SD but at higher resolutions due to dlss and at 60fps 'crazy to see on a handheld'... 'lots of ps4/xbo ports will come' and xbss/ps5 ports more than possible due to cpu and dlss.

Developers have asked for 16gb ram... rofl again 'never happy' when it comes to ram so that says to me that the CPU and GPU are more than enough.

Again Q1 2023 is the launch window think due to Fairy Sky Boy 2.

Fuck my head hurts lol. That's all for now x
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I am not questioning what you say, much less, but I would like to know from the rest of the users what they think about this, if they think it is real or not and why.
Thank you.
 
Raccoon said:
I assume he's talking about ram available to games
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The problem is that I don't think 64-bit 56 Gb (7 GB) LPDDR5 modules (for 128-bit 14 GB of LPDDR5) exist, assuming 2 GB of RAM is reserved for the OS, and assuming that the devkits originally have 8 GB of LPDDR5 of RAM, with 2 GB reserved for the OS.
 
Onizuka said:
I am not questioning what you say, much less, but I would like to know from the rest of the users what they think about this, if they think it is real or not and why.
Thank you.
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I mean, I don't think it's real. Most of what they say carries a bit of fanfiction energy, which doesn't necessarily mean it's fake but does give me pause. It's not worth fighting about though. It's fun to read and think about, and for me that's all I expect.

If you're worried about your expectations being too high, I would lower them.
 
Raccoon said:
I mean, I don't think it's real. Most of what they say carries a bit of fanfiction energy, which doesn't necessarily mean it's fake but does give me pause. It's not worth fighting about though. It's fun to read and think about, and for me that's all I expect.

If you're worried about your expectations being too high, I would lower them.
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Me expectations are already below PS2


I cannot go further!


;)
 
My general guess, which is what I thought when reading this, is if the information relayed is true is that Nintendo could've been doing a single channel configuration initially, which I realize has it's own quirks and issues. The other thing I could maybe consider is that the initial development target kits used an LDDR4 variant before the finalized devkits were configured. Again, I'm speculating here and obviously take my thoughts at face value.
 
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Maybe it's 12 GB total for the devkit - 8 GB for the end product and 4 GB extra for development. It first being 6 GB doesn't make sense (to me) for this though since it's what the original switch devkits had and OLED having 8 GB.

Guessing it isn't normal to pair an 8 GB module with a 4GB module for a final product? Doubling same size modules is always preferred?
 
2B said:
Maybe it's 12 GB total for the devkit - 8 GB for the end product and 4 GB extra for development. It first being 6 GB doesn't make sense (to me) for this though since it's what the original switch devkits had and OLED having 8 GB.

Guessing it isn't normal to pair an 8 GB module with a 4GB module for a final product? Doubling same size modules is always preferred?
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But the dev kit has 16GB based on the previous information, not 12GB.
 
Polygon said:
Got more from another person and I wasn't expecting it. What I'm posting is what I know. I won't get more from this person it was a random event to meet them. I'm not interested in people with 30 posts that don't beleive me. Take it or don't. I don't care. If I did I'd go for twitter insider fame or sell this info to a site which would generate thousands in clicks.

Ram was increased from 6gb to 12gb during H1 2022. Clocks also much higher than expected in newer dev kits. Devs go from thinking 'pro/x' to 'wow next gen console' and not only next gen but as I said before 'this feels like the graphical bump we wanted in 2005 from ninty' type comments from more than 1 but they don't believe it will be marketed as next gen but rather as another option in current line up. I personally think they want the PS2's crown of best selling console ever.

The Wild West runs like it does on SD but at higher resolutions due to dlss and at 60fps 'crazy to see on a handheld'... 'lots of ps4/xbo ports will come' and xbss/ps5 ports more than possible due to cpu and dlss.

Developers have asked for 16gb ram... rofl again 'never happy' when it comes to ram so that says to me that the CPU and GPU are more than enough.

Again Q1 2023 is the launch window think due to Fairy Sky Boy 2.

Fuck my head hurts lol. That's all for now x
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Forget the haters. I appreciate this content. If it turns out to be made up fan-fic then ya, a lot of people (myself included) will be bummed at you (and demand perma-ban) but till then... LET THE HYPE FLOW.
 
Polygon said:
Got more from another person and I wasn't expecting it. What I'm posting is what I know. I won't get more from this person it was a random event to meet them. I'm not interested in people with 30 posts that don't beleive me. Take it or don't. I don't care. If I did I'd go for twitter insider fame or sell this info to a site which would generate thousands in clicks.

Ram was increased from 6gb to 12gb during H1 2022. Clocks also much higher than expected in newer dev kits. Devs go from thinking 'pro/x' to 'wow next gen console' and not only next gen but as I said before 'this feels like the graphical bump we wanted in 2005 from ninty' type comments from more than 1 but they don't believe it will be marketed as next gen but rather as another option in current line up. I personally think they want the PS2's crown of best selling console ever.

The Wild West runs like it does on SD but at higher resolutions due to dlss and at 60fps 'crazy to see on a handheld'... 'lots of ps4/xbo ports will come' and xbss/ps5 ports more than possible due to cpu and dlss.

Developers have asked for 16gb ram... rofl again 'never happy' when it comes to ram so that says to me that the CPU and GPU are more than enough.

Again Q1 2023 is the launch window think due to Fairy Sky Boy 2.

Fuck my head hurts lol. That's all for now x
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You just made the day of a lot of Youtubers.

And mine, you better be right cause Chad Warden cannot hold a candle to this if true. Holy H***grenade
 
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I think people are overthinking the ram. it's probably just 8GB modules and having partitions (or telling devs to keep in mind allocation) rather than using a mix of chips.
 
2B said:
Guessing it isn't normal to pair an 8 GB module with a 4GB module for a final product? Doubling same size modules is always preferred?
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2B said:
Ah, I missed that part. So what about my second paragraph*? Is it unheard of to have 8 GB + 4 GB or 3x 4 GB modules?
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Correct for both questions. The same principle from the second question also applies when installing RAM on a PC.

I don't know if 32-bit 4 GB LPDDR5 modules exist. But assuming there exists 32-bit 4 GB LPDDR5 modules, three 32-bit 4 GB LPDDR5 modules yields 92-bit 12 GB LPDDR5 for RAM, which yields 73.6 GB/s for the memory bandwidth, at best, since Drake has a max memory bus width of 128-bit.

And assuming Nintendo plans on using a motherboard very similar in size of the OLED model's motherboard for Nintendo's new hardware equipped with Drake, and assuming the form factor of Nintendo's new hardware equipped with Drake is very similar to the OLED model's form factor, I don't think there's enough room in the motherboard to fit three 32-bit 4 GB LPDDR5 modules and an adequate cooling solution.
 
Ack! My Discord profile got compromised, but I was able to resecure the account. I've changed all passwords and 2FA is still active as always. I just felt I've missed some discussion that might've entailed regarding process nodes and RAM.
 
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I think what polygon has shared makes sense.

If this product is going into mass production soon its likely the recent dev kits are on final silicon. Hence the boost, any dev kit that came before would have been a mish mash of parts or could have simply been a PC set to emulate the target hardware using NVN2.

The RAM comment could have been RAM available to games, if they were previously going to use sammy 8nm and have a modest upgrade then a single 8gb module may have been fine and what was in the dev kit. With TSMC 5/6nm being the chosen final node due to changes in demand for nvidia products maybe they went for 16gb of RAM with 12gb available for games and a meatier OS?

Who knows. Lots of assumptions on my part but plausible plans have been changing and the hardware evolving.
 
Polygon said:
Got more from another person and I wasn't expecting it. What I'm posting is what I know. I won't get more from this person it was a random event to meet them. I'm not interested in people with 30 posts that don't beleive me. Take it or don't. I don't care. If I did I'd go for twitter insider fame or sell this info to a site which would generate thousands in clicks.

Ram was increased from 6gb to 12gb during H1 2022. Clocks also much higher than expected in newer dev kits. Devs go from thinking 'pro/x' to 'wow next gen console' and not only next gen but as I said before 'this feels like the graphical bump we wanted in 2005 from ninty' type comments from more than 1 but they don't believe it will be marketed as next gen but rather as another option in current line up. I personally think they want the PS2's crown of best selling console ever.

The Wild West runs like it does on SD but at higher resolutions due to dlss and at 60fps 'crazy to see on a handheld'... 'lots of ps4/xbo ports will come' and xbss/ps5 ports more than possible due to cpu and dlss.

Developers have asked for 16gb ram... rofl again 'never happy' when it comes to ram so that says to me that the CPU and GPU are more than enough.

Again Q1 2023 is the launch window think due to Fairy Sky Boy 2.

Fuck my head hurts lol. That's all for now x
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If true, I assume Drake is surely on 6 or 5nm at this point.
The only thing that sounds weird for me is the "6gb to 12gb" especially this recently. First, 6gb seems like a very low amount then doubling the RAM this "late" seems weird. But may be the person made an error and said 6gb rather than 8gb? If that's the case, my doubts are kind of resolved.
 
ShaunSwitch said:
With TSMC 5/6nm being the chosen final node due to changes in demand for nvidia products maybe they went for 16gb of RAM with 12gb available for games and a meatier OS?
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I don't think the process node used to fabricate Drake really has anything to do with the RAM. And reserving 4 GB of RAM to the OS seems extremely excessive, especially compared to the Xbox Series X, which reserves only 2.5 GB for the OS. I feel confident the OS of Nintendo's hardware equipped with Drake is going to be extremely lean compared to the Xbox Series X's OS.
 
Dakhil said:
I don't think the process node used to fabricate Drake really has anything to do with the RAM. And reserving 4 GB of RAM to the OS seems extremely excessive, especially compared to the Xbox Series X, which reserves only 2.5 GB for the OS. I feel confident the OS of Nintendo's hardware equipped with Drake is going to be extremely lean compared to the Xbox Series X's OS.
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You are probably right, I'm just trying to get the peg to fit so to speak.

I do think if the power of the console increased enough during development it would necessitate more ram though.
 
ReddDreadtheLead said:
This part doesn’t make sense at all.

There aren’t any 3GB modules that help add up to the 6GB and also fit the 128-bit interface.

It makes no sense for these devs to be so shocked about this performance if Nintendo is the one giving them these dev kits and the ones that receive it are being briefed already on what to aim for perf wise.


And if the previous was already being compared to the Pro and One X in terms of perf (docked) for it to be clocked higher and now being seen as “wow truly next gen!” Seems so odd to me.

PS4 Pro and One X performance is already next gen as hell coming from the switch. Hell, One X has superior GPU perf be the series S.


And if it’s going beyond the PS4 Pro (1536 @ 1.3GHz), I’m assuming it also has a potentially higher clocked CPU too.


The memory bandwidth for this would be so offensively limited I feel and very much crippling for this system.


Unless they have something that alleviates this, the 102GB/s for a device like this would be so weirdly imbalanced imo.


I’m sorry but this post doesn’t make sense at all.
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I assumed the "previous" one being discussed was from like a year or two ago.
 
clocks being higher has to mean Samsung 8nm is out at this point, which is pretty big if and when that's confirmed to be true. the beast we've all been waiting for!
 
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When I hear these sort of specs I get excited and then I always wonder about battery and storage. Hopefully they’re up to snuff.
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Same. While getting excited for these rumored specs I’m trying to figure out where Nintendo will cut corners to keep cost down. And honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if the onboard storage is just 64GB, just like OLED.
 
Cuzizkool said:
Same. While getting excited for these rumored specs I’m trying to figure out where Nintendo will cut corners to keep cost down. And honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if the onboard storage is just 64GB, just like OLED.
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Personally I could care less about battery. If it's only getting 2 hours, fine. There's ways to deal with that. Honestly take a break from your stupid video games and grow up! I kid. But on the real, if that's a trade off for a much more juicy system (for the next 5 years, mind you) it's a good one.

The die shrink mariko style model in a couple years can have the extra battery life. It'll be a nice tick-tock marketing strategy. Focus on amazeballs-4k-nintendo games for Drake and then for drake2 it's just "These same amazeballs with 5+ hours battery life + whatever else upgrade they can fit (bigger screen? bigger storage?)" boom.

Speaking of bigger storage, has Nintendo ever offered tiers of storage? Seems like a missed opportunity to do that with this new one if they don't. I like the idea of the higher storage model throwing in a game bundle too. If it's a $100 step up but it has a game that I was going to buy anyhow that makes it a no-brainer.

You'd have this kind of break down: (oled Switch discontinued)
$199 (mariko) Lite
$249 (mariko) Switch
$399 (drake, 64GB) Switch
$499 (drake, 128GB+, BOTW2 Pack-in) Switch

(Maybe a 2024 drake Lite for $299?)

That looks like a beautiful product line up to me. I think that would put Nintendo in an excellent position moving forward, especially with the fact (rumor) that this new switch sounds like something really special.
 
mjayer said:
Speaking of bigger storage, has Nintendo ever offered tiers of storage?
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WiiU comes to mind. The white basic edition had 8GB while the black deluxe edition was 32GB. Worth noting both were considered paltry offerings back then as well.
 
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Dolce said:
I'm mostly worried in the case of something coming in months time, but anything closer to a year bothers me less. The OLED is easy to justify for me because it means I can upgrade my sister into my Mariko Switch.
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How soon would you be willing to buy the next switch model/potential successor upon release?

With the OLED, battery life is similar to Mariko, and you're mostly paying for the screen and 2x as much storage (64 vs 32GB).

Could you settle with Mariko and share that with your sister and wait 6 months for Drake?

But if you want a switch or your own still while having the successor at the same time
Polygon said:
Got more from another person and I wasn't expecting it. What I'm posting is what I know. I won't get more from this person it was a random event to meet them. I'm not interested in people with 30 posts that don't beleive me. Take it or don't. I don't care. If I did I'd go for twitter insider fame or sell this info to a site which would generate thousands in clicks.

Ram was increased from 6gb to 12gb during H1 2022. Clocks also much higher than expected in newer dev kits. Devs go from thinking 'pro/x' to 'wow next gen console' and not only next gen but as I said before 'this feels like the graphical bump we wanted in 2005 from ninty' type comments from more than 1 but they don't believe it will be marketed as next gen but rather as another option in current line up. I personally think they want the PS2's crown of best selling console ever.

The Wild West runs like it does on SD but at higher resolutions due to dlss and at 60fps 'crazy to see on a handheld'... 'lots of ps4/xbo ports will come' and xbss/ps5 ports more than possible due to cpu and dlss.

Developers have asked for 16gb ram... rofl again 'never happy' when it comes to ram so that says to me that the CPU and GPU are more than enough.

Again Q1 2023 is the launch window think due to Fairy Sky Boy 2.

Fuck my head hurts lol. That's all for now x
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Not sure what to comment really on about the 6GB RAM, but what setup and bus bandwidth did Apple run for their phones again? Probably the same as that.

12GB doesn't mean we'll get it on the final product, as dev kits have higher RAM than the final product. Doesn't rule it out though.

I guess it is a mystery on 6GB referring to being usable RAM for games (2 for OS) but I'm not over thinking this.

My only question for you Polygon is that.. Is this person that you got the info from an actual game developer working on current gen hardware?
ReddDreadtheLead said:
But the dev kit has 16GB based on the previous information, not 12GB.
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From Polygon's first sources? hmm. Unless there are multiple dev kits...

ReddDreadtheLead said:
And if the previous was already being compared to the Pro and One X in terms of perf (docked) for it to be clocked higher and now being seen as “wow truly next gen!” Seems so odd to me.

PS4 Pro and One X performance is already next gen as hell coming from the switch. Hell, One X has superior GPU perf be the series S.
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This sounds like a newer than 8nm mode... Like TSMC 5nm node and closer to 3-4 TFLOPs in docked (basically 1 to 1.3Ghz GPU speed). That raw GPU power + DLSS would indeed be insane. Theoretically would be close to One X and Series S. If devs don't have a problem with the CPU, something like 8 core 1.5 GHz CPU maybe? That would put it 2.33x power gap between current gen CPU ( closer than the 3.5x ish between switch and PS5/X series).. And since the CPU of Series X/S and PS5 haven't been used yet fully durle to cross gen, I can see why I guess.

KMStwo said:
If true, I assume Drake is surely on 6 or 5nm at this point.
The only thing that sounds weird for me is the "6gb to 12gb" especially this recently. First, 6gb seems like a very low amount then doubling the RAM this "late" seems weird. But may be the person made an error and said 6gb rather than 8gb? If that's the case, my doubts are kind of resolved.
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I'm thinking that if true, Nintendo wanted to test how much more RAM would be beneficial to games on Drake. Notably Switch games and last gen ports. This would be 2x as much RAM for games available vs Switch, which is pretty significant. Whether they actually thought at one point 6GB would be enough in the end game, is another matter altogether and I wont bother.
 
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Polygon said:
Got more from another person and I wasn't expecting it. What I'm posting is what I know. I won't get more from this person it was a random event to meet them. I'm not interested in people with 30 posts that don't beleive me. Take it or don't. I don't care. If I did I'd go for twitter insider fame or sell this info to a site which would generate thousands in clicks.

Ram was increased from 6gb to 12gb during H1 2022. Clocks also much higher than expected in newer dev kits. Devs go from thinking 'pro/x' to 'wow next gen console' and not only next gen but as I said before 'this feels like the graphical bump we wanted in 2005 from ninty' type comments from more than 1 but they don't believe it will be marketed as next gen but rather as another option in current line up. I personally think they want the PS2's crown of best selling console ever.

The Wild West runs like it does on SD but at higher resolutions due to dlss and at 60fps 'crazy to see on a handheld'... 'lots of ps4/xbo ports will come' and xbss/ps5 ports more than possible due to cpu and dlss.

Developers have asked for 16gb ram... rofl again 'never happy' when it comes to ram so that says to me that the CPU and GPU are more than enough.

Again Q1 2023 is the launch window think due to Fairy Sky Boy 2.

Fuck my head hurts lol. That's all for now x
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Wow this sounds like a dream machine and honestly too good to be true. If what you are saying and how you got to know this stuff is not some fan fiction, very cool that you are sharing it with us. Though I continue to take everything you said about drake with a super huge grain of salt. Even more so after this post. Not that I think you‘re lying (at least for now), but I will not be convinced until I see that thing, regardless of how credible you are.
 
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Not going to comment in any way to validate or discredit what Polygon has posted; but I do find it comical that the individual they spoke with has expressed thoughts that mirror what many of my contacts have said -- i.e. that they still believe it is just a continuation of the current Switch family line and not a "successor" but they also have no clear idea how Nintendo can or will market it.

As has been said numerous times: it's a Switch & that's all partners really seem to know. They have devkits for a Switch that has more power and DLSS features.
 
I continue to not understand this line drawn between 'Switch successor' / 'Switch continuation' if no one outside of Nintendo knows how this will be marketed. Successors can also be continuations of a brand and hardware concept. The Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance are Game Boys, both more powerful with exclusive software, the latter just adding shoulder buttons and form factors.

I don't really see why a 'successor' console has to be this radical shift in form factor or branding. Considering the Switch's success I'm not expecting a sudden pivot to a successor console called the Nintendo Flip Z with augmented reality visors and a touchscreen controller, or whatever. I'm expecting a next-gen Switch that's called a Switch to leverage the brand name, that looks and plays the same but with better specs.

The more I read about the expected leap in performance and the different architecture, the more I think of this as the Game Boy Advance with an extended cross-gen period thanks to scalability. I wouldn't bat an eye if they called it Switch 2 but since I expect it to blur the cross-gen period then I expect a pro sounding name like Ultra (Hello Apple Watch Ultra!), Advance, Super, or Plus.
 
Apologies for popping in and asking a noob question, but if they wanted to release in early March a la the original Switch, when would mass production have to begin?

I have to think it would be around now, no? Six month lead-in time?
 
Heron said:
Apologies for popping in and asking a noob question, but if they wanted to release in early March a la the original Switch, when would mass production have to begin?

I have to think it would be around now, no? Six month lead-in time?
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Production for the original switch didn't begin until well after October IIRC. Production for the OLED model didn't begin until July 2021, 3 months before it launched.

It definitely doesn't need 6 months.
 
NateDrake said:
Not going to comment in any way to validate or discredit what Polygon has posted; but I do find it comical that the individual they spoke with has expressed thoughts that mirror what many of my contacts have said -- i.e. that they still believe it is just a continuation of the current Switch family line and not a "successor" but they also have no clear idea how Nintendo can or will market it.

As has been said numerous times: it's a Switch & that's all partners really seem to know. They have devkits for a Switch that has more power and DLSS features.
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I mean if Nintendo calls it a Switch, and releases Switch games that they market on that device in 4K, what will people end up thinking other than it's just a more powerful, 4K capable Switch... Then in 2 or 3 years, they can start releasing exclusives for it too, it's not unsimilar to Gameboy Color, which I still think is the closest comparison to what we are going to see, even if the power scale is more in line with a next generation console.
 
NateDrake said:
Not going to comment in any way to validate or discredit what Polygon has posted; but I do find it comical that the individual they spoke with has expressed thoughts that mirror what many of my contacts have said -- i.e. that they still believe it is just a continuation of the current Switch family line and not a "successor" but they also have no clear idea how Nintendo can or will market it.

As has been said numerous times: it's a Switch & that's all partners really seem to know. They have devkits for a Switch that has more power and DLSS features.
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Hmm...fine by me I guess.

I believe the real surprise will be to see how they add that Nintendo flavor to how they will market it: i.e. They're keeping the gimmicks close to their chest.
 
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Serif said:
I don't really see why a 'successor' console has to be this radical shift in form factor or branding.
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Honestly, it seems like Nintendo might not be alone in moving toward more iterative console updates instead of hitting the reset button with new generations. I totally expect Microsoft to do the same. There’s not going to be a Series X X or a Series X Pro, there’s just going to be a Series 2X, and that’s essentially going to be the same thing.

Call it Nintendo Switch Series 2. Is that the same thing as a Nintendo Switch 2? It doesn’t really matter.
 
nintendo switch v2. you could easily market it as "Version 2 of the Nintendo Switch" and not just a switch 2.
 
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Raccoon said:
I keep saying that "New Nintendo Switch" does everything you could want from gen 2/series 2/version 2 etc branding with the benefit of precedent
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I don’t think Nintendo views that as being an outright success, though. And if they truly cared about precedent, that product would have been called 3DSi, or 3DS Advance, or whatever.
 
The other reason “New Nintendo Switch” sort of breaks down is that it only really works if you are planning just one such revision/upgrade. What do you call the successor to New Nintendo Switch if you’re not moving on to some completely different paradigm? New New Nintendo Switch?
 
Gay Bowser said:
The other reason “New Nintendo Switch” sort of breaks down is that it only really works if you are planning just one such revision/upgrade. What do you call the successor to New Nintendo Switch if you’re not moving on to some completely different paradigm? New New Nintendo Switch?
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Newer Nintendo Switch.

Then,

Even Newer Nintendo Switch
Even Newer Still Nintendo Switch
Yet Again Newer Nintendo Switch
As of Yet Newest Nintendo Switch
Oops All Newer Nintendo Switch
 
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