‘Nintendo Switch with OLED screen to be released in September or October’
Nintendo is going to release the new version of the Switch console in September or October. At least that is what Bloomberg journalist Takashi Mochizuki reports on the basis of sources who are said to be familiar with the matter.
Mochizuki writes on Bloomberg that the assembly of the new Nintendo Switch is already planned for July. Then the first units will also be shipped after assembly, after which production will be ramped up to reach a peak for the period October to December.
Parts suppliers are said to be confident in its ability to fulfill orders from Nintendo, despite ongoing chip shortages. The production lines would be better prepared for the various components required and the parts would also have less competition compared to Nintendo’s competitors.
According to the sources, the new console may already be announced before the E3 presentation on June 12, so that the various publishers can already show their new Switch games during that presentation. A Nintendo spokesperson declined to comment.
No details are known about the new Switch yet, but an upgrade in the form of an OLED screen is assumed, instead of the LCDs that are in the current Switch versions. It would be a 7-inch OLED screen, which is larger than the 6-inch screen of the regular Switch. Furthermore, there would be a faster Nvidia-soc, a claim that Bloomberg also made earlier. That new soc would have more cpu and gpu computing power than the current Tegra X1 soc and support for Deep Learning Super Sampling. That is an upscale technique that has been in Nvidia video cards since 2018. The new soc would also enable 4k output when the Switch is connected to a television via HDMI.
The Nintendo Switch first came out in 2017, after which the Japanese manufacturer introduced the Switch Lite variant in 2019. A revision of the Switch also appeared in that year, with a more economical variant of the Nvidia Tegra X1 soc and other nand memory. There have been rumors about the arrival of a new Switch for a long time.
Original Nintendo Switch from 2017