Man, have you heard what Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang said about the new Nintendo Switch 2’s chip? It’s like a whole performance symphony in your hands. Okay, maybe that’s a bit dramatic, but hey — that’s his job, right? What really caught my ear was his claim about its “performance, intelligence, and beauty.” I know, sounds like he’s talking about a new smartphone or something.
So, Huang showed up in this special Nintendo series called “Creator’s Voice” — kinda unusual if you ask me. Usually, Nintendo doesn’t spill the beans on specs like this, and they especially don’t bring folks in from other companies to chat up their hardware. Uh, does anyone else find that weird?
But anyway, this Nvidia chip is supposedly packing some serious eye candy. We’re talking the snazziest graphics for a mobile device, full-on hardware ray tracing, and high dynamic ranges that’ll make your games pop with bright highlights and super deep shadows. The tech mojo doesn’t end there — it’s also backward compatible. I don’t know about you, but if that means my old games get a facelift, I’m in.
Now, Nintendo had already whispered sweet nothings about some DLSS magic, but Nvidia was kinda hush-hush on the nitty-gritty details in their blog post. They focused on this thing called RT cores — no clue, but it sounds important — and mentioned that the new chip has ten times the graphics oomph of the original Switch. Kinda makes you wonder what the first chipset was, like, thinking, right?
Anyway, then there’s this bit about dedicated AI processors making your games sharper and more animated in real-time. Like, imagine someone waves a magic wand over your game, and poof! Everything’s cooler.
Oh, and the geek details—Digital Foundry spilled some beans in May. The specs! Eight—count ‘em—eight ARM Cortex A78C cores and some old-soul Nvidia Ampere GPU. Plus, 12GB of memory with these fancy LPDDR5X memory modules. I guess it’s like giving your console a double espresso shot?
Storage isn’t shabby either: it comes with 256GB UFS. Whaddya call that? Fast, I think. And if space runs out, just pop in a microSD card up to 2TB. That’s a lot of freaking game space, seriously.
Oh, the video, surprisingly, shifts gears and pays tribute to Satoru Iwata, Nintendo’s fourth president. A nice touch, since he shepherded the original Switch’s creation before he sadly passed away. Feels right to tip the hat to him, you know? Even if just for a sec.
Let’s talk cash—Switch 2 is dropping for $449.99. Throw in Mario Kart World and it bumps up to $499.99 for a short spell. Pre-orders? Yeah, gone in a flash. You might still score one in physical stores on release day, though.
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