I'm surprised to see any news on this trilogy after so many months since the last patch. So the games just got another patch and if this is true and they're taking Switch support in-house, that must imply further work?
I was waiting for a chance to bring stuff like this up!
Another user pointed this out to me, so I want to credit them real quick:
@tee (Hi!)
With more work to be done on the Trilogy but, as far as I know, no info forthcoming about updates for the Xbox or PlayStation versions, I do indeed think post launch support for a lot of games to bring it "up to spec", or at least "gen 9 aware", for the Drake Switch (which I'll call Super Switch from hereonout, not because it's shorter, it isn't, but because I like the name).
Persona 5R apparently runs fine at 60FPS with a modded Switch, as does NierAEoYE, which runs at a higher resolution than the PS4 somehow, and some older titles like SMT5 seem to have plenty of performance (intentionally?) left on the table given enough headroom. I can't help that, between support being extended for certain games specifically for the Switch version, like GTATrilogy, that third parties are preparing for something. There's just a lot of third party games on Switch over the last year that have uncapped performance targets, be that resolution or framerate.
We've heard rumours they've been briefed on this thing a couple times, probably before the VDK went out (VDKs are far from unique to Switch I should note, even N64 had a VDK of sorts.), supposedly twice this year in June and more recently. With VDKs around and functioning, supposedly, this time last year, with factory leaks from August, this thing can't be as far away as some think.
Given the information I'm going off and postulating here, I'd say that when it does launch, there'll be a glut of software support from older titles getting updates for better framerates and/or resolutions. I think Nintendo is being clean about what they release in updates, but there are notable examples of a bit of messiness leaving information out, like the Booster Course Pass' waves, or the firmware updates mentioning 4K, memory and IO changes months before this thing is out.
I personally think
@My Tulpa is closer to the mark than people here are giving him credit for. November release? I doubt it, but I don't think it's impossible! October reveal? Very possible! Reveal this year? I daresay that's likely! (I won't be reheating the reasons as to why they could announce it this year even if it doesn't release but they exist!)