@SwitchForce Am not sure we need a bigger screen than the current OLED, which was already a significant step up in size from the original design. There comes a point where any bigger and it's just not practical for most users.
Re. DLSS, the T239 chip heavily rumoured to be in the next console is ampere gen, so is unlikely to offer more than DLSS 2.O. This would still offer a huge performance bump, even if it's not Nvidia's latest and greatest. It would allow the console to be in the race when it came to porting over current gen AAA titles, assuming the rest of the spec holds up.
One paragraph from that Digital Foundry article that really caught my eye was re. the potential use of the file decompression engine found within the T239 chip. This would significantly help to put the Switch 2 on par with the PS5 when it comes to its direct storage abilities. To have the ability to switch between games on a whim encourages extended playtimes and could offer a lot of value for everyone looking to buy the new system.
Here's the quote:
"There's one more component of T239 worthy of comment - the FDE. It's an entirely new hardware block not found in the T234. FDE stands for File Decompression Engine. Similar to the decompression block found in PlayStation 5, this basically allows for ultra-fast decompression of assets from storage and into memory. There was a recent report from Nate The Hate talking about a Breath of the Wild demo running on Switch 2 hardware with zero loading times. Well, T239 has the hardware to facilitate ultra-fast loading, but it's going to need a much faster storage format to make that possible - an area where we are lacking details right now."
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Yeah, storage in general is going to be a huge point of difference. And something I think I've harped on about more than enough for its own thread. Basically it works out that for the price that the 32GB of eMMC storage would've cost at retail when the Wii U launched? You could today get a 500GB M.2 SSD with a PCIe Gen 4 interface i.e. ~300X faster
Of course, there was also a jump between Wii U and Switch and they just continued with 32GB on Switch. Not as significant as the jump since Switch but even so. They could well be cheap again. But I think there's SO much of a gap here between what they're selling and what they could sell that it can't NOT be a generational leap in capacity and speed
To put that in perspective, we obviously always focus on the CPU/GPU/RAM. That's where the magic happens. But what people are talking about for those components is maybe something like a 2-4X jump when we move to "Switch 2". But when you look at storage however? You land on a fairly conservative increase in capacity of ~10X and an increase in storage speed of something in the ~100X. That's nuts. People who have had their heads in the Nintendo-verse are going to be blown away by the storage specs when this thing drops
@Jalex_64 - AFAIK from what I can scrapp off the internet. We get a 8" screen which would mean a bigger handheld and as to Joy-Con size that be something to see and if we get color buttons and magnetic joystick that would be a change. But as they a keeping quiet the specs of what the T239 can do that makes it next to impossible for anyone to know the know. And since they seem to keep tight wrap of NDA that is probably why only the Nvidia leaks was the only thing any basis can be had from it. Using a GPU3x or 4x series to emulate a Switch 2 doesn't tell much what it can do and what DLSS, RT, RTL it has for someone to see what it can do.
Wonder exactley what it will be like ? Will it be anything like wii U or switch, or will there be a new separate handheld and separste console, like I saw reported somewhere ( was it on nintendo life )
@Ninfan I expect those are just Patents but not the what the actual hardware will look like. It's better to patent a future design ideas. They most likely will follow the Switch design format as that seems to be a willing model as others coming out are follow that format. It could be a bigger Switch 2 console and Joy-Cons but still be able to use older Joy-Cons connections. That would be the best way to do.
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